Photo by A. S. Rudland & Sons.
WHITING.
Easily distinguished from the cod by the absence of a barbel on the chin.
About the commencement of the fifteenth century the English began to go to Iceland for cod, and since the sixteenth century English cod-fishing vessels have visited Newfoundland and other far northern waters, which produce fish superior to English cod. It should be mentioned that the Cod Family is not found to any extent in tropical seas.
While the Burbot is one of the few species of the group inhabiting fresh-water, and is peculiar in living there permanently, there are instances recorded of Pollack having ascended from the salt water of the Norwegian fjords into fresh-water lakes, and it is an undoubted fact that many other species of sea-fish can accustom themselves to a residence in fresh-water.
Photo by W. Saville-Kent, F.Z.S.] [Milford-on-Sea.
POLLACK-WHITING.
A British representative of the group in which the lower jaw is the longer and all the teeth of the upper jaw are of equal size.