As a human food fish, saithe has never been really popular in Britain and therefore its market value has been low.

Even if the saithe has been reared on salmon pellets, I am sure the young 'rain goose' won't mind.

A sizable saithe dangling from its beak indicates another meal for its young up on the hill loch beyond the village.

Sand Smelt, and young Pollack, and Saithe, are also found depending on the location.

Red-throated divers and shags feed a lot on young saithe and also on sand-eel.

Maerl is an important nursery area for many species including commercially important ones such as queen scallops, cod, saithe and pollack.

Sometimes I went trolling for lythe with rubber eels, or fly fishing for saithe and mackerel in the clear water around the rocks.

Pollachius virens (Saithe)

On the rocks beside them lay two or three small codfish, a large flounder, two good-sized lythe, and nearly a dozen saithe.

I'd give me permission for Lynum or Saithe t'join up with the Long Patrol, they're both of a right age.

These bones were mainly of cod, saithe and ling but herring, haddock and whiting bones were also found.

Lynum and Saithe, Tammo's elder brother and sister, had sneaked up and grabbed him.

The Saltstraumen is popular with anglers, due to its abundance of fish such as saithe, cod, wolffish, rose fish, and halibut.

Saithe gave Tammo's ear an extra tweak as she admonished him: "Colonel wants a word with you, wretch, about his battle-ax!"

Species caught in these waters include Cod, Haddock, Saithe, Greenland Halibut and Redfish.

Coincident with the arrival of the Arctic terns, swarms of young saithe (called sillocks in Shetland), only two or three centimetres in length, appear close inshore.

In addition to krill, minke whales are known to eat a wide range of fish species including capelin, herring, sand lance, mackerel, gadoids, cod, saithe and haddock.

But now that the North Sea is open too the members of the EEC, the saithe, which is popular especially in France and Germany, is being fished heavily.

As I mentioned earlier, the saithe or coalfish Gadus virens has long been an important fish in Shetland, the surface-shoaling immatures being utilised by many sea-birds.

In time, as numbers increase, they will naturally spill out into the surrounding sea, so commercially important species such as scallops and hopefully fish stocks like cod and saithe will increase."

Sheep, cattle, pigs and ponies were kept, Atlantic cod, saithe and ling were eaten, and whale and seal bones have also been found along with the remains of a single dog.

German trawlers, however, tended to be more interested in saithe and ocean perch rather than cod, haddock and flatfish; because of this, they tended to stick to oceanic, rather than coastal waters.

Good examples of some success can be seen in stocks such as saithe, North Sea haddock and mackerel, which are fished close to MSY level and which are generally stable and profitable.

In the summer, the coalfish, or saithe, bites, and fresh saithe is often served on the beach, boiled in seawater over an open fire, or fried (typically the smaller coalfish).

This includes 250 species of fish, the most numerous inshore variety being Saithe, and deeper water creatures such as the Dogfish, Porbeagle and Blue Shark, European Eel, Sea Bass, Atlantic Halibut and various rays.

Cod, as well as coalfish, are the most common fish species throughout the year.

Worm baits picked up a few small coalfish, codling and whiting.

Sportfishing for cod, coalfish, and halibut is popular here.

Good coalfish available at many places.

Portpatrick rock marks gave occasional codling but mostly small coalfish and pollack.

Whiting, coalfish and a few dabs to worm.

Mull of Galloway rock marks for dogfish, small codling and coalfish.

Cambois North Hole for cod to 6 lb and a few coalfish on frozen crab.

Sei is the Norwegian word for pollock, also referred to as coalfish, a close relative of codfish.

Year-round, they bring in plaice, coalfish (known as "bloggan") and wrasse.

They include pollack, wrasse, coalfish, dogfish, bass, flounder and others.

Sunderland's Roker Pier produced odd codling, and a few coalfish.

Today mainly mackerel, Atlantic cod, whiting, coalfish, European plaice, and sole are caught.

Very little from Portland rock marks with the exception of Church Ope cove where odd cod and coalfish landed.

The island is also an ideal spot for fishing, with Pollock, Coalfish, Wrasse and Mackerel being caught.

Other names include the Boston blues (separate from bluefish), coalfish (or coley) and saithe in the UK.

In addition to cod, coalfish, haddock, herring, wolf fish and halibut are all common along the coast and in the fjords.

Sergeant S. Wallace and Marine R. Ewart in canoe Coalfish.

