Fish Species Inhabiting Boston Harbor
| Alosa aestivalis | Blueback Herring |
| Alosa pseudoharengus | Alewife |
| Alosa sapidissima | American Shad |
| Ammodytes americanus | Sand Lance |
| Anarhichas lupus | Wolfish |
| Anchoa hepsetus | Striped Anchovy |
| Anchoa mitchilli | Bay Anchovy |
| Anguilla rostrata | American Eel |
| Apeltes qradacus | Fourspine stickleback |
| Brevoortia tyrannus | Atlantic Menhaden |
| Brosme brosme | Cusk |
| Clupea harrengus | Herring |
| Cryptacanthodes maculatus | Wrymouth |
| Cyclopterus lumpus | Lumpfish |
| Cynocion regalis | Weakfish |
| Cyprinus carpio | Carp |
| Esox americanus | Redfin pickerel |
| Fundulus heteroclitus | Mummichog |
| Fundulus majalis | Stripped killifish |
| Gadus morhua | Cod |
| Gasteroteus aculeatus | Threespine stickleback |
| Glyptocephalus cynoglossus | Witch flounder |
| Hemitripterus americanus | American Plaice |
| Lepomis macrochirrus | Bluegill |
| Limanda feruginea | Yellowtail flounder |
| Liparus atlanticus | Sea snail |
| Lophius americanus | Goosefish |
| Macrozoarces americanus | Ocean Pout |
| Menidia beryllina | Inland Silverside |
| Menidia menidia | Atlantic Silverside |
| Merluccius bilinearis | Silver Hake/Whiting |
| Microgadus tomcod | Tomcod |
| Morone americanus | White perch |
| Morone saxatilis | Striped Bass |
| Mustelus canis | Smooth dogfish |
| Myxocephalus aeneus | Grubby |
| Myxocephalus octodecemspinosus | Shorthorn sculpin |
| Osmerus mordax | Rainbow Smelt |
| Paralichthys dentatus | Summer flounder |
| Paralichthys oblongus | Fourspot flounder |
| Peprilus triacanthus | Butterfish |
| Pollachius virens | Pollack |
| Pomatomus saltatrix | Bluefish |
| Prionotus carolinus | Northern Searobin |
| Pseudopleuronectes americanus | Winter Flounder |
| Pungitis pungitis | Ninespine stickleback |
| Raja erinacea | Little Skate |
| Raja ocellatus | Winter Skate |
| Winter Skate | Brown trout |
| Scomber scombrus | Atlantic Mackerel |
| Scopthalamus aquosus | Windowpane flounder |
| Squalus acanthias | Spiny dogfish |
| Sygnathus fuscus | Northern pipefish |
| Tautogolabrus adspersus | Cunner |
| Urophycis chuss | Red hake |
| Urophycis tenuis | White hake |
All contents © Douglas Kornfeld 1992- unless otherwise noted.