COD, POLLOCK, HADDOCK AND HAKE. 



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names. The following names are in use in different parts of England : 

 Baddoch, Billet, Billard, Black-Pollock, Black-jack, Black-Coalsey, 

 Blockan, Blockin, Coal, Coal-fish, Coalsay, Coalsey, Coal-whiting, 

 Colemie, Colmey, Cooth, Cudden, Cuddy, Dargie, Gilpin, Glassock, 

 Glashan, Glossan, Glossin, Green-cod, Green Pollock, Grey-lord, Gull- 

 fish, Harbin, Kuth, Lob, Lob-keling, Maulrush, Parr, Pitock, Podltv. 

 Poddlie, Podling, Pollack, Prinkle, Rauning Pollack, Rawlin Pollack, 

 Rock Salmon, Raw Pollock, Saithe, Sethe, Sey, Sey Pollack, Sillock, 

 Skrae-fish, Stenlock, Tibre. 



THE POLLOCK OR COAL FISH. 



Its geographical distribution is quite different from that of either the 

 Cod or Haddock, its northern range, at least in the Eastern Atlantic, 

 being fully as wide as that of the Cod, the species having been found in 

 the northern part of Spitzbergen, beyond the parallel of So°, and on the 

 arctic coast of Europe. It rarely enters the Baltic. Bloch records a 

 specimen from Lubeck, and it is said to occur on the coast of Pomerania. 



Concerning the limits of its southern range authorities differ. Gunther 

 places this at latitude 46 in the Bay of Biscay, while others claim that it 

 enters the Mediterranean. Canestrini states that it has been observed at 

 Taranto. It does not appear, however, that the species is abundant south 

 of the English channel. It occurs about Iceland and on the west coast of 

 Davis Straits, where specimens were obtained by Sir Edward Parry on his 

 first voyage. North of Newfoundland it does not seem to be very abund- 

 ant, while to the south the limit appears to be in the vicinity of Nantucket 

 Shoals, where specimens are occasionally taken by the cod smacks. 



In Perley's " Catalogue of the Fishes of Nova Scotia." he states that he 

 had never seen the fish in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, nor heard of it ex- 

 cept near the Straits of Canso, although it was found very abundant in the 



