IGFA Records

The International Game Fish Association is a not-for-profit organization committed to the conservation of game fish and the promotion of responsible, ethical angling practices through science, education and rule making and record keeping.

The International Game Fish Association (IFGA) maintains records for the following species:

A – Acara paragaio, Acara roi roi, Acara Tucanare, Acara, silver, Aimara, Akahata Akodai, Albacore, Altai Osman, Amberjack, greater Angelfish, grey, Angler, Ara, Aracu Araçu comum, Aracu, fat head Arawana, Arawana, black, Argentine, greater, Asp, Ayamekasago

B – Giant Barb, golden belly Barb, hampala Barb, Java Barb, lagleri Barb, Laos Barb, mad Barb, Smith’s Barb, soldier river Barb, tinfoil Barbel Barbel, comizo hybrid Barenose, bigeye Barracuda, blackfin, great Barracuda, Guinean Barracuda, Hellers Barracuda, Mexican Barracuda, Pacific Barracuda, pickhandle Barracuda, yellowmouth Barramundi Barrelfish Baru Bass, Australian Bass, barred sand Bass, black sea Bass, European Bass, giant sea Bass, goldspotted sand Bass, Guadalupe Bass, Guadalupe x smallmouth Bass, kelp Bass, largemouth Bass, leather Bass, longtail Bass, meanmouth Bass, Ozark Bass, Roanoke Bass, rock Bass, shadow Bass, shoal Bass, smallmouth Bass, splittail Bass, spotted Bass, spotted sand Bass, striped Bass, striped Bass, Suwannee Bass, white Bass, whiterock Bass, yellow Bass, yellow Batfish, orbicular Batfish, tiera Biara Bicuda Bigeye Bigeye, short Binga Blackfish, smallscale Bludger Bluefish Bluegill Bocaccio Boga Bonefish Bonito, Atlantic Bonito, Australian Bonito, leaping Bonito, Pacific Bonito, striped Bowfin Bracanjuva Bream Bream, African red Bream, black Bream, blue-lined large-eye Bream, collared large-eye Bream, twoband Bream, white Brotula, bearded Buffalo, bigmouth Buffalo, black Buffalo, smallmouth Bullhead, black Bullhead, brown Bullhead, yellow Bullseye, longfinned Bullseye, moontail Burbot Buri Burrfish, spotfin Burrfish, spotted Burrfish, striped Butterfish, Brazilian

C – Cabezon Cachorro, peixe Captainfish Caradegato Carp, BIGHEAD Carp, black Carp, common Carp, crucian Carp, grass Carp, silver Carpsucker, river Catfish, Amazon Sailfin Catfish, amur Catfish, blue Catfish, channel Catfish, duckbill Catfish, Eurasian Catfish, firewood Catfish, flathead Catfish, flatwhiskered Catfish, forked tail Catfish, gafftopsail Catfish, giant Catfish, gilded Catfish, granulated Catfish, grey eel Catfish, hardhead Catfish, mandi Catfish, redtail Catfish, ripsaw Catfish, shark Catfish, sharptooth Catfish, slobbering Catfish, smoothmouth sea Catfish, suckermouth Catfish, swai Catfish, Thai shark Catfish, thickspined catfish, tigerstriped Catfish, walking Catfish, white Catfish, white sea Catfish, zebra Catla Catshark, small-spotted Chalceus, pinktail Char, Arctic Char, whitespotted Chilipepper Chinamanfish Choice, sailor’s Chub, Bermuda Chub, brassy Chub, Cortez sea Chub, European Chub, grey sea Chub, Utah Chub, yellow Cichlid, Mayan Cichlid, melanura Cichlid, midas Cichlid, turquoise Cisco Cobia Cod, Atlantic Cod, cow Cod, Pacific Coney Coney, Gulf Conger Conger, beach Coralgrouper, blacksaddled Coralgrouper, highfin Coralgrouper, leopard Corb, Corbina, California Coris, yellowstripe Cornetfish, bluespotted Cornetfish, red Coroata Coronetfish, red Corvina, hybrid Corvina, orangemouth Corvina, shortfin Crappie, black Crappie, white Creole-fish Croaker, Atlantic Croaker, Boeseman Croaker, camaroon Croaker, Cassava Croaker, law Croaker, longneck Croaker, S. A. silver Croaker, spotfin Croaker, whitemouth Croaker, yellowfin Cui-ui Cunner Cutlassfish, Atlantic

