Approved Aquatic Species List

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Fishes

Alligator Gar (Lepisosteus spatula)
American eel (Anguilla rostrata)
Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
Bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis)
Bigmouth buffalo (Ictiobus cyprinellus)
Black bullhead (Ameirus melas)
Black crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus)
Blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus)
Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus)
Blue sucker (Cycleptus elongatus)
Bluntnose minnow (Pimephales notatus)
Bowfin (Amia calva)
Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis)
Brown bullhead (Ameirus nebulosus)
Brown trout (Salmo trutta)
Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)
Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)
Common carp (Cyprinus carpio)
Cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii)
Fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas)
Flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris)
Freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens)
Gizzard shad (Dorosoma cepedianum)
Golden shiner (Notemigonus crysoleucas)
Golden trout (Oncorhynchus aquabonita)
Goldfish (Carassius auratus)
Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella)
Green sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus)
Largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides)
Longear sunfish (Lepomis megalotis)
Longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus)
Mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis)
Muskellunge (Esox masquinongy)
Northern pike (Esox lucius)
Orangespotted sunfish (Lepomis humilis)
Paddlefish (Polyodon spathula)
Pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus)
Quillback (Carpiodes cyprinus)
Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
Redear sunfish (Lepomis microlophus)
River carpsucker (Carpiodes carpio)
Sauger (Sander canadensis)
Shortnose gar (Lepisosteus platostomus)
Shovelnose sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus platorynchus)
Smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu)
Spotted bass (Micropterus punctulatus)
Spotted gar (Lepisosteus oculatus)
Striped bass (Morone saxatilis)
Threadfin shad (Dorosoma petenense)
Walleye (Sander vitreus)
Warmouth (Lepomis gulosus)
White bass (Morone chrysops)
White crappie (Pomoxis annularis)
White sucker (Catostomus commersoni)
Yellow bullhead (Ameirus natalis)
Yellow perch (Perca flavescens)

Crustaceans

Calico (“Papershell”) crayfish (Orconectes immunis)
Freshwater prawn (Macrabrachi um rosenbergii)
Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei)
Red Swamp crawfish (Procambarus clarkii)
Virile (“Northern”) crayfish (Orconectes virilis)
White River crawfish (Procambarus acutus)

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