Links to info on Gt Lakes Fish

Pictures of most species are at : http://www.glfc.org/fishtank.htm

If there is no other link is provided via the fish name below go to the Wisconsin Sea Grant Pages which contains a database on most Gt Lakes Fish containing fairly detailed info as well as pictures

The University of Michigan Library and its project partners, the Fish and Mammal Divisions of the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology and the Fungus Collection of the University of Michigan Herbarium, have recently announced a new digital library resource, "Flora and Fauna of the Great Lakes Region," at http://www.lib.umich.edu/programs/greatlakes/index.html This is rather specialised images of museum specimens

Table 1. A list of common and scientific fish names from the Great Lakes

Common name	Scientific name
Alewife	Alosa pseudoharengus
Atlantic salmon	Salmo salar
brook trout	Salvelinus fontinalis
brown bullhead	Ameiurus nebulosus
brown trout	Salmo trutta
burbot	Lota lota
chinook salmon	Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
coho salmon	Oncorhynchus kisutch
cisco - a 'species flock'	Coregonus spp.
deepwater sculpin	Myoxocephalus thompsoni
johnny darter	Etheostoma nigrum
lake herring	Coregonus artedi
lake sturgeon	Acipenser fulvescens
lake trout (there are other forms as well)	Salvelinus namaycush
lake whitefish	Coregonus clupeaformis
muskellunge	Esox masquinongy
northern pike	Esox lucius
Pacific salmon	Oncorhynchus spp.
pink salmon	Oncorhynchus gorbuscha
rainbow smelt	Osmerus mordax
rainbow trout	Oncorhynchus mykiss
ruffe	Gymnocephalus cernuus
salmon	Oncorhynchus spp.
sea lamprey	Petromyzon marinus
siscowet	Salvelinus namaycush siscowet
slimy sculpin	Cottus cognatus
splake (brook trout x lake trout hybrid)	Salvelinus fontinalis x S. namaycush
Spoonhead sculpin	Cottus ricei
stonecat	Noturus flavus
	Percopsis omiscomaycus
walleye	Stizostedion vitreum vitreum
white sucker	Catostomus commersoni
yellow perch	Perca flavescens

Chinook Salmon (US dept Fish & Oceans)