Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) > Gadiformes (Cods) > Gadidae
(Cods and haddocks) Etymology: Pollachius: Scottish dialect,
podlock, paddle = bumpfish (Ref. 45335). Environment / Climate /
Range Marine; demersal; oceanodromous (Ref. 51243); depth range
37 - 364 m (Ref. 5951). Temperate; 77°N - 33°N, 76°W - 35°E
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age Maturity: Lm
39.1  range ? - ? cm Max length : 130 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref.
1371); common length : 60.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 4645);
max. published weight: 32.0 kg (Ref. 7251); max. reported age:
25 years (Ref. 1371) spines: 0. Chin barbel small. Lateral line
smooth along its entire length. Body color is brownish-green
dorsally, becoming only slightly paler ventrally. The lateral
line pale. Eastern Atlantic: Barents Sea, Spitsbergen to Bay of
Biscay, around Iceland. Western Atlantic: southwest Greenland,
Hudson Strait to North Carolina, although rare at the extremes
of the range. Migrations for spawning are known to occur. Also
long-distance north-s