U.S. Food & Drug Administration Seafood Products Research Center Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia

Genus Sorted by Alpabetical Order, (Faa - Jzz)

Thumbnail	Seafood List (Common, Genus/Species, Market)	Occurence (AFS)	Occurence (FAO)
	Pacific Cod Gadus macrocephalus Cod (Alaska Cod)	P	Found around the rim of the North Pacific, from the Yellow Sea to the Bering Strait, along the Aleutians, and south to about Los Angeles. Rather rare in the southern part of its range.
	Atlantic Cod Gadus morhua Cod	A	Cape Hatteras to Ungava Bay along the N. American coast; east and west coasts of Greenland, extending for variable distances to the north, depending upon climate trends; around Iceland; coasts of Europe from the Bay of Biscay to the Barents Sea, including the region around Bear Island.
	Gray Sole Glyptocephalus cynoglossus Sole (Flounder)	A
Flathead Sole	Flathead Sole Hippoglossoides elassodon Sole (Flounder)	P
Pacific Halibut	Pacific Halibut Hippoglossus stenolepis Halibut	P
	Orange Roughy Hoplostethus atlanticus Roughy, Orange	Atlantic Ocean, Indian and West Pacific Ocean to New Zealand
	Blue Catfish Ictalurus furcatus Catfish	Freshwater
	Channel Catfish Ictalurus punctatus Catfish	Freshwater
	Shortfin Mako Shark Isurus oxyrinchus Shark, Mako	A-P	Western Atlantic: Gulf of Maine to southern Brazil and ? northern Argentina, including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean. Eastern Atlantic: Norway, British Isles and Mediterranean to Ivory Coast, Ghana and S. Africa. Indo-West Pacific: S. Africa and Red Sea to Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, USSR (Primorsk Kray), Australia (Queensland, Tasmania, South and western Australia, Victoria, New South Wales), New Zealand, New Caledonia and Fiji. Central Pacific: From south of Aleutian Isles to Society Isles, incl. Hawaiian Isles. Eastern Pacific: southern California and exceptionally Washington to central Chile.
Longfin Mako Shark	Longfin Mako Shark Isurus paucus Shark, Mako	A	Western North Atlantic: Florida, Gulf Stream off eastern USA, Cuba. Eastern North Atlantic: Guinea, Ghana, ? Cape Verde Isles. Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar. Central Pacific: Near Phoenix Isles and north of Hawaiian Isles.