Wildlife includes fresh water fish (trout, salmon), sea fish (cod, coalfish, crustacean), grouse, and moose.

The Arasvikfjorden is known for its fishery of cod, coalfish, pollock, mackerel, common ling, tusk, catfish, and several types of flatfish.

The Lough Swilly anglers took several hundred coalfish to 10lbs, six ling to 10lbs and 500lbs of pollack including Angela's specimen.

One evening, codfish was substituted for coalfish (or hake), roasted and served with a basil sauce and ratatouille garnished with deep-fried leeks.

The flesh of Coalfish (P. virens) is darkly coloured (hence the common name) while that of P. pollachius is similar to other members of the Cod family.

The Sei whale is also called the Sardine whale, the Pollack whale, the Coalfish whale, the Japan Finner, and Rudolphi's Rorqual.

In the past week, John McLaughlin's 'Barracuda', captained by Des Mills, fishing out of Culdaff, Donegal, found large shoals of pollack, coalfish, ling and codling.

As a human food fish, saithe has never been really popular in Britain and therefore its market value has been low.

Even if the saithe has been reared on salmon pellets, I am sure the young 'rain goose' won't mind.

The original name may come from Port Saoithe, meaning "saithe harbour".

Sand Smelt, and young Pollack, and Saithe, are also found depending on the location.

Red-throated divers and shags feed a lot on young saithe and also on sand-eel.

A sizable saithe dangling from its beak indicates another meal for its young up on the hill loch beyond the village.

I'd give me permission for Lynum or Saithe t'join up with the Long Patrol, they're both of a right age.

Maerl is an important nursery area for many species including commercially important ones such as queen scallops, cod, saithe and pollack.

The Saltstraumen is popular with anglers, due to its abundance of fish such as saithe, cod, wolffish, rose fish, and halibut.

Lynum and Saithe, Tammo's elder brother and sister, had sneaked up and grabbed him.

On the rocks beside them lay two or three small codfish, a large flounder, two good-sized lythe, and nearly a dozen saithe.

Sometimes I went trolling for lythe with rubber eels, or fly fishing for saithe and mackerel in the clear water around the rocks.

Saithe gave Tammo's ear an extra tweak as she admonished him: "Colonel wants a word with you, wretch, about his battle-ax!"

These bones were mainly of cod, saithe and ling but herring, haddock and whiting bones were also found.

Species caught in these waters include Cod, Haddock, Saithe, Greenland Halibut and Redfish.

As I mentioned earlier, the saithe or coalfish Gadus virens has long been an important fish in Shetland, the surface-shoaling immatures being utilised by many sea-birds.

In addition to krill, minke whales are known to eat a wide range of fish species including capelin, herring, sand lance, mackerel, gadoids, cod, saithe and haddock.

Coincident with the arrival of the Arctic terns, swarms of young saithe (called sillocks in Shetland), only two or three centimetres in length, appear close inshore.

But now that the North Sea is open too the members of the EEC, the saithe, which is popular especially in France and Germany, is being fished heavily.

In time, as numbers increase, they will naturally spill out into the surrounding sea, so commercially important species such as scallops and hopefully fish stocks like cod and saithe will increase."

Sheep, cattle, pigs and ponies were kept, Atlantic cod, saithe and ling were eaten, and whale and seal bones have also been found along with the remains of a single dog.

German trawlers, however, tended to be more interested in saithe and ocean perch rather than cod, haddock and flatfish; because of this, they tended to stick to oceanic, rather than coastal waters.

Good examples of some success can be seen in stocks such as saithe, North Sea haddock and mackerel, which are fished close to MSY level and which are generally stable and profitable.

In the summer, the coalfish, or saithe, bites, and fresh saithe is often served on the beach, boiled in seawater over an open fire, or fried (typically the smaller coalfish).

Other names for P. pollachius include the Atlantic pollock, European pollock, lieu jaune, and lythe; while P. virens is sometimes known as Boston blues (distinct from bluefish), coalfish (or coley), silver bills or saithe.

Pollachius virens (Saithe)

In the rest of the Norwegian Sea, it is found only during the reproduction season, at the Lofoten Islands, whereas Pollachius virens and haddock spawn in the coastal waters.

Maerl beds act as nursery areas for the juvenile stages of commercial species such as juvenile cod Gadus morhua, saithe Pollachius virens, pollack Pollachius pollachius and juvenile scallops Aequipecten opercularis.