HADDOCK

Updated 05-May-2020.

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Haddock: U.S. wild-caught haddock is a smart seafood choice because it is sustainably managed and responsibly harvested under U.S. regulations.

Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus): The haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) is a saltwater fish found in the North Atlantic Ocean and associated seas. (Source: Wikipedia, ”, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haddock, CC BY-SA 3.0 . Photo: (c) Biopix, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC))

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: the haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) is a saltwater fish from the family Gadidae . it is the only species in the monotypic genus Melanogram the upper side of the haddock’s body varies in colour from dark grey brown to nearly black while the lower part of the body is dull silvery white . it has a distinctive black lateral line contrasting with the whitish background colour and curves slightly over the pectoral fins . it also has an oval black blotch or ‘thumbprint’, in eastern Canadian waters haddock range in size from 38 centimetres (15 in) to 69 centimeters (27 in) in length . it is most abundant north of the English Channel . the largest stocks are the haddock is found from western Greenland south to Cape Hatteras . the main commercially fished stock occurs from Cape Cod and the Grand Banks. it prefers temperatures between 4 °C (39 in the northwestern Atlantic spawning lasts from January to July . eggs are pelagic with a diameter of 1.2 millimetres (0.047 in) to 1.7 milli metres (0.067 in) eggs the fish which spawn in inshore waters are normally smaller and younger fish . their lifespan is around 14 years . the most important spawning grounds are in the waters off the central coast of Norway . benthic invertebrates form an increasing part of their diet as they grow . adults prey on fish such as sand eels, trisopterus esmarkii and gobies growth rates of haddock, however, have slowed in recent years . slow growth rates may be the result of an exceptionally large year class in 2003 . stock periodically has higher than normal productivity; for example in 1962 and 1967 there was above average recruitment from the 1960s up to the early 1980s . there was strong recruitment in 1999 but since then, the recruitment rate has been very low . because of high fishing mortality, revivals do not have any lasting nourished cod worms mate on the lumpsucker . female worm with fertilized eggs finds a cod . front part of parasite develops like branches of a tree . the main fishing grounds in the eastern Atlantic are in the barents sea, around Iceland, around the Faeroe Islands, in the North Sea, Celtic Sea, and in the English Channel . landings in eastern Atlantic have the commercial catch of haddock in North America was approximately 40–60 thousand tonnes per year between 1920 and 1960 . despite a few good year classes post 1970, landings have not returned to historical levels . many hadd all stocks assessed in the eastern Atlantic are currently considered to be harvested sustainably . the haddock populations in the western Atlantic (offshore grounds of Georges Bank off New England and Nova Scotia) are also considered to have been harvested sustain the smoking of haddock was highly refined in Grimsby . traditional smoked fish is produced in the traditional smokehouses . scrod is the name given to the size of the fish which have a variety of Grimsby fish market sources its haddock from the north eastatlantic, principally Iceland, Norway and the Faroe Islands . the fishing grounds are sustainably managed and have not seen the large scale depreciation in fish Retrieved 5 November 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2012. Archived from the original on 6 November 2012.