D – Dab, long rough Dainanumihebi Dart, largespotted Dentex Dentex, canary Dentex, pink Doctorfish Dogfish, smooth Dogfish, spiny Dolly Varden Dolphinfish Dorada Dorado Dourado Drum, black Drum, Canary Drum, freshwater Drum, red Durgon, black

E – Eel, American Eel, conger Eel, European Eel, fire Eel, Japanese Eel, king snake Eel, marbled Eel, shortfin Eel, stippled spoon-nose Emperor, longface Emperor, spangled Emperor, yellowlip Escolar Escolar, Roudi

F – Fallfish Fanray Featherback, clown Featherback, giant Featherback, Indochina Filefish, scrawled Filefish, thread-sail Filefish, unicorn Flathead, bar-tailed Flathead, crocodile Flathead, dusky Flier Flounder, arrow tooth Flounder, Brazilian Flounder, European Flounder, gulf Flounder, marbled Flounder, olive Flounder, slime Flounder, southern Flounder, starry Flounder, stone Flounder, summer Flounder, winter Forkbeard Forkbeard, greater Fusilier, redbelly yellowtail

G – Gar, alligator Gar, Florida Gar, longnose Gar, shortnose Gar, spotted Gar, tropical Garpike Geelbek Gengoro-Buna Gnomefish Goatfish, blackspot Goatfish, Indian Goatfish, whitesaddle Goatfish, yellow Goby, marble Goldeye Goldfish, Asian Goldfish-Carp hybrid Goosefish Gorami, giant Grayling Grayling, Arctic Grayling, Mongolian Graysby Graysby, Panama Greenling, fat Greenling, kelp Greenling, masked Greenling, rock Grenadier, roundnose Grouper, areolate Grouper, black Grouper, blue & yellow Grouper, broomtail Grouper, brown-marbled Grouper, cloudy Grouper, comb Grouper, comet Grouper, convict Grouper, dusky Grouper, duskytail Grouper, gag Grouper, giant Grouper, goldblotch Grouper, goliath Grouper, gulf Grouper, Hawaiian Grouper, Hong Kong Grouper, Island Grouper, leopard Grouper, longtooth Grouper, Malabar Grouper, marbled Grouper, mottled Grouper, moustache Grouper, Nassau Grouper, olive Grouper, orange-spotted Grouper, red Grouper, redmouth Grouper, sawtail Grouper, snowy Grouper, speckled blue Grouper, spotted Grouper, star studded Grouper, starry Grouper, tiger Grouper, Warsaw Grouper, white Grouper, yellow Grouper, yellowedge Grouper, yellowfin Grouper, yellowmouth Grunt, African striped Grunt, bastard Grunt, biglip Grunt, burrito Grunt, burro Grunt, longspine Grunt, Pacific roncador Grunt, rubberlip Grunt, silver Grunt, sompant Grunt, tomtate Grunt, white Grunt, white Grunter, javelin Grunter, saddle Guapote Guapote, jaguar Guitarfish, blackchin Guitarfish, giant Guitarfish, shovelnose Guitarfish, yellow Gurnard, flying Gurnard, grey Gurnard

H – Haddock Hake, Argentine Hake, European Hake, gulf Hake, Pacific Hake, red Hake, silver Hake, white Halibut, Atlantic Halibut, California Halibut, greenland Halibut, Pacific Halibut, shotted Happy, pink Hawkfish, giant Herring, Atlantic Herring, skipjack Hind, peacock Hind, red Hind, rock Hind, speckled Hind, tomato Hogfish, Spanish Hokke Hottentot Houndfish, Mexican Huchen Huchen, Japanese

