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Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua - Þorskur)
The Atlantic cod inhabits the North-Atlantic from Cape Hatteras and round the coasts of Greenland in the west, around Iceland, and from the Bay of Biscay to the Barents Sea in the east. The Atlantic cod is a demersal fish, mostly found at depth of 150-200 m. It feeds mainly on invertibrates and fish. It has variables of brownish to greenish or gray on the upper side and dorsally, and pale ventrally. It can reach a lenght of 2 m but the average length of the adult fish ranges from 81-85 cm.
Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus - Ýsa)
Haddock lives mainly in the Northeast Atlantic from the Bay of Biscay to Spitsbergen, the Barents Sea to Novaya Zemlya and around Iceland. Haddock is a demersal fish, mostly at the depth of 80-200 m. It feeds on crustaceans, molluscs, echinoderms, worms, fish and other bottom-living organisms. It has a silvery colour with a dark lateral-line from head to tail and a dark blotch above pectoral fin. The average haddock is rarely longer than 1 m.
Saithe (Pollachius virens - Ufsi)
Saithe inhabits the North-Atlantic; Barents Sea, Spitsbergen, Bay of Biscay, around Iceland, southwest Greenland and the coast of North-America to North-Carolina. Saithe is a pelagic fish found at about 200 m depth. The smaller fish feeds on crustaceans and small fish but the larger ones pray mainly upon fishes. Its colour is brownish-green dorsally, paler ventrally. It has a pale lateral-line from head to tail and a small barbel on the lower jaw. Common length of saithe is 30-110 cm and can reach 130 cm in total length.
Redfish (Sebastes marinus - Karfi)
Redfish is found in the North Sea, along the western coast of Spitsbergen, the Barents Sea to the Kanin Banks and Novaya Zembla, around Iceland, the eastern and western coast of Greenland, and along North-America to Flemish Cape, Grand Banks and Gulf of St. Laurence. Young redfish is found inshore and the adults off the coast at 100-400 m depth. It feeds mostly on herrings, euphausiids, capelins and ctenophores. It is bright red in colour and its fins have strong spines and soft rays. It can attain about 100 cm and 15 kg in weight, but today few live long enough to exceed 50 cm.
Catfish (Anarhichas lupus - Steinbítur)
Catfish, or wolffish, is common in the North-Atlantic along the coasts of Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland and North-America. The catfish is a benthic fish on rocky bottoms, sand or mud at 1-500 m. It feeds on crabs, lobsters, sea-urchins and other echinoderms. Its colour is yellowish or bluish-grey and it has strong jaw teeth. The common catfish is 50-90 cm although some can reach up to 125 cm.
Monkfish (Lophius piscatorius - Skötuselur)
Monkfish lives around Iceland and the Northeast Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. It is a benthic fish and can be found in shallow, inshore waters as well as at the depth of 500 m. It feeds mainly on fishes. Its above colour varies from uniform or mottled light to very dark brown. It's below colour is white. It has a strongly depressed body and head. Its size varies with a common length around 20-100 cm. It can attain a maximum length at 200 cm.
Greenland Halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides - Grálúða)
The halibut is a common fish and found in the North-Atlantic from England to Norway, Iceland, eastern and western Greenland and Newfoundland, and in the northern Pacific. The Greenland halibut is a flatfish, an arctic species found at 500-1000 m depth. It's a hunter and feeds on prawns, fishes and squids. The Greenland halibut is usually 80-100 cm and 11-25 kg but it can reach about 120 cm and 45 kg.
Lemon sole (Microstomus kitt - Sandflúra)
Lemon sole lives off the coast of Iceland and in the Eastern Atlantic from the Bay of Biscay to the White Sea. The lemon sole is a benthic fish on mud, sand, gravel and rocky bottoms at the depth of 20-200 m. It feeds on small invertibrates. It has a brown colour with mahogany markings and a lateral line from head to tail on the eyed side. Its most common length is 20-30 cm.
Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa - Skarkoli)
Plaice lives in the Western Mediterranean, the Eastern Atlantic along the coasts of Europe and Iceland. The plaice is a benthic fish and found from a few metres to 100 m. It feeds on thin-shelled molluscs and polychaetes. It has an oval and compressed brownish or greyish body with large, round, red or orange spots. Plaice is usually 35-50 cm and 1.1 kg.
Reference: Food and Acriculture Organization of the United Nations, http://www.fao.org |
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