This site is dedicated to providing photographs and basic biological and ecological information on fishes of the Canadian Atlantic. You can search for a particular fish using the search function or through the classification function. Both common and latin names can be used in the search. Our reference section includes a list of all references used to create this site.Also, click on our Glossary link to look up any terms you are not familiar with.

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How to cite this work:
Welshman, D., S. Kohler, J. Black and L. VanGuelpen. 2003. An atlas of
distributions of Canadian Atlantic fishes.
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/FishAtlas March 2003.