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Elephant Butte Lake - Elephant Butte, NM

Cold Water Fish

Brook Trout
Salvelinus fontinalis
Brown Trout
Salmo trutta
Chinook Salmon
Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
Chum Salmon
Oncorhynchus keta
Coastal Cutthroat
Oncorhynchus clarkii
Coho Salmon
Oncorhynchus kisutch
Cutbow Trout
Oncorhynchus clarkii × mykiss
Cutthroat Trout
Oncorhynchus clarki
Kokanee Salmon
Oncorhynchus nerka
Lightning Trout
Oncorhynchus mykiss
Mackinaw Trout
Salvelinus namaycush
Pink Salmon
Oncorhynchus gorbuscha
Rainbow Trout
Oncorhynchus mykiss
Sockeye Salmon
Oncorhynchus nerka
Steelhead
Oncorhynchus mykiss irideus

Warm Water Fish

Black Bullhead
Ameiurus melas
Black Crappie
Pomoxis nigromaculatus
Blue Catfish
Ictalurus furcatus
Bluegill
Lepomis macrochirus
Brown Bullhead
Ameiurus nebulosus
Channel Catfish
Ictalurus punctatus
Common Carp
Cyprinus carpio
Green Sunfish
Lepomis cyanellus
Inland Silverside
Menidia beryllina
Largemouth Bass
Micropterus salmoides
Prickly Sculpin
Cottus asper
Redear Sunfish
Lepomis microlophus
Smallmouth Bass
Micropterus dolomieu
Striped Bass
Morone saxatilis
Threadfin Shad
Dorosoma petenense
Tilapia
Oreochromis niloticus
Tule Perch
Hysterocarpus traskii traskii
White Bass
Morone chrysops
White Catfish
Ameiurus catus
White Crappie
Pomoxis annularis
White Sturgeon
Acipenser transmontanus
Wiper
Morone chrysops × M. saxatilis
Yellow Bullhead
Ameiurus natalis

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