Today's Atlantic Cod Fishing Report

Fishing for Atlantic Cod

The Atlantic cod grows to two metres (6 1/2 feet) in length. Sexual maturity is attained between ages 2 to 4. Coloring is brown to green on the dorsal side, shading to silver ventrally. Its habitat ranges from the shoreline down to the continental shelf.

In the western Atlantic Ocean cod has a distribution north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and round both coasts of Greenland; in the eastern Atlantic it is found from the Bay of Biscay north to the Arctic Ocean, including the North Sea, areas around Iceland and the Barents Sea, which is the most important feeding area.

Species: Gadus morhua

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