Whitefish or white fish may refer to:

Fish

Whitefish (fisheries term) Whitefish or white fish is a fisheries term for several species of demersal fish with fins, particularly Atlantic cod (''Gadus morhua''), whiting (fish), whiting (''Merluccius bilinearis''), haddock (''Melanogrammus aeglefinus''), Phycidae, hake ...

, referring to species commercially caught in the North Atlantic *

Freshwater whitefish The freshwater whitefish are fishes of the subfamily Coregoninae, which contains whitefishes (both freshwater and anadromous) and ciscoes, and is one of three subfamilies in the salmon family Salmonidae. Apart from the subfamily Coregoninae, ...

, members of the subfamily Coregoninae in the family Salmonidae, including: **

Atlantic whitefish The Atlantic whitefish (''Coregonus huntsmani'') is a coregonine fish inhabiting some freshwater lakes within Nova Scotia, Canada. It is known to survive only in the Petite Rivière watershed as landlocked populations. Earlier it was also foun ...

, ''Coregonus huntsmani'' in the genus ''Coregonus'' **

Common whitefish ''Coregonus lavaretus'' is a species of freshwater whitefish, in the family Salmonidae. It is the type species of its genus ''Coregonus''. There are widely different concepts about the delimitation of the species ''Coregonus lavaretus'' and abou ...

, ''Coregonus lavaretus'' in the genus ''Coregonus'' **

Lake whitefish The lake whitefish (''Coregonus clupeaformis'') is a species of freshwater whitefish from North America. Lake whitefish are found throughout much of Canada and parts of the northern United States, including all of the Great Lakes. The lake white ...

, ''Coregonus clupeaformis'' in the genus ''Coregonus'' **

Mountain whitefish The mountain whitefish (''Prosopium williamsoni'') is one of the most widely distributed salmonid fish of western North America. It is found from the Mackenzie River drainage in Northwest Territories, Canada through western Canada and the northwe ...

, ''Prosopium williamsoni'', in the genus ''Prosopium'' *

Cape whitefish The Cape whitefish or Berg-Breede River whitefish (''Cheilobarbus capensis'') is a ray-finned fish species in the family Cyprinidae. It was formerly placed with the South African redfins in ''Pseudobarbus''. It is tetraploid. Its closest living ...

, ''Pseudobarbus capensis'', a cyprinid *

Beluga sturgeon The beluga (), also known as the beluga sturgeon or great sturgeon (''Huso huso''), is a species of anadromous fish in the sturgeon family (Acipenseridae) of the order Acipenseriformes. It is found primarily in the Caspian and Black Sea basins, ...

, ''Huso huso'' *

Caspian kutum The Caspian kutum (''Rutilus kutum'') or Caspian white fish is a species of Actinopterygii, ray-finned fish belonging to the Family (biology), family Leuciscidae, (related to the daces and Eurasian minnows). It lives in the brackish water habitats ...

, also called "White Fish" or "Caspian White Fish" * The chimaerae species: ** Australian ghost shark ** Ogilby's ghostshark * Some

tilefish file:Malacanthus latovittatus.jpg, 250px, Blue blanquillo, ''Malacanthus latovittatus'' Tilefishes are mostly small perciform marine fish comprising the family (biology), family Malacanthidae. They are usually found in sandy areas, especially n ...

es, including ** Ocean whitefish (''Caulolatilus princeps'') *

White steenbras The white steenbras (''Lithognathus lithognathus'') is a species of fish in the family Sparidae endemic to South Africa. Due to overfishing, primarily by seine netting operations in False Bay False Bay (Afrikaans: ''Valsbaai'') is a body o ...

, (''Lithognathus lithognathus''), a sparid

Places

Whitefish Bay Whitefish Bay is a large bay on the eastern end of Lake Superior between Michigan, United States, and Ontario, Canada. It is located between Whitefish Point in Michigan and Whiskey Point along the more rugged, largely wilderness Canadian Shield ...

, a bay in Lake Superior between the United States and Canada *

Whitefish Range The Whitefish Range is a mountain range stretching north-south from British Columbia, Canada to Montana, United States. It is about long and wide. Water flowing from its east side drains down the North Fork Flathead River and its west side drai ...

, Montana and British Columbia

Canada

* Whitefish, Ontario *

Whitefish Falls, Ontario Whitefish or white fish may refer to: Fish * Whitefish (fisheries term), referring to species commercially caught in the North Atlantic * Freshwater whitefish, members of the subfamily Coregoninae in the family Salmonidae, including: ** Atlant ...

Whitefish Lake First Nation The Whitefish Lake First Nation () is a First Nations band government in northern Alberta. Headquartered in Atikameg, it controls three Indian reserves In Canada, an Indian reserve () or First Nations reserve () is defined by the ''India ...

, Ontario

United States

Whitefish, Montana Whitefish (Montana Salish, Salish: epɫx̣ʷy̓u, "has whitefish") is a city in Flathead County, Montana, United States. According to the 2020 United States census, there were 7,751 people in the city. History Archaeological records indicate th ...

Whitefish Mountain Resort Whitefish Mountain Resort is a ski resort on Big Mountain in northwestern Montana. It is west of Glacier National Park in the Flathead National Forest, from the town of Whitefish, west of Columbia Falls, and north of Kalispell. Histo ...

, a ski resort on Big Mountain in Whitefish, Montana *

Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin Whitefish Bay is a village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 14,954 at the 2020 census. A suburb north of Milwaukee along the shore of Lake Michigan, it is part of the Milwaukee metropolitan area. History In th ...

Whitefish Township, Michigan Whitefish Township is a civil township of Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 474 at the 2020 census. With a land area of , Whitefish Township is the sixth-largest municipality in the state by land area and among ...

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*"Whitefish", an instrumental by the rock band Yes, first released on the 1985 live album '' 9012Live: The Solos''

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