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WorldOilfish
Deep-sea snake mackerel with oily, laxative flesh.Other · Open ocean
🇹🇭 Thailand and 4 moreTinfoil barb
A large Southeast Asian freshwater fish known for its red fins and silvery body.Carp · Rivers and lakes · 1853
🇳🇴 Norway and 2 moreAtlantic mackerel
Fast-swimming, oily fish of the North AtlanticTuna · Coasts and shelves · 1758
WorldToothfish
A genus of large marine fish from the Southern Hemisphere, known commercially as Chilean sea bass.Other · Deep sea · 1898
WorldCrocodile shark
Smallest living mackerel shark with large eyes and oily liverShark · Open ocean · 1936
WorldSlender tuna
A southern ocean tuna with oily flesh and a slender build.Tuna · Open ocean
🇷🇺 RussiaComephorus
Two species of pelagic sculpins endemic to Lake Baikal in Russia.Other · Rivers and lakes · 1800
WorldSchool shark
A temperate houndshark valued for liver oil and meat.Shark · Coasts and shelves
EuropeRabbit fish
Deep-water cartilaginous fish with a rabbit-like headOther · Coasts and shelves
🇺🇸 United States and 4 moreCaribbean reef shark
Large requiem shark of western Atlantic coral reefsShark · Coasts and shelves · 1876
WorldKitefin shark
A deep-sea squaliform shark known for its bioluminescence and large oil-filled liver.Shark · Deep sea · 1788
WorldBigeye thresher
Deep-diving shark with huge eyes and a long tail.Shark · Open ocean · 1840
WorldGreat hammerhead
The largest hammerhead shark, known for its wide cephalofoil and critically endangered status.Shark · Coasts and shelves · 1837
South AsiaWinghead shark
A small hammerhead with an exceptionally wide cephalofoil.Shark · Coasts and shelves · 1822
🇹🇷 Turkey and 4 moreAnchovy
Small, oily forage fish found in oceans and some rivers worldwide.Herring · Coasts and shelves
🇺🇸 United States and 3 moreMenhaden
Small silver forage fish that filter plankton and support marine food webs.Herring · Coasts and shelves
WorldBluefish
Aggressive marine pelagic fish found in temperate and subtropical waters worldwide.Other · Coasts and shelves
WorldEscolar
Deep-ocean fish with high oil content often mislabelled as tuna.Other · Coasts and shelves
🇮🇳 India and 3 moreGoldspotted grenadier anchovy
A small coastal anchovy of the western Indo-Pacific.Herring · Coasts and shelves
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreGulf menhaden
Small filter-feeding fish of the Gulf of MexicoHerring · Coasts and shelves
🇦🇺 AustraliaAustralian herring
A silver coastal fish from southern Australia.Other · Coasts and shelves · 1831
WorldCod
Demersal fish of the genus Gadus, valued for food and oil.Cod · Coasts and shelves · 1758
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreNorthern red snapper
A large, red reef fish of the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic.Perch-like · Coasts and shelves · 1860
WorldSardine
Small, oily forage fish in the herring suborder Clupeoidei.Herring · Coasts and shelves
🇺🇸 United States and 4 moreSmelt
Small fish of the northern hemisphere known for spring runs and culinary traditions.Other · Rivers and lakes
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Smelt: Surf_Smelt,_Pond_smelt.jpg : Drawing by H. L. Todd, NOAA's Historic Fi, Public domain, source
- Patagonian toothfish: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Northern red snapper: Geeklikepi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Atlantic mackerel: Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Crocodile shark: Chris_huh, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Comephorus: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- School shark: Anonymous Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Tinfoil barb: Wibowo Djatmiko ( Wie146 ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Rabbit fish: MAREANO/Havforskingsinstituttet, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Oilfish: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Caribbean reef shark: Albert kok, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kitefin shark: Chris_huh, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bigeye thresher: PIRO-NOAA Observer Program, Public domain, source
- Great hammerhead: Josh Hallett, CC BY 2.0, source
- Winghead shark: Sir Francis Day, Public domain, source
- Anchovy: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Menhaden: Thomas William Smillie, Public domain, source
- Bluefish: SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEF, Public domain, source
- Escolar: Allen Shimada, NOAA NMFS OST, Public domain, source
- Gulf menhaden: Joel boumje, Public domain, source
- Goldspotted grenadier anchovy: BEDO (Thailand), CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Australian herring: Kare, Public domain, source
- Sardine: TANAKA Juuyoh (田中十洋), CC BY 2.0, source
- Cod: Unknown author, Public domain, source