Photo credits

Every plate is a public-domain scientific illustration or historical photograph from Wikimedia Commons, most from the U.S. Fish Commission / Bureau of Fisheries archive (FMIB). RevGen cropped, cleaned, toned (ink on paper) and resized them to a uniform 2:1 plate; some are mirrored so every fish faces left. California halibut, leopard shark and cabezon have no plate yet because we could not find a public-domain illustration of the correct species.

Plate / source fileAuthorLicense
Largemouth bass
FMIB 39190 Large-Mouth Black Bass (Micropterus salmoides).jpeg
Hugh McCormick SmithPublic domain
Channel catfish
FMIB 39192 Spotted Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus).jpeg
Hugh McCormick SmithPublic domain
Chinook salmon
FMIB 41470 Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tschawytscha).jpeg
Unknown authorPublic domain
Dungeness crab (Cancer magister)
FMIB 52684 Cancer magister, the common crab of the Pacific coast; male.jpeg
Augusta Foote ArnoldPublic domain
Green sturgeon (mirrored)
Acipenser medirostris.jpg
Muséum d'histoire NaturellePublic domain
Pacific herring
FMIB 39339 Clupea pallasti Cuvier & Valenciennes.jpeg
Barton Warren Evermann / Edmund Lee GoldsboroughPublic domain
Jacksmelt
FMIB 51879 Blue Smelt or Pez del Rey, Atherinopsis californiensis Girard, San Diego.jpeg
David Starr JordanPublic domain
Lingcod
FMIB 52121 Cultus Cod, Ophidon elongatus (Girard) Sitka, Alaska.jpeg
David Starr JordanPublic domain
Red rock crab (Cancer productus)
FMIB 52685 Cancer productus, the red crab; male.jpeg
Augusta Foote ArnoldPublic domain
Plate shows blue rockfish (Sebastes mystinus)
FMIB 39368 Sebastodes mystinus Jordan & Gilbert.jpeg
Barton Warren Evermann / Edmund Lee GoldsboroughPublic domain
Broadnose sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus), watercolor
Notorynchus cepedianus by Frank Edward Clarke.jpg
Frank Edward ClarkePublic domain
American shad
FMIB 33883 Alosa Sapidissima (Wilson).jpeg
Unknown authorPublic domain
Starry flounder (mirrored)
FMIB 39441 Platichthys stellatus (Pallas).jpeg
Barton Warren Evermann / Edmund Lee GoldsboroughPublic domain
Striped bass
FMIB 39193 Striped bass (Roccus lineatus).jpeg
Hugh McCormick SmithPublic domain
Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus)
FMIB 51942 Blue-Gill, Lepomis pallidus (Mitchill) Potomac River.jpeg
David Starr JordanPublic domain
Plate shows silver/spotfin surf-fish (Hypocritichthys analis), a representative surfperch
FMIB 51614 Silver Surf-fish (Viviparous), Hypocritichthys analis (Agassiz) Monterey.jpeg
David Starr JordanPublic domain
Rainbow trout
FMIB 41459 Rainbow Trout (Salmo irideus).jpeg
Unknown authorPublic domain
White sturgeon (mirrored)
Acipenser transmontanus1.jpg
Josephe HuëtPublic domain