Oregon’s native fish can be found in a wide diversity of habitats from large, tidal rivers to small, mountain streams to desert springs bubbly up from the ground. And, they display a range of life history strategies. We still have much to learn about these amazing creatures.
The following list contains the native fish species known to occur in Oregon. Subspecies are not listed unless that is the only representative of the species. They are displayed by taxonomic group and alphabetically sorted within each group.
Visit the Native Fish Investigations and Corvallis Research Lab websites to learn more about ongoing research.
| Lamprey |
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Salmon and trout |
Klamath lamprey |
Bull trout |
Miller Lake lamprey |
Chinook Salmon |
Pacific lamprey |
Chum salmon |
Pit-Klamath brook lamprey |
Coho salmon |
River lamprey |
Cutthroat trout |
Western Brook lamprey |
mountain whitefish |
|
Rainbow trout/Redband trout/Steelhead |
| Sturgeon |
|
Green sturgeon |
Troutperch |
White sturgeon |
Sand roller |
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| Minnows |
Cods and burbot |
Alvord chub |
burbot |
blue chub |
|
Borax Lake chub |
Stickleback |
California roach (subspecies "Pit roach" in Oregon) |
threespine stickleback |
Chiselmouth |
|
Lahontan redside |
Sculpins |
leopard dace |
coastrange sculpin |
longnose dace |
Columbia sculpin |
northern pikeminnow |
Klamath Lake sculpin |
Oregon chub |
Malheur sculpin |
peamouth |
marbled sculpin |
redside shiner |
Margined sculpin |
speckled dace |
mottled sculpin |
tui chub |
Paiute sculpin |
Umatilla dace |
Pit sculpin |
Umpqua chub |
prickly sculpin |
Umpqua dace |
reticulate sculpin |
Umpqua pikeminnow |
riffle sculpin |
|
shorthead sculpin |
| Suckers |
Slender sculpin |
bridgelip sucker |
torrent sculpin |
Klamath largescale sucker |
|
Klamath smallscale sucker |
|
largescale sucker |
|
Lost River sucker |
|
Modoc sucker |
|
mountain sucker |
|
Sacramento sucker (subspecies "Goose Lake sucker" in Oregon) |
|
shortnose sucker |
|
Tahoe sucker |
|
Warner sucker |
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