cusk

Brosme brosme

Young with six transverse yellow bands

cusk is known around Northwest Atlantic as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and records give a maximum length of 120 cm.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Cods and Hakes
Family: Lotidae
Genus: Brosme
Maximum length: 120 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: elongated
Distribution: Northwest Atlantic: New Jersey to the Strait of Belle Isle and on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Rare at the southern tip of Greenland. Northeast Atlantic: off Iceland, in the northern North Sea, and along the coast of Scandinavia to the Murmansk Coast and at Spitzbergen.

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