Atlantic cod

The Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua) is a well-known foodfish[?]. It grows to 6 1/2 feet in length and has a distribution north of Cape Hatteras[?], North Carolina, along the western Atlantic Ocean. This fish is also found along the northern Atlantic coasts in Europe.

This species has been heavily overfished, resulting in a crash in the fishery[?] in the United States and Canada. The fishery has yet to recover, and may not recover at all due to a possibly stable change in the food web[?].

Coloring is brown to green on the dorsal side, shading to silver ventrally. Its habitat ranges from the shoreline down to the continental shelf[?]. Northwestern Atlantic populations spawn in the winter/spring in the Cape Cod region in a location called Georges Bank[?].

See also: Cod, Gadus[?]