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The haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) is a saltwater ray-finned fish from the family Gadidae, the true cods.It is the only species in the monotypic genus Melanogrammus.It is found in the North Atlantic Ocean and associated seas, where it is an important species for fisheries, especially in northern Europe, where it is marketed fresh, frozen and smoked; smoked varieties include the Finnan ...
It contains several commercially important fishes, including the cod, haddock, whiting, and pollock. Most gadid species are found in temperate waters of the Northern Hemisphere , but several range into subtropical, subarctic , and Arctic oceans, and a single ( southern blue whiting ) is found in the Southern Hemisphere .
Gadiformes / ˈ ɡ æ d ɪ f ɔːr m iː z /, also called the Anacanthini, are an order of ray-finned fish that include the cod, hakes, pollock, haddock, burbot, rocklings and moras, many of which are food fish of major commercial value.
A fish is blurring the lines between cod and haddock in the Gulf of Maine and scientists want to know why. Coddock? Sea sleuths work to uncover mystery of new cod-haddock-like fish
White fish (Atlantic cod) White fish fillet (halibut – on top) contrasted with an oily fish fillet (salmon – at bottom)Whitefish or white fish is a fisheries term for several species of demersal fish with fins, particularly Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), whiting (Merluccius bilinearis), haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), hake (Urophycis), and pollock (Pollachius), among others.
Atlantic cod was a top-tier predator, along with haddock, flounder and hake, feeding upon smaller prey such as herring, capelin, shrimp and snow crab. [7] With the large predatory fish removed, their prey has had a population explosion and have become the top predators.
The Atlantic cod (pl.: cod; Gadus morhua) is a fish of the family Gadidae, widely consumed by humans. It is also commercially known as cod or codling. [3] [n 1]In the western Atlantic Ocean, cod has a distribution north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and around both coasts of Greenland and the Labrador Sea; in the eastern Atlantic, it is found from the Bay of Biscay north to the Arctic ...
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