Fish Species · Lystfangst.dk

1 fishing spot

🌊 Coastal & Marine

Anglerfish

Lophius piscatorius

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

1 fishing spot

🐟 Salmonids & Trout

Arctic char

Salvelinus alpinus

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

202 fishing spots ⭐ ⭐ Popular Gamefish

🌊 Coastal & Marine

Atlantic cod

Gadus morhua

Minimum Size 40 cm. (Nordsøen og Skagerak) 35 cm. (Kattegat, Bælterne og Østersøen)

Closed Season No closed season

No fishing spots

🐡 Flatfish

Atlantic halibut

Hippoglossus hippoglossus

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

40 fishing spots ⭐ ⭐ Popular Gamefish

🌊 Coastal & Marine

Atlantic herring

Clupea harengus

Minimum Size Nordsøen, herunder Ringkøbing Fjord og Limfjorden 20 cm. Skagerak/Kattegat 18 cm. All other waters have no size limit.

Closed Season No closed season

2 fishing spots

🌊 Coastal & Marine

Atlantic horse mackerel

Trachurus trachurus

Minimum Size 15 cm.

Closed Season No closed season

18 fishing spots ⭐ ⭐ Popular Gamefish

🌊 Coastal & Marine

Atlantic mackerel

Scomber scombrus

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

40 fishing spots ⭐ ⭐ Popular Gamefish

🐟 Salmonids & Trout

Atlantic salmon

Salmo salar

Minimum Size 60 cm.

Closed Season 16/11 - 15/1 in freshwater16/11 - 15/1 in saltwater (colored salmon)

No fishing spots

🌊 Coastal & Marine

Atlantic wolffish

Anarhichas lupus

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

1 fishing spot

🌊 Coastal & Marine

Ballan wrasse

Labrus berggylta

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

6 fishing spots

🌊 Coastal & Marine

Bleak

Alburnus alburnus

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

1 fishing spot

🐡 Flatfish

Brill

Scophtalmus rhombus

Minimum Size 30 cm.

Closed Season No closed season

4 fishing spots

🐟 Salmonids & Trout

Brook trout

Salvelinus fontinalis

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

101 fishing spots

🐟 Salmonids & Trout

Brown trout

Salmo trutta fario

Minimum Size 30 cm. in freshwater.

Closed Season 16/11 - 15/1.

9 fishing spots

🌲 Lakes & Rivers

Burbot

Lota lota

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

No fishing spots

🌊 Coastal & Marine

Capelin

Mallotus villosus

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

No fishing spots

🌲 Lakes & Rivers

Chub

Leuciscus cephalus

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

68 fishing spots

🌲 Lakes & Rivers

Common bream

Abramis brama

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

28 fishing spots

🌲 Lakes & Rivers

Common carp

Cyprinus carpio

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

135 fishing spots

🐡 Flatfish

Common dab

Limanda limanda

Minimum Size 25 cm. Baltic Sea & the Belts. 23 cm. Skagerrak & Kattegat.

Closed Season No closed season

4 fishing spots

🐡 Flatfish

Common sole

Solea solea

Minimum Size 24,5 cm.

Closed Season No closed season

11 fishing spots

🐟 Salmonids & Trout

Common whitefish

Coregonus laveratus

Minimum Size 36 cm.(I Ringkøbing Fjord: 34 cm.)

Closed Season 1/11 - 31/1 in freshwater1/11 - 31/1 in saltwater (Ringkøbing fjord og Stadil fjord 1/11 - 28/2)

21 fishing spots

🌲 Lakes & Rivers

Crucian carp

Carassius carassius

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

3 fishing spots

🌊 Coastal & Marine

European conger

Conger conger

Minimum Size 58 cm.

Closed Season No closed season

200 fishing spots

🌊 Coastal & Marine

European eel

Anguilla anguilla

Minimum Size Gulål in saltwater 35,5 cm (i Limfjorden dog 38 cm). Gulål in freshwater 45 cm.

Closed Season No closed season

214 fishing spots

🐡 Flatfish

European flounder

Platichtys flesus

Minimum Size 25,5 cm.

Closed Season 15/02 - 14/05 in freshwater (female flounder with roe). 01/03 - 15/04 in saltwater (Ringkøbing-, Nissum- og Stadil Fjord) 15/01 - 15/05 in saltwater (Skagerak, Kattegat, Western Baltic, The Sound (Øresund), Isefjorden og Rosklide Fjord)

No fishing spots

🌊 Coastal & Marine

European hake

Merluccius merluccius

Minimum Size 40 cm.

Closed Season No closed season

159 fishing spots ⭐ ⭐ Popular Gamefish

🌲 Lakes & Rivers

European perch

Perca fluviatilis

Minimum Size 20 cm in brackish & saltwater (except Ringkøbing & Stadil Fjords).

Closed Season No closed season

135 fishing spots ⭐ ⭐ Popular Gamefish

🐡 Flatfish

European plaice

Pleuronectes platessa

Minimum Size 27 cm.

