North Sea

Pleuronectiformes - Flatfishes

Salmoniformes - Salmons and Trouts

Myxiniformes - Hagfishes

Gadiformes - Cods

Anguilliformes - Eels and morays

Lamniformes - Mackerel sharks

Acipenseriformes - Sturgeons and Paddlefish

Carcharhiniformes - Ground sharks

Zeiformes - Dories

Squaliformes - Sleeper and dogfish sharks

Scorpaeniformes - Mail-cheeked fishes

Lophiiformes - Anglerfishes

Scombriformes - Mackerels

Osmeriformes - Smelts

Clupeiformes - Herrings

Notacanthiformes - Spiny eels

Saccopharyngiformes - Swallowers and Gulpers

Rajiformes - Skates and rays

Labriformes - Wrasses

Trachiniformes - Weeverfishes

The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean between Great Britain (specifically England and Scotland), Jutland (in Denmark), Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Hauts-de-France (in France). An epeiric sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north. It is more than 970 kilometres (600 mi) long and 580 kilometres (360 mi) wide, covering 570,000 square kilometres (220,000 sq mi).