I – Ide Inconnu Isaki Itoyoridai Iwatoko-namazu Izuhime-ei Izukasago

J – Jack, almaco Jack, bar Jack, black Jack, cornish Jack, cottonmouth Jack, crevalle Jack, green Jack, horse-eye Jack, island Jack, Pacific crevalle Jack, senegal Jack, yellow Jacopever, false Jacunda Jacunda, johans Jacunda, lenticulated Jacunda, marbled Jacunda, striped Jandia Jau Jawfish, finespotted Jobfish, crimson Jobfish, green Jobfish, lavender Jobfish, rusty Jundia Jurupoca

K – Kahawai Kasago Kawakawa Kingfish, gulf Kingfish, northern Kingfish, southern Knifefish, clown Kob Kobudai Kokanee Kokuni Korai-kitsunemebaru Korai-Nigoi Kuromenuke Kurosoi

L – Ladyfish Ladyfish, Hawaiian Ladyfish, Senegalese Ladyfish, springer Largemouth, humpback Largemouth, purple-faced Largemouth, thinface Lates, forktail Lates, Japanese Lau-lau Leaffish, Malayan Leatherjack, longjaw Leatherjacket, six-spined Leerfish, Lenok Ling, blue Ling, European Lingcod Lizardfish, Atlantic Lizardfish, inshore Lizardfish, wanieso Lookdown Lord, Red Irish Lord, yellow Irish Lyretail, yellow-edged

M – Machaca, Ma-Anago Machaca, Mackerel, atka Mackerel, Atlantic Mackerel, blue Mackerel, broadbarred Mackerel, bullet Mackerel, cero Mackerel, chub Mackerel, double-lined Mackerel, frigate Mackerel, Japanese jack Mackerel, Japanese Spanish Mackerel, king Mackerel, narrowbarred Mackerel, Pacific sierra Mackerel, queen Mackerel, shark Mackerel, snake Mackerel, Spanish Mackerel, West African Spanish Madai Ma-Fugo Mahseer Mahseer, golden Mahseer, stracheyi Mahseer, Thai Manduba Margate, black Margate, white Marimba Marlin, black Marlin, blue (Atlantic) Marlin, blue (Pacific) Marlin, striped Marlin, white Matrincha Meagre Meagre, Japanese Mebaru Medai (Japanese butterfish) Megrim Mejina Mekong pangasius Menada Mihara-hanadai Milkfish Mojarra, striped Mojarra, yellowfin Monkfish, European Mooneye Moray, blackedge Moray, blacktail Moray, green Moray, highfin Moray, honeycomb Moray, leopard Moray, Mediterranean Moray, purplemouth Moray, slender giant Moray, spotted Moray, viper Moray, zebra Morwong, blackbarred Morwong, spottedtail Mrigal Mullet, hog Mullet, liza Mullet, striped Mullet, thicklip Mullet, thinlip Mullet, white Murasoi Muskellunge Muskellunge, tiger Musselcracker, black Myleus, redhook

N – Needlefish, Atlantic Needlefish, flat Needlefish, Pacific agujon Nembwe Nigoi Nkupe

O – Oilfish Okin-buna Okuchi-ishinagi Oniokoze Opah Oscar Oshitabirame Ougon-murasoi

