Brosme brosme


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Noun1.Brosme brosme - large edible marine fish of northern coastal watersBrosme brosme - large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters; related to cod
torsk, cusk
gadoid, gadoid fish - a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae
cusk - the lean flesh of a cod-like fish of North Atlantic waters
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A., and Coauthors, 2012: Cusk (Brosme brosme) and climate change: Assessing the threat to a candidate marine fish species under the US Endangered Species Act.
2. EXPLAINING EXTREME OCEAN CONDITIONS IMPACTING LIVING MARINE RESOURCES
Although historically known for groundfish (i.e., Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)), haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), silver hake (Merluccius bilinearis), and cusk (Brosme brosme), these areas have also been commercially fished for sea scallops (Placopecten magellanicus).
High densities of juvenile sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus) on banks and ledges in the Central Gulf of Maine

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