Burbot

Burbot From LoveToKnow 1911 BURBOT, or EEL-Pout (Lota vulgaris), a fish of the family Gadidae, which differs from the ling in the dorsal and anal fins reaching the caudal, and in the small size of all the teeth. It exceeds a length of 3 ft.

Burbot Lota lota Codfishes were once such an important source of food for people that they were called the "cows of the sea." Because they have been overfished, codfishes in the North Atlantic are now protected by strict laws.

Burbot Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology (bûr´bt): see cod. More on Burbot Cod - member of the large family Gadidae, comprising commercially important food fishes.

Burbot eat anything, including minnows, small game fish, and insects. Predators Many predatory fish will eat burbot.

Burbot The burbot (Lota lota) is a freshwater fish related to the cods. It is also known as the lawyer, and eel-pout, and closely related to the ling and the cusk. It is most common in streams and lakes of North America and Europe above 40°N latitude.

Burbot (native) The burbot (or lawyer, eelpout, or freshwater cod) is an elongate, cylindrical fish with 2 dorsal fins, a long anal fin, and pelvic fins in front of the pectoral fins.

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Burbot This odd looking fish is common in rivers and large lakes in the Northwest Territories. There are plenty in the outflows of small streams in the Mackenzie Delta during early winter.

Lotidae(rocklings and burbot) Macrouridae (grenadiers or rattails) Melanonidae (pelagic cods) Merlucciidae (merluccid hakes) Moridae (morid cods or moras) Muraenolepididae (eel cods) Phycidae (phycid hakes) ...

The natural predators of the Crayfish include alligators, burbots (a type of cod), chicken turtle, painted turtle, desman a type of otter, grackle a type of a bird.

GADIFORMES Includes eel cods, codlets, eucla cods, grenadiers, deepsea cods, pelagic cods, cods, haddocks, hakes, burbots, phycid hakes, merluccid hakes ...

See also: Eel, Cod, Salmon, Eelpout, Trout