P – Pacu, black Pacu, caranha Paloma Palometa Pandora Pangasius, giant Pangasius, shortbarbel Parrotfish, Japanese Parrotfish, midnight Parrotfish, rainbow Parrotperch, Japanese Parrotperch, spotted Payara Peacock, blackstriped Peacock, blue Peacock, butterfly Peacock, Melaniae Peacock, Orinoco Peacock, speckled Peacock, vazzoleri Pejerrey Pellona, Amazon Pellona, yelllowfin river Perch, chinese Perch, creole Perch, European Perch, Nile Perch, ocean Perch, Sacramento Perch, white Perch, yellow Permit Piabanha Piau Piau, red Piavucu Pickerel, chain Pickerel, grass Pickerel, redfin Picuda Pike, northern Pike-characin, golden Pike-conger, common Pikeminnow, northern Pikeminnow, Sacramento Pinfish Pinook Piracatinga Pirambeba Piramutaba Piranha, black Piranha, black spot Piranha, Manueli’s Piranha, red Piranha, serrulatus Piranha, white Piraputanga Pirarucu Pollack, European Pollock Pollock, Alaska Pomfret Pomfret, bigscale Pomfret, Brevort’s Pomfret, lustrous Pomfret, Pacific Pompano, African Pompano, blackblotch Pompano, dolphin Pompano, Florida Pompano, gafftopsail Pompano, Irish Pompano, snubnose Pompano, southern Porcupinefish Porcupinefish, black-blotched Porcupinefish, longspine Porgy, black Porgy, Canary Porgy, jolthead Porgy, knobbed Porgy, littlehead Porgy, pluma Porgy, red Porgy, saucereye Porgy, sheepshead Porgy, whitebone Porkfish, Powan Prickleback, monkeyface Puddingwife Puffer, oceanic Puffer, panther Puffer, prickly Puffer, smooth Puffer, whitespotted Pumpkinseed

Q – Queenfish, doublespotted Queenfish, needlescaled Queenfish, talang Quillback

R – Ratfish, spotted Raven, sea Raven, sea Ray, backwater butterfly Ray, bat Ray, blonde Ray, bluespotted ribbontail Ray, bull Ray, bull Ray, common eagle Ray, discus Ray, Japanese eagle Ray, longheaded eagle Ray, painted Ray, pale Ray, southern fiddler Ray, spiny butterfly Ray, starry Ray, thornback Ray, undulate Rebeca Redfin, Pacific Redfish, acadian Redhorse, black Redhorse, blacktail Redhorse, golden Redhorse, greater Redhorse, river Redhorse, shorthead Redhorse, silver Remora, common Roach-Bream Rock-bacu Rockcod, bluelined Rockfish, bank Rockfish, black Rockfish, blackgill Rockfish, blue Rockfish, bronzespotted Rockfish, brown Rockfish, canary Rockfish, chameleon Rockfish, China Rockfish, copper Rockfish, dusky Rockfish, flag Rockfish, goldeye Rockfish, gopher Rockfish, grass Rockfish, greenspotted Rockfish, greenstriped Rockfish, honeycomb Rockfish, Mexican Rockfish, olive Rockfish, pink Rockfish, quillback Rockfish, redbanded Rockfish, Rosethorn Rockfish, rougheye Rockfish, shortraker Rockfish, silvergray Rockfish, speckled Rockfish, splitnose Rockfish, starry Rockfish, tiger Rockfish, vermillion Rockfish, widow Rockfish, yelloweye Rockfish, yellowtail Rohu Roosterfish Rosefish, blackbelly Rudd Runner, blue Runner, rainbow

