U.S. Food & Drug Administration Seafood Products Research Center Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia

Family Sorted by Alpabetical Order, (Faa - Jzz)

Gadidae (cods)

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	Cusk Brosme brosme Cusk	A	Western North Atlantic from New Jersey to the Strait of Belle Isle and on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Rare at the southern tip of Greenland. Found off Iceland, in the northern North Sea, and along the coasts of Scandinavia to the Murmansk Coast and at Spitzbergen.
	Pacific Cod Gadus macrocephalus Cod (Alaska Cod)	P	Found around the rim of the North Pacific, from the Yellow Sea to the Bering Strait, along the Aleutians, and south to about Los Angeles. Rather rare in the southern part of its range.
	Atlantic Cod Gadus morhua Cod	A	Cape Hatteras to Ungava Bay along the N. American coast; east and west coasts of Greenland, extending for variable distances to the north, depending upon climate trends; around Iceland; coasts of Europe from the Bay of Biscay to the Barents Sea, including the region around Bear Island.
	Haddock Melanogrammus aeglefinus Haddock	A	In the eastern North Atlantic from the Bay of Biscay to Spitzbergen; in the Barents Sea to Novaya Zemlya; around Iceland; rare at the south of Greenland. In the western North Atlantic from Cape May, New Jersey to the Strait of Belle Isle.
Argentine Whiting	Argentine Whiting Merluccius hubbsi Whiting	South Atlantic Ocean, Strait of Mengella to So. Brazil	East coast of southern S. America, from about 28o South to 30o South off southern Brazil, to around 54o South near the Falkland/Malvinas Isles.
Southern Blue Whiting	Southern Blue Whiting Micromesistius australis Whiting, Blue	New Zealand/South Southern Australia	There are two disjunct populations, one of which (Micromesistius australis australis) is found from about 38o South to nearly 62o South around the Falkland/Malvinas Islands and Argentine Patagonia in the western South Atlantic; also off South Georgia, South Shetland and South Orkney Islands and in the southeastern Pacific, off Chile; the other population (Micromesistius australis pallidus) lives on the various banks and rises around the South Island of New Zealand.
	Pollock Pollachius virens Pollock	A	Barents Sea and Spitzbergen to Bay of Biscay, around Iceland, southwestern Greenland, and in the western Atlantic from Hudson Strait to N. Carolina, although rare at the extremes of the range.
	Walleye Pollock Theragra chalcogramma Pollock (Alaska Pollock)	P	Widely distributed in the temperate to boreal North Pacific, from Central California into the eastern Bering Sea, along the Aleutian arc, around Kamchatka, in the Okhotsk Sea and into the southern Sea of Japan.
	White Hake Urophycis tenuis Hake	A	Labrador and the Grand Banks of Newfoundland to the coast of N. Carolina. Straying to Iceland in the east and Florida in the south.

Gempylidae (snake mackerels)

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	Escolar(*) Lepidocybium(*) flavobrunneum(*) Escolar(*)	A-P	Widely distributed in tropical and temperate seas of the world but probably absent from the northern Indian Ocean.
	Oilfish(*) Ruvettus(*) pretiosus(*) Oilfish(*)	A-P	Widely distributed in tropical and temperate waters of the world.

Hexagrammidae (greenlings)

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	Lingcod Ophiodon elongatus Lingcod	P

Ictaluridae (North American freshwater catfishes)

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	Blue Catfish Ictalurus furcatus Catfish	Freshwater
	Channel Catfish Ictalurus punctatus Catfish	Freshwater