alewife

Alosa pseudolarengus
- See alewife
and gaspereau

 

American plaice

Hippoglossoides platessoides
- See American plaice
(sometimes called plaice or flounder)

 

American shad

Alosa sapidissima
- See American shad


 

Atlantic silverside

(fr: capucette)

 

Atlantic tomcod

(Atlantic tomcod - tomcod – winter cod - frostfish – tommy cod – snig - tommycod)
(fr: Poulamon Atlantique - Petite morue – Loche – Poisson des chenaux)

 

Atlantic wolffish

Anarhichar lupus
 

- See large demersals


 

bar clam

(fr: mactre ou palourde)

 

barnacle

(fr: balanes)

 

blueback herring

Alosa aestivalis (fr: alose d'été)
 

capelin

(fr: capelan)

 

cod - Atlantic cod

(fr: morue)

Gadus morhua
- See Atlantic cod

 

crab - rock crab

(fr: crabe commun)

Cancer irroratus
(angl. Rock crab )
- See info in French only at this time: crab

 

eel

Anguilla rostrata

American eel
- Atlantic eel – common eel – freshwater eel – silver eel – easgann - elver)
(fr: anguille)

 

gaspereau

(Alewife - mulhaden – gray herring – blear-eyed herring – spring herring – golden shad – seth – green shad – skipjack – bang – racer kyak ou kiack – gaspereau – ellwife – branch herring – sawbelly – wall-eyed herring – big-eyed herring – glut herring – grayback)
(fr: gaspareau)

 

haddock

Melanogrammus aeglefinus
- See haddock


 

hake - white hake, silver hake

(fr: merluche - merluche blanche, merlu argenté)
 

halibut - Atlantic halibut

(fr: turbot)
Hippoglossus hippoglossus
- See Atlantic halibut

 

herring, spring herring, fall herring

(fr: hareng)

- See herring


 

lobster

Homarus americanus (fr: homard)

- See Atlantic lobster


 

mackerel

(fr: maquereau)

- See herring and mackerel



 

mussel

(fr: moule(mouque))

 

oyster

(fr: huître)

 

periwinkle

(fr: bigorneau - Acadian : borlicoco, bourlicoco, bourricoco)

 

pollock

Pollachius virens

 

redfish

(ocean perch) (Sebastes sp.)

 

rock crab

(fr: crabe commun)

 

salmon

(fr: saumon)

 

sand dollar

(fr: dollar de sable)

 

sand lances (sand eels)

(fr. lançon (anguille de sable) )

 

scallops

(fr: pétoncle)

 

sea urchin

(fr: oursin)

 

skate

(fr: raie)

- See Commercial Quota Reports


 

smelt

(rainbow smelt – smelt – American smelt – leefish – freshwater smelt – frost fish)
(fr: éperlan (épelan))

 

snow crab

(fr: crabe des neiges)


- See snow crab

 

soft shell clam

(fr: mye (coque))

 

sole

(fr: sole ou plie)

 

spiny dogfish

(fr: aguillat commun)
- See spiny dogfish


 

squid

(fr: calmar)

- See squid

 

starfish

(fr: étoile de mer)

 

striped bass

morone saxatilis
- See striped bass
(striper bass – rockfish)
(fr: bar rayé)

 

silver hake

Merluccius bilinearis

 

tuna(bluefin)

(fr: thon (thon rouge))

 

trout

(sea trout): salvelinus fontinalis
(fr: truite de mer, truite – truite moucheté)
Non-marine trout sub-species: brook trout – Eastern brook trout – speckled trout – aurora trout – brookie – square-tail – speckled char – common brook trout – mud trout - coaster – eastern speckled trout – native trout – mountain trout – breac – squaretailed trout

 

whelk

(fr: buccin (bourgault))

 

white hake

Urophycis tenuis
- See white hake

 

witch flounder

Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
- See witch flounder


 

Winter flounder

Pseudopleuronectes americanus

 

yellowtail flounder

Limanda ferruginea
See yellowtail flounder

 

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Algaes:

fucus

(rock weed)

 

laminaria

(kelp)

 

eel grass

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See also
- Fisheries Atlas of Canada from AAC - New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island