Un Pez migratorio o pez diádromo (del griego antiguo διά diá «a través» i δρομάς, dromas correr) es aquel pez que migra hacia otro tipo de cuerpo de agua. Según la especie, las razones de la migración pueden ser la cría, la alimentación o la hibernación. Los que no migran se llaman peces estacionarios. Se suelen categorizar en cinco grupos: \n* Anádromos que migran de alta mar río arriba, como el salmón que cría en el curso superior de un río. \n* Catádromos que migran del río al mar para desovar (p.ej. la anguila). \n* Potamódromos que migran en el interior de una misma cuenca hidrográfica, sólo en el agua dulce. \n* Oceanodromos que migran al mar, por ejemplo para seguir los «nubes» de plancton. \n* Amfídromos que migran varias veces entre el mar y los ríos en ambas direcciones, sin ánimo de fresar para razones de alimentación o para hibernar.

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Many types of fish migrate on a regular basis, on time scales ranging from daily to annually or longer, and over distances ranging from a few metres to thousands of kilometres. Fish usually migrate to feed or to reproduce, but in other cases the reasons are unclear. Migrations involves the fish moving from one part of a water body to another on a regular basis. Some particular types of migration are anadromous, in which adult fish live in the sea and migrate into fresh water to spawn, and catadromous, in which adult fish live in fresh water and migrate into salt water to spawn. Marine forage fish often make large migrations between their spawning, feeding and nursery grounds. Movements are associated with ocean currents and with the availability of food in different areas at different times of year. The migratory movements may partly be linked to the fact that the fish cannot identify their own offspring and moving in this way prevents cannibalism. Some species have been described by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea as highly migratory species. These are large pelagic fish that move in and out of the exclusive economic zones of different nations, and these are covered differently in the treaty from other fish. Salmon and striped bass are well-known anadromous fish, and freshwater eels are catadromous fish that make large migrations. The bull shark is an euryhaline species that moves at will from fresh to salt water, and many marine fish make a diel vertical migration, rising to the surface to feed at night and sinking to lower layers of the ocean by day. Some fish such as tuna move to the north and south at different times of year following temperature gradients. The patterns of migration are of great interest to the fishing industry. Movements of fish in fresh water also occur; often the fish swim upriver to spawn, and these traditional movements are increasingly being disrupted by the building of dams.

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