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Iowa is home to 148 different fish species. Check out these helpful tips to help you identify Iowa fish. What to look for? Fish often are described by characteristics of their body shape, mouth, fins, and even scales. Knowing key characteristics of different kinds of fish will help you identify them.
This pamphlet is an introductory guide to Iowa fish. For more information about Iowa fish, check out our website at www.iowadnr.gov/fishing. Illustrations Credits: Duane Raver for the muskellunge illustrations; Pennsylvania Fish Commission for the fish topography illustrations; Maynard Reese for all other fish illustrations Learn More About ...
The body of a fish is divided into head, trunk, and tail. Body size and shape vary depending on where they live and what they eat. This pamphlet is an introductory guide to Iowa fish.
Over 3,400 free-loan rods and reels are available at over 100 locations around Iowa to use for a fishing field trip or to teach casting. Fish Iowa! combines physical education, health, biology, geography, and family and consumer sciences that focuses on fishing.
editions were exactly the same 248 pages of fish species descriptions, common fish foods, a section on how to fish for several of the more popular species, a checklist of fish species found in Iowa, as well as a key for identifying the different species.
Iowa there are many different bodies of water, from the Mississippi and Missouri border rivers, to lakes and reservoirs, to smaller streams and rivers. Even small farm ponds may have sizable fish populations, sometimes over 200 pounds of fish per acre of water.
Most students will be amazed to learn the many different fish found in their area, whether their “area” is the state of Iowa or a local lake. Iowa Fish ID Guide and the IDNR Fisheries Bureau home page are excellent resources for information about fish species found in Iowa. (See the “Teacher Aids” and “Additional Materials” sections.)
