Great Lakes
Physical Attribute
Minnows
Ontario
Fun Facts
100

What is the largest fish species in the Great Lakes?

Lake Sturgeon

100

What fishes do not have jaws?

Lampreys

100

What is the largest minnow in Ontario?

Fallfish

100

What is Ontario's largest sunfish?

Largemouth Bass

100

What species smells like cucumber?

Rainbow Smelt



200

What salmon is native to Lake Ontario?

Atlantic salmon

200

What fish has silver, barred, and spotted colour forms?

Muskellunge

200

What endangered minnow is found almost exclusively in the GTA?

Redside Dace




200

What is the largest sucker in Ontario?

River redhorse

200

What species smells like thyme?

 Arctic Char (Thymallus articus)

300

How did Sea lamprey get into the upper Great Lakes?

Welland and Erie canals

300

What is a carp without scales called?

Leather carp

300

What is the largest invasive minnow?

Rudd

300

What is the rarest sucker in Ontario?

Lake Chubsucker

300

Where is Brown Trout native?

Europe

400

What herring is invasive to the Great Lakes?

Alewife

400

What fish only has a single barbel?

Burbot

400

What is the smallest member of the pike family?

Central Mudminnow

400

Round Goby is one of two invasive gobies in Ontario. What is the other?

Tubenose Goby

400

Where does the American Eel spawn?

Sargasso Sea

500

What silver fish in the Great Lakes has very large eyes?

Mooneye

500

What makes Walleye eyes "glow"?

tapetum lucidum

500

What species has a three-lobed lower jaw?

Cutlip Minnow

500

What two species in Ontario form clones and hybrids?

Northern redbelly dace, finescale dace

500

What is the most valuable commercial fish in Ontario based on total annual value?

Yellow Perch