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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Gadidae — thepollocks .
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Coal fish (Pollachius virens; new ecords of spawning fish), Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), spurdog (Squalus acanthias)
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In periods of low capelin abundance, harp seals feed on other fish, such as cod, haddock, and saithe] (Pollachius virens), and migrate southward along the Norwegian coast [4].
Fisheries and aquaculture in the Northeast Atlantic (Barents and Norwegian Seas) 2009
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