Watercolor collection of the Danish freshwater fish

Project and watercolours by Frits Ahlefeldt

A public good project – where I work to describe and sketch up the Danish freshwater fish to help show why we need to protect streams, rivers and lakes in Denmark. There are +30 freshwater species in Denmark. Here are the fish species I have sketched up in watercolor so far – ( it is a work in progress, still need to do better watercolors of some of the freshwater fish here) :

Gallery:

Gudgeon – Grundling (DK) Freshwater fish

Pike – Gedde (DK) Freshwater fish

Crucian Carp – Karusse Freshwater fish

Stone Moroko / topmouth gudgeon – Båndgrundling Freshwater fish

Grass carp – Græskarpe (DK) Freshwater fish

Cisco – Helting Freshwater fish

Nine spined stickleback – Nipigged hundestejle (DK) Freshwater fish

Zander – Sandart ( DK) Freshwater fish

Dace – Strømskalle (DK) Freshwater fish

Stone loach – smerling Freshwater fish

White Bream – Flire Freshwaterfish

Ruffe – Hork (DK) Freshwater fish

Weatherfish – Dynsmerling Freshwater fish

Silver carp – Karpe (DK) Freshwater fish

Burbot – Knude (DK) Freshwater fish

Sun bleak – regnløje Freshwater fish

Goldfish – Guldfisk (DK) Freshwater fish

Mudminnow – Lille hundefisk ( DK ) Freshwater fish

Common Bream – Brasen (DK) Freshwater fish

Ide – Rimte (DK) Freshwater fish

Spined loach – pigsmerling freshwater fish in Denmark

Smelt – helting (DK) – Freshwater fish

Whitefish – Helt Freshwaterfish

Bleak – Loeje (DK) Freshwater fish

Rudd – Rudskalle (DK) Freshwater fish

European Sturgeon – Stør Freshwater fish

Pumkinseed Sunfish – solaborre (DK) Freshwater fish

Wells Catfish – Malle Freshwaterfish

Flounder – Skruppe (DK) Freshwater fish

Bitterling – Bitterling (DK) Freshwater fish

Grayling – Stalling (DK) Freshwater fish

Minnow – Elritse (DK) Freshwater fish

Brown Bullhead – Brun dvaerg malle (DK) Freshwater fish

Alpine Bullhead – Finnestribet ferskvandshulk (DK) Freshwater fish

Carp – Karpe (DK) Freshwater fish

Salmon – Laks (DK) Fresh water fish

And here are all fish as single images:

My Danish Freshwater FishProject is still in development