Closed Season 15/1 - 30/4 (Hun) - Skagerak, Kattegat, Western Baltic, The Sound (Øresund), Isefjorden, Roskilde Fjord og Limfjorden.

No fishing spots

🌊 Coastal & Marine

European smelt

Osmerus eperlanus

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

441 fishing spots ⭐ ⭐ Popular Gamefish

🌊 Coastal & Marine

Garfish

Belone belone

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

28 fishing spots

🐟 Salmonids & Trout

Grayling

Thymallus thymallus

Minimum Size 33 cm.

Closed Season 15/3 - 15/5.

3 fishing spots

🌊 Coastal & Marine

Greater weever

Trachinus draco

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

51 fishing spots

🐡 Flatfish

Greenland halibut

Reinhardtius hippoglossoides

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

No fishing spots

🌊 Coastal & Marine

Grey gurnard

Eutrigla gurnadus

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

No fishing spots

🌊 Coastal & Marine

Haddock

Melanogrammus aeglefinus

Minimum Size 35 cm. (Nordsøen, Baltic Sea & the Belts) 32 cm. (Skagerrak & Kattegat)

Closed Season No closed season

4 fishing spots

🐟 Salmonids & Trout

Houting

Coregonus oxyrhynchus

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season 01/01 - 31/12 (fully protected all year) Both in fresh and saltwater.

14 fishing spots

🌲 Lakes & Rivers

Ide

Leuciscus idus

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

No fishing spots

🌊 Coastal & Marine

John Dory

Zeus faber

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

17 fishing spots

🐟 Salmonids & Trout

Lake trout

Salmo trutta lacustris

Minimum Size 40 cm.

Closed Season 16/11 - 15/1 in freshwater

No fishing spots

🐡 Flatfish

Lemon sole

Microstomus kitt

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

No fishing spots

🌊 Coastal & Marine

Ling

Molva molva

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

No fishing spots

🌊 Coastal & Marine

Lumpfish

Cyclopterus lumpus

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

148 fishing spots ⭐ ⭐ Popular Gamefish

🌲 Lakes & Rivers

Northern pike

Esox lucius

Minimum Size 60 cm in freshwater. 60 cm in saltwater.

Closed Season 1/4 - 30/4 in freshwater.

40 fishing spots ⭐ ⭐ Popular Gamefish

🌲 Lakes & Rivers

Pikeperch

Lucioperca lucioperca

Minimum Size 50 cm. in freshwater.

Closed Season 1/5 - 31/5 in freshwater.

No fishing spots

🌊 Coastal & Marine

Pollack

Pollachius pollachius

Minimum Size 30 cm.

Closed Season No closed season

126 fishing spots ⭐ ⭐ Popular Gamefish

🐟 Salmonids & Trout

Rainbow trout

Oncorhynchus mykiss

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

74 fishing spots

🌲 Lakes & Rivers

Roach

Rutillus rutillus

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

28 fishing spots

🌲 Lakes & Rivers

Rudd

Scardinus erythrophtalmus

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

4 fishing spots

🌊 Coastal & Marine

Ruffe

Acerina cernua

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

10 fishing spots ⭐ ⭐ Popular Gamefish

🌊 Coastal & Marine

Saithe

Pollachius virens

Minimum Size 40 cm.

Closed Season No closed season

661 fishing spots ⭐ ⭐ Popular Gamefish

🐟 Salmonids & Trout

Sea trout

Salmo trutta

Minimum Size 40 cm.

Closed Season 16/11 - 15/1 in freshwater. 16/11 - 15/1 in saltwater (colored sea trout in spawning dress)

2 fishing spots

🌊 Coastal & Marine

Spiny dogfish

Squalus acanthias

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

39 fishing spots

🐟 Salmonids & Trout

Steelhead trout

Oncorhynchus mykiss

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

35 fishing spots

🌲 Lakes & Rivers

Tench

Tinca tinca

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

63 fishing spots

🌊 Coastal & Marine

Thicklip grey mullet

Chelon labrosus

Minimum Size 20 cm.

Closed Season No closed season

No fishing spots

🌊 Coastal & Marine

Thornback ray

Raja clavata

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

11 fishing spots

🌊 Coastal & Marine

Tope shark

Galeorhinus galeus

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

22 fishing spots ⭐ ⭐ Popular Gamefish

🐡 Flatfish

Turbot

Psetta maxima

Minimum Size 30 cm.

Closed Season No closed season

No fishing spots

🌊 Coastal & Marine

Tusk

Brosme brosme

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season

4 fishing spots

🌊 Coastal & Marine

Whiting

Merlangius merlangus

Minimum Size 23 cm.

Closed Season No closed season

No fishing spots

🐡 Flatfish

Witch flounder

Glyptocephalus cynoglossus

Minimum Size No minimum size

Closed Season No closed season