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Diagnostic Description

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Body extremely elongated and compressed posteriorly. Fine cycloid scales on body and posterior part of head. Lateral line parallel and closer to dorsal profile. Head depressed and rather large. Snout blunt, slightly longer than fleshy orbit diameter. Eye small, 8.2 to 8.7 times in head; fleshy orbit 5 to 7 times in head. Mouth evenly curved and large, reaching to posterior margin of eye; upper jaw slightly anterior to lower jaw; strong uniserial conical teeth distally placed on both jaws, anterior teeth longer than posterior ones on lower jaw; villiform inner tooth bands on both jaws; several strong conical teeth sparcely set on vomer and uniserial on palatines. Interorbital region flat and wide, its width nearly as wide as fleshy orbit diameter. Gillrakers short with minute serrations; pseudobranchiae present. A strong opercular spine half embedded in skin. Nostrils well separated from each other; anterior nostril small, round, without a flap. Dorsal fin, with 115 to 155 soft rays, originating above middle of pectoral fin. Anal fin, with 90 to 117 soft rays, originating slightly anterior to midbody. Pectoral fin, with 19-24 rays, round and rather short (2.1-2.3 times in head). Pelvic fin jugular with 2 elongate thread-like rays, larger ray about as long as lower jaw length. Colour pinkish yellow, marbled with irregular reddish brown blotches dorsally.

References

  • Ayling, T. & G. J. Cox. - 1982Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand. William Collins Publish. Ltd., Auckland, Sydney, London: 343 pp.
  • Lloris, D. & J. Rucabado. - 1991 Ictiofauna del Canal Beagle (Tierra del Fuego), Aspectos ecológicos y análisis biogeográfico. Publ. Espec. Inst. Esp. Oceanogr. nº. 8: 1-182.
  • Nakamura, I. - 1986 Ophidiidae. In: I. Nakamura; T. Inada; M. Takeda; H. Hatanaka (eds.). Important Fishes trawled off Patagonia. Japan mar. Fish. Resource Res. Center: 144-145.

Distribution

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South America, both Chilean and Argentine Patagonia; also known from New Zealand and Australia.

Size

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Maximum to about 200 cm and 25 kg; common to 50 to 120 cm.

Brief Summary

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Occurs mainly on the bottoms of sand or muddybetween 10 to 700 m but are most abundant from 200 m on down.Feeds predominantly on crustaceans, fishes and cephalopods. These fishes are late winter and early spring spawners and successful individuals appear to live at least 25 years. Large specimens are usually confined to deeper water.

Benefits

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A good food fish. Caught (usually) with bottom trawl in considerable quantities, mainly on long-lines in deep water. The total catch reported for this species to FAO for 1999 was 53 237 t. The countries with the largest catches were Argentina (21 503 t) and New Zealand (21 424 t). Marketed fresh and frozen; can fried and baked.

Diagnostic Description

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Body pinkish yellow, marbled with irregular reddish brown blotches dorsally (Ref. 27363).
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Migration

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Oceanodromous. Migrating within oceans typically between spawning and different feeding areas, as tunas do. Migrations should be cyclical and predictable and cover more than 100 km.
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Morphology

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Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 141 - 164; Analspines: 0; Analsoft rays: 101 - 126; Vertebrae: 68 - 70
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Trophic Strategy

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Found on the continental shelf and slope (Ref. 75154).
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Biology

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Common species (Ref. 34024). Found between depths of 22 m (Ref. 58489) and 1000 m (Ref. 33848). Feed mainly on crustaceans such as Munida and scampi and also on fish. Also caught above the bottom when feeding on hoki (Macruronus novaezelandiae) during the hoki spawning season. Available all year round. Juveniles are found in shallower shelf waters (Ref. 6390). Oviparous, with oval pelagic eggs floating in a gelatinous mass (Ref. 205). Utilized fresh, frozen or smoked; can be fried and baked (Ref. 9988, 34024).
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Importance

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fisheries: highly commercial; price category: medium; price reliability: reliable: based on ex-vessel price for this species
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Pink cusk-eel

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The pink cusk-eel, Genypterus blacodes, is a demersal species of cusk-eel found in the oceans around southern Australia, Chile, Brazil, and around New Zealand except the east coast of Northland, in depths of 22 to 1,000 metres (70 to 3,280 feet; 10 to 550 fathoms). Their length is up to 200 centimetres (80 inches), and they live for up to 30 years. Their maximum weight is 25 kilograms (55 pounds). [1]

This species has a pinkish yellow body marbled with irregular reddish brown blotches dorsally, with no dorsal spines or anal spines.[1]

Other names in English include ling, Australian rockling, New Zealand ling, kingklip, pink ling, and northern ling. The South African kingklip is a similar, related species (Genypterus capensis).[2]

This species feeds on crustaceans such as Munida and scampi but also takes fish. It has been caught on the bottom during the spawning season of the blue grenadier (Macruronus novaezelandiae) while feeding on the species. Juveniles of this species are found in shallower shelf waters. This species is oviparous, and its eggs float on the surface in a pelagic mass.[1]

In the month-long NORFANZ Expedition of 2003 which was examining the biodiversity of the seamounts and slopes of the Norfolk Ridge near New Zealand, a single specimen weighing 6.3 kg (13 lb 14 oz) was collected.[3]

This species is of major importance to commercial fisheries, with catches in 2011 amounting to 38,451 tonnes (42,385 short tons).[4] It is utilized fresh, frozen or smoked, and can be fried or baked. [1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2012). "Genypterus blacodes" in FishBase. June 2012 version.
  2. ^ "Kingklip / New Zealand Ling". SASSI Fish Info. Southern African Sustainable Seafood Initiative. Archived from the original on 2012-07-28. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
  3. ^ NORFANZ Voyage Archived 2012-04-15 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2011-10-29.
  4. ^ "FAO Catches List". www.fishbase.se. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
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Pink cusk-eel: Brief Summary

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The pink cusk-eel, Genypterus blacodes, is a demersal species of cusk-eel found in the oceans around southern Australia, Chile, Brazil, and around New Zealand except the east coast of Northland, in depths of 22 to 1,000 metres (70 to 3,280 feet; 10 to 550 fathoms). Their length is up to 200 centimetres (80 inches), and they live for up to 30 years. Their maximum weight is 25 kilograms (55 pounds).

This species has a pinkish yellow body marbled with irregular reddish brown blotches dorsally, with no dorsal spines or anal spines.

Other names in English include ling, Australian rockling, New Zealand ling, kingklip, pink ling, and northern ling. The South African kingklip is a similar, related species (Genypterus capensis).

This species feeds on crustaceans such as Munida and scampi but also takes fish. It has been caught on the bottom during the spawning season of the blue grenadier (Macruronus novaezelandiae) while feeding on the species. Juveniles of this species are found in shallower shelf waters. This species is oviparous, and its eggs float on the surface in a pelagic mass.

In the month-long NORFANZ Expedition of 2003 which was examining the biodiversity of the seamounts and slopes of the Norfolk Ridge near New Zealand, a single specimen weighing 6.3 kg (13 lb 14 oz) was collected.

This species is of major importance to commercial fisheries, with catches in 2011 amounting to 38,451 tonnes (42,385 short tons). It is utilized fresh, frozen or smoked, and can be fried or baked.

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