List of Species Caught by the VIMS Bluefish Seine Survey
(in descending order of number of fish caught)
Common Name
Atlantic silverside
bay anchovy
striped anchovy
rough silverside
Atlantic menhaden
striped killifish
Atlantic thread herring
Atlantic herring
spot
white mullet
mummichog
Florida pompano
southern kingfish
silver perch
northern kingfish
bluefish
northern pipefish
Atlantic needlefish
striped mullet
kingfish
inland silverside
halfbeak
gulf kingfish
permit
banded killifish
striped bass
inshore lizardfish
Atlantic croaker
northern puffer
weakfish
mullet
sheepshead minnow
summer flounder
spotfin mojarra
scup
white perch
crevalle jack
tilefish
black seabass
northern searobin
Atlantic spadefish
pigfish
hogchoker
winter flounder
black drum
red drum
Spanish mackerel
blackcheek tonguefish
northern sennet
pinfish
tautog
silver jenny
blueback herring
smallmouth flounder
lookdown
northern stargazer
lined seahorse
striped burrfish
gizzard shad
rainwater killifish
planehead filefish
windowpane
oyster toadfish
spotted seatrout
pipefish
seaboard goby
alewife
feather blenny
naked goby
skilletfish
bluespotted cornetfish
striped searobin
southern stingray
bluntnose stingray
bighead searobin
banded drum
harvestfish
sheepshead
spotted hake
orange filefish
spottedfin tonguefish
cownose ray
Atlantic bumper
gray snapper
threespine stickleback
smooth butterfly ray
star drum
butterfish
Atlantic stingray
blue runner
banded rudderfish
striped cusk-eel
hickory shad
American shad
green goby
clearnose skate
agujon
rough scad
scaled sardine
striped blenny
sandbar shark
smooth dogfish
spiny butterfly ray
flat needlefish
gag
fringed flounder
chain pipefish
cusk-eel
specimen unidentified
cobia
Atlantic mackerel
pollock
American eel
fourspine stickleback
dusky pipefish
silversides
bullnose ray
conger eel
wolf eelpout
spotted whiff
horse-eye jack
threadfin shad
palometa
mottled mojarra
spottail flounder
bay whiff