Atlantic cod
SpeciesFood Fish
A widely consumed Gadidae fish of the North Atlantic and adjacent seas.
1.60Rare
Rare
Atlantic cod
- Food Fish
Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) is a fish in the family Gadidae that is widely consumed by humans and commercially called cod or codling. It occurs across parts of the western and eastern Atlantic Ocean, from coastal shorelines to continental-shelf depths. It can live up to 25 years and is brown or green with dorsal spots and a visible lateral stripe. Heavily fished for centuries, several stocks collapsed in the 1990s and many remain at risk.
- Scientific name
- Gadus morhua
- Maximum lifespan
- Up to 25 years
- Habitat depth
- Coastal shoreline to 300 m along the continental shelf
Sources and credits
Sources and credits
- Article
- Atlantic cod (English Wikipedia)
- Wikidata
- Q199788
- Text
- Card text is adapted from the English Wikipedia article by an automated summary. Wikipedia content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for its contributors. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Article history and contributors
- Illustration
- By Wilhelm Thomas Fiege. CC BY-SA 4.0 · File page on Wikimedia CommonsWilhelm Thomas Fiege, Own workModifications: Resized and converted to WebP
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