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This is a list of freshwater fish pursued by recreational anglers.

• Alligator gar
• American paddlefish
• Amur catfish
• Amur pike
• Arapaima
• Arctic grayling
• Asian arowana
• Asp (fish)
• Atlantic salmon
• Atlantic sturgeon
• Australian bass
• Australian grayling
• Bagarius yarrelli
• Barramundi
• Basa (fish)
• Bayad
• Beluga (sturgeon)
• Biara
• Black arowana
• Black bullhead
• Black carp
• Black crappie
• Blicca bjoerkna
• Blue catfish
• Bluegill
• Boulengerella cuvieri
• Bowfin
• Brachymystax lenok
• Brook trout
• Brown bullhead
• Brown trout
• Bull trout
• Burbot
• Chain pickerel
• Channa marulius
• Channa micropeltes
• Channa striata
• Channel catfish
• Chinese sturgeon
• Chinook salmon
• Chum salmon
• Cichla intermedia
• Cichla monoculus
• Cichla ocellaris
• Cichla orinocensis
• Cichla temensis
• Clanwilliam yellowfish
• Clarias gariepinus
• Clown featherback
• Coastal cutthroat trout
• Coho salmon
• Colorado pikeminnow
• Common barbel
• Common bream
• Cutthroat trout
• Dolly Varden trout
• Eastern freshwater cod
• Eel-tailed catfish
• Elopichthys bambusa
• European perch
• Firewood catfish
• Flathead catfish
• Florida gar
• Giant barb
• Giant kōkopu
• Giant pangasius
• Gilded catfish
• Golden mandarin fish
• Golden perch
• Goldeye
• Green sturgeon
• Green sunfish
• Gymnarchus
• Hemibagrus wyckioides
• Hepsetus cuvieri
• Hiodon tergisus
• Hoplias aimara
• Hoplias malabaricus
• Huchen
• Hucho taimen
• Humpback mahseer
• Hybrid striped bass
• Hydrocynus goliath
• Hydrocynus tanzaniae
• Hydrocynus vittatus
• Hydrolycus armatus
• Hydrolycus tatauaia
• Ide (fish)
• Iridescent shark
• Japanese sturgeon
• Kaluga (fish)
• Kampango
• Lake sturgeon
• Largemouth bass
• Largemouth yellowfish
• Longnose gar
• Macquarie perch
• Mayaheros urophthalmus
• Mekong giant catfish
• Moggel
• Mongolian redfin
• Mooneye
• Murray cod
• Muskellunge
• Nelma
• Nile perch
• Northern pike
• Northern pikeminnow
• Northern snakehead
• Oncorhynchus masou
• Oxydoras niger
• Pangasius pangasius
• Papermouth
• Parachromis dovii
• Payara
• Phalacronotus apogon
• Pinirampus
• Pink salmon
• Porthole shovelnose catfish
• Predatory carp
• Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum
• Pseudoplatystoma reticulatum
• Pseudoplatystoma tigrinum
• Pumpkinseed
• Rainbow trout
• Red-bellied piranha
• Redbreast sunfish
• Redear sunfish
• Redeye piranha
• Redhook myleus
• Redtail catfish
• Rita rita
• River blackfish
• Rock bass
• Russian sturgeon
• Sacramento pikeminnow
• Sakhalin taimen
• Salminus brasiliensis
• Salmo marmoratus
• Salmo obtusirostris
• Salvelinus leucomaenis
• Sauger
• Scleropages jardinii
• Siberian sturgeon
• Silonia silondia
• Silurus soldatovi
• Silver arowana
• Siniperca chuatsi
• Sleepy cod
• Smallmouth bass
• Smallmouth buffalo
• Smallmouth yellowfish
• Sockeye salmon
• Sperata seenghala
• Spotted bass
• Spotted galaxias
• Squalius cephalus
• Sterlet
• Striped bass
• Tambaqui
• Tench
• Texas cichlid
• Tiger muskellunge
• Tor putitora
• Tor tor
• Trout cod
• Vundu
• Wallago attu
• Walleye
• Warmouth
• Wels catfish
• White bass
• White crappie
• White perch
• White sturgeon
• Yellow bass
• Yellow bullhead
• Yellow perch
• Zander^[1]

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