Annotated Checklist of Fishes of Thunder Bay District

This first edition of Checklist of Fishes of Thunder Bay District adds to existing checklists prepared by members of the Thunder Bay Field Naturalists (TBFN) covering other vertebrate taxa (mammals, birds, reptiles & amphibians), as well vascular plants, butterflies, and odonates. As with these other checklists, it covers the official judicial District of Thunder Bay which extends from the eastern border of Quetico Provincial Park east to White River, and from the international border north to Lake St. Joseph and the Albany River. Much of the District (60%) is within the Great Lakes watershed, with the remaining draining into the Arctic Ocean either north via the Hudson Bay Lowlands, or west via Rainy Lake/Lake of the Woods and the Nelson River watershed.

This checklist was prepared by Rob Foster (TBFN) with major inputs from Dr. Walter Momot and Connie Hartviksen (both Lakehead University [retired] and TBFN). It is based in large part on their decades-long work on the region’s ichthyofauna.