Fourbeard rockling (Enchelyopus cimbrius)

Scientific name: Enchelyopus cimbrius Linnaeus, 1766

Fourbeard rockling (Enchelyopus cimbrius)

The Fourbeard rockling (Enchelyopus cimbrius) is a marine fish of the family Lotidae.

Biology

Sedentary bottom dwellers on muddy sand between patches of hard substrate, or on the soft, smooth ground of deep sinks on the continental slopes of both sides of the North Atlantic. Feed on flatfishes, amphipods, decapods, copepods, mysids, shrimps, isopods and other small crustaceans. Spawn in the Baltic Sea. Mixed with soups and other products hot-smoked.

Source: FishBase, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

Species facts

Scientific name
Enchelyopus cimbrius
Family
Lotidae (Hakes and burbots)
Order
Gadiformes (Cods)
Class
Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
Maximum length
41.0
Common length
30.0
Depth range
20–650 m (66–2133 ft)
Environment
Marine; demersal; oceanodromous; depth range 20 - 650 m, usually 20 - 50 m
Climate
Temperate
Distribution
Northwest Atlantic: northern Gulf of Mexico to Newfoundland, western Greenland. Northeast Atlantic: coasts of Europe and the British Isles from the Barents Sea to the northern Bay of Biscay. One locality at Cape Blanc, Mauritania. Reported from Estonia.
Conservation status (IUCN)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Uses
Fisheries: minor commercial
Resilience
Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (K=0.20-0.25; tm=3; tmax=9; Fec=5,000)

Sources

Taxonomy, distribution and biology data: FishBase (Froese, R. and D. Pauly, eds.), licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

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