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CATEGORIES OF FISH SPECIES
GAME FISH
Sport Fish burbot largemouth bass redear sunfish spotted bass
all sunfish hybrids channel catfish muskellunge rock bass striped bass
American eel chinook salmon northern pike sauger striped bass hybrid (wiper)
black crappie cutthroat trout orangespotted sunfish saugeye tiger muskellunge
blue catfish flathead catfish paddlefish shovelnose sturgeon walleye
bluegill goldeye pumpkinseed skipjack herring white bass
brook trout grass pickerel rainbow trout smallmouth bass white crappie
brown trout green sunfish
Panfish bluegill orangespotted sunfish redear sunfish white crappie
all sunfish hybrids green sunfish pumpkinseed rock bass yellow perch
black crappie
Sunfish bluegill orangespotted sunfish pumpkinseed redear sunfish
all sunfish hybrids green sunfish
Commercial Fish black bullhead freshwater drum yellow perch
Baitfish * devil crayfish goldfish red shiner suckermouth minnow
alewife emerald shiner longnose dace * ringed crayfish * barred salamander
bigmouth shiner fathead minnow * northern crayfish river shiner white sucker
brassy minnow gizzard shad * papershell crayfish sand shiner * amphibians and
crustaceans covered under
baitfish regulations
creek chub golden shiner plains killifish stoneroller
THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES
Illegal to possess: finscale dace northern redbelly dace pearl dace Topeka shiner
blacknose shiner lake sturgeon pallid sturgeon sturgeon chub
NONGAME FISH
Includes all species not on any of the above lists.
