Maritime Provinces Fishery Regulations (SOR/93-55)

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Regulations are current to 2025-10-14 and last amended on 2025-03-01. Previous Versions

SCHEDULE I(Subsection 2(2))

Common and Scientific Names of Fish

Item	Column I	Column II
Item	Common Name	Scientific Name
1	Atlantic whitefish	Coregonus huntsmani
2	Arctic char	Salvelinus alpinus
3	Atlantic sturgeon	Acipenser oxyrhynchus
4	Bar clam	Spisula solidissima
5	Bay quahaug	Mercenaria mercenaria
6	Brook trout (Speckled trout)	Salvelinus fontinalis
7	Brown trout	Salmo trutta
8	Bullhead	Ictalurus nebulosus
8.1	Burbot	Lota lota
9	Carp	Cyprinus carpio
9.1	Chain pickerel	Esox niger
10	Eel	Anguilla rostrata
11	Gaspereau	Alosa pseudoharengus and Alosa aestivalis
12	Goldfish	Carassius auratus
13	Lake trout	Salvelinus namaycush
14	Lake whitefish	Coregonus clupeaformis
15	Landlocked salmon (Ouananiche)	Salmo salar
16	Minnows	Families: Cyprinidae, Cyprinodontidae and Gasterosteidae
16.1	Muskellunge	Esox masquinongy
17	Mussels	Mytilus edulis and Modiolusmodiolus
18	Oysters	Crassostrea virginica and Ostrea edulis
19	[Repealed, SOR/2001-452, s. 32]
20	Rainbow trout	Oncorhynchus mykiss
21	Razor clam	Enis directus
22	Round whitefish	Prosopium cylindraceum
23	Salmon	Salmo salar
24	Shad	Alosa sapidissima
25	Shortnose sturgeon	Acipenser brevirostrum
26	Silversides	Menidia menidia
27	Smallmouth bass (Black bass)	Micropterus dolomieui
28	Smelt	Osmerus mordax
29	Soft-shell clam	Mya arenaria
30	Striped bass	Morone saxatilis and Roccus saxatilis
31	Sunfish	Lepomis spp.
32	Tomcod	Microgadus tomcod
33	White perch	Morone americana
34	Yellow perch	Perca flavescens