Fishing

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• Bridle Shiner

  This easily overlooked minnow, the bridle shiner, is apparently declining throughout much of its range.

• Common Carp

  Learn all about common carp, one of Connecticut's biggest and hardest fighting fish!

• Tench

  An esteemed food and sport fish in Europe, it's unclear how the tench will affect Connecticut's freshwater ecosystems.

• Cutlip Minnow

  Cutlip minnows are known to sometimes knock out and eat the eyes of other fishes.

• Minnows and Carps

  Minnows are an extremely diverse family with abundant representatives over most of the world. Learn about all the minnows who call Connecticut home!

• Warmouth

  Warmouths can be distinguished from other sunfishes by feeling for the patch of small teeth on the tongue.

• Hogchoker

  Apparently during Colonial times, “hogchokers” fed to pigs proved difficult to swallow.

• Striped Mullet

  Striped mullet support important commercial fisheries in Southern states. Smaller fish are sold as bait.

• Sticklebacks

  Four native stickleback species are found predominantly in marine and sometimes fresh waters of Connecticut. The males build and guard nests made out of aquatic vegetation, and they become darker and/or more brightly colored during the spawning season.

• Table of Contents

  This pictorial guide contains interesting and useful information about all of Connecticut's fascinating freshwater fishes.

• Freshwater Eels

  Learn about freshwater eels, Connecticut's only catadromous fish!

• Lampreys

  Learn more about this primitive family of fishes that have a sucking disc in place of a jaw.

• Atlantic Salmon Management Areas

  Atlantic salmon management and recreational fishing

• Sunfishes and Freshwater Basses

  There are eleven sunfish species in Connecticut, only three of which are native.

• Volunteer Opportunities with the Fisheries Programs

  Volunteer opportunities for fisheries programs