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The commercial catch individuals run between 1 and 2 feet long (30–60 cm), and average about 5 lb (2 kg). It is an excellent food fish. It is marketed as fresh or frozen fillets; a part of the catch is smoked. Global annual cusk catches in 1950–2003 from FAO statistics. The highest catch was 55,000 tonnes in 1980.
Mutton-bird Egging on Mount Chappell Island (1893) Muttonbirding is the seasonal harvesting of the chicks of petrels , especially shearwater species, for food, oil and feathers by recreational or commercial hunters.
The primary concern is that Egg Island is a natural nursery for sea turtles, juvenile fish including snapper and grouper, crawfish (lobster), conch, stingrays, sea birds and other wild sealife, and any disturbance to the delicate eco-system would prove fatal to these animals and by default, detrimental to the local fishing industry.
Gough Island is home to the almost flightless Gough Island moorhen and the critically endangered Gough bunting. The brown skua is the top predator of the island's ecosystem, feeding on other seabirds as well as landbirds such as the Inaccessible Island rail. However, birds of prey such as the barn owl and the Amur falcon are occasional visitors.
Guano-covered Boatswain Bird Island with natural arch at right The island is the main breeding site of the Ascension frigatebird. Boatswain Bird Island, also spelt Boatswainbird Island, is a small island some 270 metres (300 yd) off the east coast of Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean with an area of approximately 5.3 ha (13 acres).
The Tangata manu ("bird-man," from tangata "human beings" + manu "bird") was the winner of a traditional ritual competition on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to collect the first sooty tern egg of the season from the nearby islet of Motu Nui, swim back to Rapa Nui, and climb the sea cliffs of Rano Kau to the clifftop village of Orongo.
Burbot, Lota lota The burbot (Lota lota), also known as bubbot, [2] mariah, [3] loche, cusk, [4] freshwater cod, [5] freshwater ling, freshwater cusk, the lawyer, coney-fish, lingcod, [6] or eelpout, is a species of coldwater ray-finned fish native to the subarctic regions of the Northern hemisphere.
Humans have a long history of eating eggs, both wild bird eggs and farm-raised bird eggs. [citation needed] Brood parasitism occurs in birds when one species lays its eggs in the nest of another. In some cases, the host's eggs are removed or eaten by the female, or expelled by her chick.