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Long-line fishing is a commercial method of fishing using a line fitted with many hooks. Bottom long- lines are used to catch demersal fish such as cod, haddock, hake, halibut, and sea bream. They consist of a heavy, weighted line, about 90 m long, with short sidelines to which baited hooks are attached at intervals. Drifting long-lines are used for large fish, in particular tuna and albacore. They consist of about 400 sections, each of which is up to 400 m long. The whole assembly is supported by floats and can carry as many as 2,500 baited hooks. Long-lines (some using automated systems) are set and retrieved from one vessel in the duration of a day.
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The bergylt (Sebastes norvegicus) is a fish found in northern seas and belonging to the gurnard family but resembling a perch. It is of a red colour and grows to 60 centimetres in length. It is also called the Norway haddock and the Norway carp.
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Gadid is a popular name for any marine teleost fish of the family Gadidae, which includes the cod, ling and haddock.
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Gadidae is a family of malacopterous fish including the cod, ling and haddock.
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The haddock (Gadus oeglefinus) is a marine fish of the cod family found in the north Atlantic. It is easily distinguished from other species of the group by the large black spot on each side beneath the first dorsal fin, the black lateral line, and the position of the first ventral fin, which begins under the second dorsal. It occasionally reaches a length of one meter, but is usually under 70 centimetres long. The females outnumber the males almost two to one, and are of a different size.
The food consists of crustacea, molluscs, echinoderms and worms, and haddock are very fond of the eggs of the herring. On the east coast of Britain, haddock spawn in February, March and April at a moderate distance from the coast, or near if the water is deep; the haddock also spawns on various banks in the North Sea in deeper water. The female sheds upwards of 200,000 eggs which are similar in appearance to those of the cod, but are a little larger. The larval fish are also larger than the cod, and hatch after about two weeks. The female reaches maturity when three years old and about 30 centimetres in length.
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Whiting (Gadus merlangus) is a fish of the same genus as the cod and the haddock, from which it may be distinguished by the absence of a barbel on the chin, the more slender form, and the presence of a dark spot at the root of the pectoral fin. It occasionally reaches a length of 53 centimetres. It is voracious and predaceous, living mostly on other fish. Females are twice as numerous as the males.
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Scotch Woodcock is a jocular name for a preparation of toast and finnan haddock.
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The USS Haddock was an American Gato Class submarine of 1525 tons displacement launched in 1941. The USS Haddock had a top speed of 21 knots surfaced and carried a complement of between 65 and 74. She was armed with one 3 inch dual-purpose gun; two 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns; six 21 inch bow torpedo tubes and four 21 inch stern torpedo tubes.
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USS Haddock is an American Permit Class attack submarine of 4300 tons displacement launched in 1966. USS Haddock is powered by a Westinghouse pressurised-water cooled S5W nuclear reactor and two steam turbines providing a top speed of 30 knots dived. She carries a crew of 127 including 13 officers and is armed with four McDonnell Douglas Harpoon surface-to-surface missiles and four 21 inch Mk 63 torpedo tubes amidships, angled at ten degrees from the centreline firing the Gould Mk 48 torpedo.
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Bessie Braddock is London Cockney rhyming slang for the fish haddock.
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