Welcome to fish facts, a collection of information about the wide variety of fish you can find in the state of Maryland. Below are listings of fish and aquatic life that are common to Maryland waters. The individual fact sheets provide identification information as well as where you can find the species, what they eat, breeding patterns and resource concerns.

Before you go fishing, make sure you know the rules and regulations for the individual species, so you know if you are allowed to catch them, how big they must be and when it is legal to do so.
 

Black Drum
Pogonias cromis

Black Sea Bass
Centropristis striatus

Shellfish

You can find more information on these species and others at the following link with the DNR's Chesapeake and Coastal Bay Life : http://www.dnr.state.md.us/bay/cblife/fish/index.html

The Fisheries Service also has information available online that provides survey data of juveniles of various species from the striped bass seine survey. Please check out the information at: http://www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/juvindex/index.html

Interested in the Snakehead?
Northern Snakehead
Channa argus
Try these three links below for more information

• Comparison of snakeheads to other similar species Prepared by Virginia Department of Inland Game and Fisheries
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Invasive Species Program: Snakeheads - The Newest Aquatic Invader
  Prepared by USGS July 2002
• Wanted Poster for the Snakehead