Fish living in the Pacific Ocean

Albacore

Thunnus alalunga

The albacore has long pectoral fins that reach a point behind the anal fin, as well …

Amberjack, Greater

Seriola dumerili

This fish is greenish-blue to almost purple or brown above the lateral line and silvery below …

Barracuda, Pacific

Sphyraena argentea

The Pacific barracuda has a slender build, a conical head, a long thin snout, and large …

Bass, Kelp (Calico)

Paralabrax clathratus

A hardy fish with a characteristic elongated and compressed shape. It has a notch between the …

Bonito, Pacific

Sarda chiliensis

It is similar in size and coloration to the Atlantic bonito. The Pacific bonito differs from …

Bumper, Atlantic; Bumper, Pacific

Chloroscombrus chrysurus; Chloroscombrus orqueta

Although the bumper has a low back, it has an elongated belly and a very slender …

Capelin

Mallotus villosus

The capelin has a large mouth with a lower jaw that extends below each eye. Males …

Chub, Bermuda

Kyphosus sectatrix

Bermuda Chub has an egg-shaped profile, short head and small mouth. From the edge of the …

Cod, Pacific

The Pacific cod, characteristic of the cod family, has three distinct dorsal fins, two anal fins, …

Croaker, White

Genyonemus lineatus

The body of the white croaker is elongated and compressed. The head is oblong and bluntly …

Dogfish, Spiny

Squalus acanthias

The body is elongated and slender. Head is pointed. Coloration from above from slate-gray to brownish, …

Dolphin, Common

Coryphaena hippurus

The body is slender and streamlined, tapering sharply from head to tail. Large males, called bulls, …

Dolphin, Pompano

Coryphaena equiselis

This species is almost identical to the common dolphin in coloring and general shape, although it …

Eulachon

Thaleichthys pacificus

The eulachon is a small, slender fish, with a spiny fat fin just in front of …

Flounder, Starry

Platichthys stellatus

The starry flounder belongs to the right-eyed flounder family, but can also be left-eyed. The head …

Flyingfish, Atlantic Flyingfish

Cypselurus heterurus

The flyingfish has normal-length jaws, unlike these other species; the fins are soft rayed and spineless; …

Grouper, Warsaw

Epinephelus nigritus

The Warsaw grouper has a gray-brown to dark red-brown body, sometimes irregularly mottled with several small …

Grunion, California

Leuresthes tenuis

The California grunt has an elongated body and a compressed head. The mouth is small, and …

Guaguanche

Sphyraena guachancho

Silver-olive-brown on top, it has silvery flanks with a yellow-gold band running along the middle of …

Hake, Pacific

Merluccius productus

The body of the Pacific hake is elongated, slender, and moderately compressed. The head is elongated, …

Halibut, California

Paralichthys californicus

The body of the California halibut is oblong and compressed. The head is small and the …

Halibut, Pacific

Hippoglossus stenolepis

Halibut are usually dextral, meaning both eyes are on the right side of the head. Its …

Herring, Pacific

Clupea pallasii

The body is prostrate, compressed from the sides, covered with easily drooping scales. Abdomen rounded, ventral …

Jack, Almaco

Seriola rivoliana

The body and fins may be a uniform dark brown, dark bluish-green, bronze, or metallic gray, …