Fish Names by Country
What Mediterranean fish are called around the sea, in English.
The same fish goes by a different name in every Mediterranean country, and the local names rarely look like the English ones. Pick a country to see the local name of each fish next to its English and scientific name, with a photo to help you recognise it.
Useful when you are reading a menu on holiday, buying at a fish market or talking to fishermen at the harbour.
Italian fish names
123 fish · Italy
Spanish fish names
121 fish · Spain
French fish names
124 fish · France
Maltese fish names
95 fish · Malta
Croatian fish names
114 fish · Croatia
Slovenian fish names
88 fish · Slovenia
Turkish fish names
122 fish · Turkey
Tunisian fish names
50 fish · Tunisia
Libyan fish names
48 fish · Libya
Egyptian fish names
68 fish · Egypt
Names are checked against the official lists of commercial fish names that EU countries publish, the FishBase database and Wikidata.