Tomcod

Tomcod
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see cod.
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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.

Pacific tomcod,
Pacific pollock, and
Alaska pollock.
Pollock is usually sold to consumers as fillets or breaded and battered portions, and it is frequently used as the main fish ingredient to make surimi products such as imitation crab.

Small striped bass are eaten by other fish such as Atlantic tomcod, Atlantic cod, silver hake and larger striped bass. Adult striped bass have few predators except humans.

The salmon shark, Lamna ditropis, feeds on fishes such as Pacific salmon, steelhead trout, herring, sardines, pollock, Alaska cod, tomcod, lancetfishes, daggerteeth, sauries, lanternfishes, pomfrets, mackerel, lumpfishes, and sculpins.

See also: Hake, Cod, Herring, Crustacean, Haddock