Atlantic cod

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1974
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; atlantic cod; Barents Sea; Faroe Islands; Gadus morhua; Greenland; Iceland; Lofoten; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/2948

Atlantic cod The _Atlantic cod_ ([i]Gadus morhua[i], Linnaeus) is the type of fish of a large family of fishes called the Gadidae that includes the haddock, the pollock, and the hake. Cod are found on both sides of the North At- lantic from the northern Barents Sea south to the Bay of Biscay, around Iceland and the southern tip of Greenland, all the way down to North Carolina. They usually live near the ocean floor and have been caught in water as shallow as six feet and as deep as 1,500 feet. Many cod are found near shore over rough bottom, but the most fa- mous cod grounds are the offshore banks such as the Grand Bank of Newfoundland, Georges Bank, and those around the Faroe Islands and the Lofoten Islands. PRINTED ITEM DEC 1974 G. M. Story JH DEC 1974 Not Used Not Used Withdrawn Checked by Jordyn Hughes on Thu 09 Jun 2016