Haddock
Latin - Melanogrammus aeglefinus
Norsk - Hyse / kolje
Deutsch - Schellfisch
Français - Aiglefin / Églefin
Nederlands - Schelvis
Italiano - Asinello / Eglefino
Español - El eglefino / Anón Eglefino
Português - Arinca / Alecrim / Eglefino / Hadoque / Anão
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Haddock is one of the most important food fish in Norway. It is a bottom
fish that lives at depths of between 40 and 300 metres, and is usually
under
80 cm long.
It
can however reach a maximum size of 110 cm.
Its most important spawning grounds are in the waters off middle Norway,
northern Norway, and near south-west Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
Haddock fishery is primarily performed in costal waters, but haddock is also
caught on the fish banks in the eastern parts of the Norwegian economic zone
and in the North Sea.
Season:
Haddock is
fished all year round, but in the summer, there is a special haddock fishery off
the coast of eastern Finnmark using floating long lines.
Haddock is also fished all year in the North Sea, where it is caught along
with other species of food fish.
Along the coasts of north Norway,
haddock is caught using long lines
and nets in the summer.
Size: Up
to 110 cm and 19 kg, seldom longer than 80 cm
Fishing methods
Danish
seine, bottom trawls, long lines and gilnets.
Use
Sold fresh as fillets or whole fish, as frozen fillets or salted and smoked.
Haddock can be fried and boiled and is well-suited for processing as fish
cakes, fish balls,
and Norwegian fish pudding.
Nutritional content
This fish is an excellent
source of protein. It also contains plenty of vitamin B12, pyridoxine,
selenium and has a good balance of sodium and potassium.
Furthermore
it has a total fat content of 0,2 %.
Nutritional
content table.
Commercial product:
Haddock is sold fresh, frozen,
filleted, dried and smoked, processed,
eggs (roes) caviar.
Fresh haddock
Whole fish:
•
Head-on gutted or N-Cut (collar bone on)
•
Packed in 10 or 20 kg polybox
•
Size: -1 kg/+1 kg/1-1,5 kg/1,5-2 kg/+2 kg
Fillets:
•
Whole fillets or loins
•
Skinless or skin-on, PBI (Pin Bone In) or PBO (Pin Bone Out)
•
E- quality is packed in 5 or 10 kg polybox, skinless industry fillets
in 25 kg polybox and loins are packed in 5 kg polybox.
Frozen haddock
Whole fish:
•
Headed and gutted: N-cut
•
Frozen at sea or landfrozen in vertical freezer
•
Packed in carton or bag
•
Size: -0,8 kg/+0,8 kg/+1 kg
Fillets:
•
Skinless or skin-on, PBI (Pin Bone In) or PBO (Pin Bone In)
•
Frozen at sea in horizontal freezer or landfrozen IQF (Individually
Quick Frozen)
•
Seafrozen haddock packed in master carton containing 3 blocks,
each block weighing 15 lbs, packed interleaved. Landfrozen haddock
packed in 5 or 10 kg carton
•
Size: 3-5 oz/5-8 oz/8-12 oz/12-16 oz/16-32 oz/+32 oz
•
Landfrozen: size according to order.
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