S – Sabaleta Sabalo Sailfin, vermiculated Sailfish, Atlantic Sailfish, Pacific Sailors choice Salema Salmon, Atlantic Salmon, Atlantic Salmon, Chinook Salmon, chinook-coho Salmon, chum Salmon, coho Salmon, pink Salmon, sockeye Samson Fish Sand diver Sandbass, parrot Sandperch, Brazilian Sandperch, namorado Sardinata Sargento Sargo Sauger Saugeye Sawfish, large-tooth Sawtail, scalpel Scabbardfish, channel Scabbardfish, silver Scad, amberstripe Scad, false Scad, mackerel Scamp Scombrops, Atlantic Scorpionfish, black Scorpionfish, California Scorpionfish, darkblotch Scorpionfish, red Scorpionfish, spinycheek Scorpionfish, spotback Scorpionfish, spotted Sculpin, great Sculpin, shorthorn Sculpin, stellar’s Scup Seabass, blackfin Seabass, Japanese Seabass, spotted Seabass, white Seabream, axillary Seabream, black Seabream, bluespotted Seabream, crimson Seabream, daggerhead Seabream, gilthead Seabream, Moroccan white Seabream, Okinawa Seabream, red stumpnose Seabream, redbanded Seabream, saddle Seabream, Scotsman Seabream, sharpsnout Seabream, striped Seabream, white Seabream, yellowback Seabream, yellowfin Seabream, zebra Seachub, blue Seaperch, spotted scale Searobin, striped Seatrout, sand Seatrout, silver Seatrout, spotted Seerfish, Australian Seerfish, Chinese Seerfish, kanadi Sennet, southern Serrana, blacktail Seventy-four Shad, allis Shad, American Shad, gizzard Shad, hickory Shad, Mediterranean Shad, twaite Shark, Atlantic sharpnose Shark, banded Shark, bigeye thresher Shark, bignose Shark, blackmouth cat Shark, blacknose Shark, blacktail Shark, blacktip Shark, blacktip reef Shark, blue Shark, bonnethead Shark, brown smooth-hound Shark, brownbanded bamboo Shark, bull Shark, Caribbean reef Shark, dusky Shark, Galapagos Shark, great hammerhead Shark, Greenland Shark, gulper Shark, gummy Shark, Japanese bullhead Shark, lemon Shark, leopard Shark, mako Shark, milk Shark, narrowtooth Shark, night Shark, nurse Shark, oceanic whitetip Shark, pig-eye Shark, porbeagle Shark, salmon Shark, sand tiger Shark, sandbar Shark, scalloped hammerhead Shark, sevengill Shark, sicklefin lemon Shark, silky Shark, silvertip Shark, sixgilled Shark, smallfin gulper Shark, smooth hammerhead Shark, spinner Shark, thresher Shark, tiger Shark, tope Shark, velvet belly lantern Shark, white Shark, whitetip reef Sharkminnow, black Sharkminnow, tricolor Sharksucker Sheephead, California Sheepshead Shimazoi Shiro-Guchi Shosai-fugu Sicklefish Sierra, Atlantic Silver eye Skate Skate, big Skate, starry Skipjack, black Sleeper, bigmouth Slimehead, Darwin’s Smoothhound, Florida Smoothhound, starry Smoothhound, star-spotted Snakehead Snakehead, blotched Snakehead, chevron Snakehead, emperor Snakehead, giant Snakehead, great Snakehead, splendid Snapper, Squirefish, African brown Snapper, African red Snapper, black Snapper, blackfin Snapper, blacktail Snapper, Brigham’s Snapper, Colorado Snapper, cubera Snapper, dog Snapper, emperor Snapper, flame Snapper, gorean Snapper, greenbar Snapper, grey Snapper, lane Snapper, mahogany Snapper, Malabar Snapper, mangrove red Snapper, mullet Snapper, mutton Snapper, Pacific cubera Snapper, Pacific red Snapper, Papuan black Snapper, queen Snapper, red Snapper, ruby Snapper, Russell’s Snapper, scarlet Snapper, schoolmaster Snapper, silk Snapper, Spanish flag Snapper, spotted rose Snapper, two-spot red Snapper, vermillion Snapper, yellow Snapper, yellowstreaked Snapper, yellowtail Snoek Snook, common Snook, fat Snook, Mexican Snook, Pacific black Snook, Pacific blackfin Snook, Pacific white Snook, swordspine Snook, tarpon Sole Sole, fantail Sole, lemon Sole, Northern Sole, southern rock Sole, yellowfin Sorubim, barred Sorubim, spotted Sorubim, tiger Spadefish, Atlantic Spearfish, longbill Spearfish, Mediterranean Spearfish, roundscale Spearfish, shortbill Spinefoot, mottled Spinefoot, orange-spotted Spinefoot, streaked Splake Splendid, alfonsino Spot Squirrelfish, sabre Stargazer Stargazer, northern Stargazer, spotted Australian Steenbras, red Stingray, Atlantic Stingray, black Stingray, bluespotted Stingray, bluntnose Stingray, common Stingray, cowtail Stingray, daisy Stingray, diamond Stingray, Haller’s round Stingray, pelagic Stingray, red Stingray, roughtail Stingray, round Stingray, S.A. freshwater Stingray, southern Stingray, whip Stingray, w-mouth Stumpnose, red Sturgeon, beluga Sturgeon, lake Sturgeon, shortnose Sturgeon, shovelnose Sturgeon, white Sucker, flannelmouth Sucker, longnose Sucker, northern hog Sucker, spotted Sucker, white Sunfish, green Sunfish, hybrid Sunfish, longear Sunfish, redbreast Sunfish, redear Surfperch, barred Surfperch, calico Surfperch, striped Surgeonfish, Yellowfin Sweetlip, painted Swordfish

