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Tubenose Goby

Tubenose Goby

Tubenose Goby Proterorhinus semilunaris  Home 9 Invaders 9 Category: Fish Background The Tubenose Goby is a small, bottom-dwelling invasive fish. Native to rivers and estuaries of the Black and Caspian sea basins, it was first discovered in North...
Zander

Zander

Zander Sander lucioperca  Home 9 Invaders 9 Category: Fish What is Ontario Doing? To prevent this unwanted invader from coming into the province, Ontario has regulated Zander as prohibited under the Invasive Species Act, 2015.  For more information...
Wels Catfish

Wels Catfish

Wels Catfish Silurus glanis  Home 9 Search query for: fish What is Ontario Doing? To prevent this unwanted invader from coming into the province, Ontario has regulated Wels Catfish as prohibited under the Invasive Species Act, 2015. For more information...
Tench

Tench

Tench Tinca tinca  Home 9 Invaders 9 Category: Fish What is Ontario Doing? To prevent the further spread and introduction of this unwanted invader in the province, Ontario has regulated Tench as prohibited under the Invasive Species Act. For more...
Stone Moroko

Stone Moroko

Stone Moroko Pseudorasbora parva  Home 9 Invaders 9 Category: Fish What is Ontario Doing? To prevent this unwanted invader from coming into the province, Ontario has regulated Stone Moroko as prohibited under the Invasive Species Act, 2015 . For more...
Sea Lamprey

Sea Lamprey

Sea Lamprey Petromyzon marinus  Home 9 Invaders 9 Category: Fish Background The Sea Lamprey is a primitive, eel-like fish native to the northern Atlantic Ocean and the Baltic, western Mediterranean, and Adriatic seas. Sea Lampreys invaded the Great...
Rudd

Rudd

Rudd Scardinius erythrophthalmus  Home 9 Invaders 9 Category: Fish ( Page 2 ) Background Rudd is an invasive fish native to Europe that has been found in scattered locations in the lower Great Lakes. A member of the minnow family, the fish was...
Round Goby

Round Goby

Round Goby Neogobius melanostomus  Home 9 Category: Invaders ( Page 9 ) Background The Round Goby is a small, bottom-dwelling invasive fish, native to the Black and Caspian seas in eastern Europe. It was first found in North America in 1990, in the St....
Prussian Carp

Prussian Carp

Prussian Carp Carassius gibelio  Home 9 Category: Invaders ( Page 9 ) What is Ontario Doing? To prevent this unwanted invader from coming into the province, Ontario has regulated Prussian Carp as prohibited under the Invasive Species Act, 2015 . For more...
Rainbow Smelt

Rainbow Smelt

Rainbow Smelt Osmerus mordax  Home 9 Category: Invaders ( Page 9 ) Background Rainbow Smelt is a predatory fish native to the north Atlantic coastal regions of North America as well as a few lakes in the Ottawa Valley in the St. Lawrence River watershed....
Northern Snakehead

Northern Snakehead

Northern Snakehead Channa argus  Home 9 2021 9 February What is Ontario Doing? To prevent this unwanted invader from coming into the province, Ontario has regulated all 28 species of snakehead, including Northern Snakehead, as prohibited under...
Goldfish

Goldfish

Goldfish Carassius auratus  Home 9 Category: Invaders ( Page 9 ) Background The Goldfish is a well-known species of fish that has been sold world-wide for use in aquariums, ponds, and water gardens for hundreds of years. Native to eastern Asia, Goldfish...