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Coalfish
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see cod.
More on Coalfish
Cod - member of the large family Gadidae, comprising commercially important food fishes. The cods include the hake and the haddock, all found in the N Atlantic and Pacific.
Local Names: Coalfish whale; Pollack whale; Rudolphi's rorqual; Sardine whale; Japan finner. The name 'sei' refers to the whales' habit of arriving off the northern Norwegian coast with the seje (coalfish).
There are two subspecies of sei whales: ...
Common Name: Sei whale, coalfish whale, pollack whale, Rudophi's rorqual; Baleinoptère de Rudolphi, rorqual boréal, rorqual de Rudolphi, rorqual sei (Fr); Ballena boba, ballena sei, rorcual boreal, rorcual de Rudolphi, rorcual norteno (Sp) ...
The Sei whale is also called the Sardine whale, the Pollack whale, the Coalfish whale, the Japan Finner, and Rudolphi's Rorqual. Large numbers of these whales were hunted until recently for their oil and meat.
Other vernacular names of the species in English include butterfish(US), black cod (UK, Canada), blue cod (UK), bluefish (UK), candlefish (UK), coal cod (UK), and coalfish (Canada), some of which are also used to refer to other species of fish, ...
they do not form any considerable article of trade, and are not preserved, the majority being consumed by the captors. Specimens of 12 lb are common, but the species is said to attain occasionally as much as 24 lb in weight. (See also COALFISH.) ...
 See also: Pollack, Cod, Whale, Haddock, Sei Whale
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