T – Taimen Takenokomebaru Tambaqui Tanuki-Mebaru Tarpon Tarpon, oxeye Tautog Tench Tetra, disk Thornyhead, shortspine Threadfin, East Asian Threadfin, giant African Threadfin, Indian Threadfin, king Threadfin, moi Threadfin, smallscale Threadfin, striped Threadfish, African Tigerfish Tigerfish, Campbells Tigerfish, four-barred Siamese Tigerfish, giant Tigerfish, North African Tilapia, blue Tilapia, hornet Tilapia, Mozambique Tilapia, Nile Tilapia, redbreast Tilapia, spotted Tilapia, threespot Tilefish, Atlantic goldeye Tilefish, Bahama Tilefish, blackline Tilefish, blueline Tilefish, golden-eyed Tilefish, great northern Tilefish, red Tilefish, sand Tilefish, southern Toadfish, leopard Toadfish, Lusitanian Toadfish, oyster Torpedo, Atlantic Torpedo, spotted Trahira Trahira, giant Trevally, bigeye Trevally, blacktip Trevally, blue Trevally, bluefin Trevally, brassy Trevally, coastal Trevally, giant Trevally, golden Trevally, orange spotted Trevally, white Trevally, yellowspotted Triggerfish, blunthead Triggerfish, grey Triggerfish, ocean Triggerfish, queen Triggerfish, spotted Oceanic Triggerfish, Yellowmargin Triggerfish, yellowspotted Tripletail Trout, Apache Trout, aurora Trout, biwamasu Trout, brook Trout, brown Trout, bull Trout, cutbow Trout, cutthroat Trout, golden Trout, lake Trout, masu Trout, ohrid Trout, rainbow Trout, red spotted masu Trout, red-spotted masu Trout, tiger Trunkfish Tuna, BIGEYE Tuna, blackfin Tuna, bluefin Tuna, dogtooth Tuna, longtail Tuna, Pacific bluefin Tuna, skipjack Tuna, slender Tuna, southern bluefin Tuna, yellowfin Tunny, little Turbot, spottail spiny Tusk

U – Ugui Ukkarikasago Umazura Hagi Umeiro Utsubo

V – Vimba

W – Wahoo Wallago Walleye Warmouth Weakfish Weakfish, acoupa Weakfish, boccone Weakfish, green Weakfish, gulf Weakfish, Stolzmann’s Weakfish, striped Wedgefish, African Weever, greater Wels Wenchman Whipray, pink Whitefish, broad Whitefish, lake Whitefish, mountain Whitefish, ocean Whitefish, round Whiting, blue Whiting, European Wolffish, Atlantic Wolffish, Bering Wolffish, northern Wolffish, spotted Wrasse, ballan Wrasse, crimson-banded Wrasse, humphead Maori Wrasse, purple Wreckfish

Y – Yellowfish, largemouth Yellowtail, California Yellowtail, southern Yellow

Z – Zahrte, Zander