Arctic Refuge Fish List

Freshwater Species



____ Sheefish (Stenodus leucichthys)

____ Round whitefish (Prosopium cylindraceum)

____ Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush)

____ Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus)

____ Northern pike (Esox lucius)

____ Lake chub (Couesius plumbeus)

____ Longnose sucker (Catostomus catostomus)

____ Trout-perch (Percopsis omiscomaycus)

____ Burbot (Lota lota)

____ Ninespine stickleback (Pungitius pungitius)

____ Slimy sculpin (Cottus cognatus)

____ Threespine stickleback (Gasterasteus aculeatus)

____ Alaska blackfish (Dallia pectoralis)

____ Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus)



Anadromous Species 

(* denotes freshwater-only form of species also)

____ Least cisco* (Coregonus sardinella)

____ Arctic cisco (Coregonus autumnalis)

____ Broad whitefish* (Coregonus nasus)

____ Humpback whitefish* (Coregonus pidschian)

____ Pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha)

____ Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)

____ Chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta)

____ Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)

____ Rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax)

____ Arctic lamprey* (Lampetra japonica)

____ Dolly Varden* (Salvelinus malma)



Marine Species



____ Pacific herring (Clupea harengus Pallas)

____ Capelin (Mallotus villosus)

____ Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida)

____ Saffron cod (Eleginus gracilis)

____ Fourhorn sculpin (Myoxocephalus quadricornis)

____ Arctic sculpin (Myoxocephalus scorpioides)

____ Kelp snailfish (Liparis tunicatus)

____ Pacific sand lance (Ammodytes hexapterus)

____ Slender eelblenny (Lumpenus fabricii)

____ Stout eelblenny (Lumpenus medius)

____ Eelpouts (Lycodes spp.)

____ Arctic flounder (Pleuromectes glacialis)

____ Starry flounder (Platichthys stellatus)

____ Arctic hookear sculpin (Artediellus scaber)

____ Arctic staghorn sculpin (Gymmocanthus tricuspis)

____ Whitespotted greenling (Hexagrammus stelleri)

____ Bering wolffish (Anarchichas orientalis)



[Fish list updated September 2010]

a man bringing in a fish in a net
We sat down with fish biologist Randy Brown to talk about the Dolly Varden of Alaska's North Slope/Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.