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Fish Species of the Atlantic Ocean
The second-largest ocean, bounded by the Americas to the west and Europe and Africa to the east — from the Arctic to the Antarctic, supporting major global fisheries.
5,070
Total Species
361
Threatened
1,000
Edible
29
Countries
Tarpon snook
Centropomus pectinatus
LC
🔄 Diadromous
Tete sea catfish
Ariopsis seemanni
LC
🔄 Diadromous
Threadfin shad
Dorosoma petenense
LC
🔄 Diadromous
Three-spined stickleback
Gasterosteus aculeatus
LC
🔄 Diadromous
Twaite shad
Alosa fallax
LC
🔄 Diadromous
Vendace
Coregonus albula
LC
🔄 Diadromous
Violet goby
Gobioides broussonnetii
LC
🔄 Diadromous
Walter's toadfish
Batrachoides waltersi
LC
🔄 Diadromous
White mullet
Mugil curema
LC
🔄 Diadromous
White perch
Morone americana
LC
🔄 Diadromous
White sturgeon
Acipenser transmontanus
VU
🔄 Diadromous
Wrestling halfbeak
Dermogenys pusilla
DD
🔄 Diadromous
Yellow fin mojarra
Gerres cinereus
LC
🔄 Diadromous
Yellowfin goby
Acanthogobius flavimanus
LC
🔄 Diadromous
Yucatan pupfish
Cyprinodon artifrons
LC
🔄 Diadromous