Alaska pollock
walleye pollock
gadus chalcogrammus latin

Alaska pollock is world's second most important fish species in terms of total catch.

The Alaska pollock has been said to be "the largest remaining source of palatable fish in the world."

It has been found that catches of Alaska pollock go up three years after stormy summers.

The successful growth of the industry was based on the Alaska pollock (or walleye pollock).

Alaska pollock fillets represent one-third of the fish.

In Canada, it is used for the Alaska pollock, Theragra chalcogramma.

The speckled colouring of Alaska pollock makes it more difficult for predators to see them when they are near sandy ocean floors.

Compared with pollock, Alaska pollock has a milder taste, whiter color and lower oil content.

Po (food) - Korean dried marine fish (especially Alaska pollock)

Alaska pollock has well-developed drumming muscles that the fish use to produce sounds during courtship like many other gadids.

Alaska pollock generally spawn in late winter and early spring in the southeastern Bering Sea.

Alaska pollock (Theragra chalcogramma), along with the cod, is the most important food source for wintering eagles in Japan.

The Alaska pollock is a significant part of the commercial fishery in the Gulf of Alaska.

Midwater trawls - used by processing trawlers and freezing for redfish and Alaska pollock.

Subsequently, production of Alaska pollock surimi declined and was supplemented by surimi production using other species.

Alaska pollock (Theragra chalcogramma)

Tarako (たらこ) - Salted Alaska pollock roe.

The flaky, red-edged faux crab often served in seafood salad or California roll is most likely made of Alaska Pollock.

Alaska pollock or walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) is a species of the cod family Gadidae.

Around 3 million tons of Alaska pollock are caught each year in the North Pacific from Alaska to northern Japan.

Shakotan is noted for its catch of sea urchin (uni), squid, Olive flounder, cod, and Alaska pollock.

Another species included, the Norway pollock (Theragra finnmarchica) has proven not to be distinct from the Alaska pollock.

Alaska pollock catches from U.S. fisheries have been quite consistent at about 1.5 million tons a year, almost all of it from the Bering Sea.

Alaska pollock is a semipelagic schooling fish widely distributed in the North Pacific with largest concentrations found in the eastern Bering Sea.

While related to the common Atlantic pollock species of the same family, the Alaska pollock is not a member of the same Pollachius genus.

Halibut, cod, herring, and walleye Pollock are some other types of fish.

The successful growth of the industry was based on the Alaska pollock (or walleye pollock).

It has been suggested that Pacific ocean perch and walleye pollock compete for the same euphausiid prey.

Fish: Further offshore, walleye pollock, Pacific cod, several species of flatfish are of the greatest commercial importance.

Alaska pollock or walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) is a species of the cod family Gadidae.

This is the Alaska pollock or walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) including the form known as the Norwegian pollock.

Important diet components include walleye pollock, Atka mackerel, halibut, herring, capelin, flatfish Pacific cod, rockfish, sculpins, and cephalopods.

Their decline has coincided with the enormous growth of commercial trawling for walleye pollock, a cheap fish that is used for filet sandwiches and to make imitation crab meat.

Rockfish, Atka mackerel, walleye pollock, Pacific cod, Pacific halibut, sablefish, flatfish, crabs, and other economically important species in the North Pacific inhabit these areas.

Consequently, the large removals of Pacific ocean perch by foreign fishermen in the Gulf of Alaska in the 1960s may have allowed walleye pollock stocks to greatly expand in abundance.

Also called Walleye Pollock, Snow Cod, or Whiting, this fish is abundant in the Bering Sea near Alaska and can also be found along the central California coast and in the Sea of Japan.

The Kamchatka flounder's diet consists of fish and zoobenthos organisms such as squid, cuttlefish, shrimps, prawns, amphipods, mysids, mollusks and marine worms, though the most important prey item is the walleye pollock, which accounted for 56-86% of stomach contents by weight in one study.

Commercially important species of seafood from Alaska include five species of salmon, five species of crab, walleye pollock, Pacific halibut, Pacific cod, sablefish, herring, four species of shrimp, several species of flatfish and rockfish, lingcod, geoducks, sea cucumbers, and sea urchins.

Moreover, current evidence suggests that T. finnmarchica is the same species as Alaska pollock (Theragra chalcogramma or Gadus chalcogrammus).