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Trisopterus esmarkii (Norway pout)

Synonyms: Boreogadus esmarki; Gadus esmarkii; Trisopterus esmarki
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Wikipedia Abstract

Trisopterus esmarkii, the Norway pout, is a species of fish in the cod family. It is found in the Barents Sea, North Sea, Baltic Sea, off the coasts of Norway, Iceland, the British Isles and elsewhere in the northeast Atlantic Ocean. It prefers depths between 100 and 200 m (330–660 ft), but occur from 50 to 300 m (160–980 ft). Norway pout can reach 35 cm (14 in), but are more common at around 19 cm (7.5 in). It is extensively fished, mostly for conversion into fishmeal, with 877,910 t taken in 1974, and only 39,223 t taken in 2008.
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Attributes

Female Maturity [1]  1 year 10 months
Male Maturity [3]  1 year 10 months
Maximum Longevity [1]  5 years
Migration [2]  Oceanodromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Lyme Bay and Torbay 77215 England, United Kingdom
Pembrokeshire Marine/ Sir Benfro Forol 341177 Wales, United Kingdom  
The Broads 14554 England, United Kingdom  
Waddensea of Schleswig-Holstein Biosphere Reserve 724639 Germany

Prey / Diet

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Diclidophora esmarkii[14]
Hysterothylacium rigidum[14]
Prosorhynchoides gracilescens[14]
Stephanostomum pristis[14]

External References

Citations

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♦ 2Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
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♦ 6Diet of minke whales Balaenoptera acutorostrata in Scottish (UK) waters with notes on strandings of this species in Scotland 1992-2002, G.J. Pierce, M.B. Santos, R.J. Reid, I.A.P. Patterson and H.M. Ross, J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. (2004), 84, 1241-1244
♦ 7Seasonal distribution of white-beaked dolphins (Lagenorhynchus albirostris) in UK waters with new information on diet and habitat use, Sarah J. Canning, M. Begoña Santos, Robert J. Reid, Peter G.H. Evans, Richard C. Sabin, Nick Bailey and Graham J. Pierce, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 2008, 88(6), 1159–1166
♦ 8"The diet and trophic ecology of anglerfish Lophius piscatorius at the Shetland Islands, UK", C.H. Laurenson and I.G. Priede, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom / Volume 85 / Issue 02 / April 2005, pp 419-424
♦ 9The harbour seal Phoca vitulina as a predator in the Skagerrak. Haerkoenen, T | Heide-Joergensen, M-P, Ophelia. Vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 191-207 1991
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♦ 11Feeding and Food Consumption by the Barents Sea Skates, A.V. Dolgov, J. Northw. Atl. Fish. Sci., Vol. 35: 495–503
♦ 12CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
♦ 13Seasonal and geographical variations in the diet of Common Guillemots Uria aalge off western Scotland, D J Halley, N. Harrison, A. Webb and D.R. Thompson, SEABIRD 17: 12-20
♦ 14Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0