The Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) is a benthopelagic fish of the family Gadidae, widely consumed by humans. It is also commercially known as cod or codling. Dry cod may be prepared as unsalted stockfish, and as cured salt cod or clipfish.. In the western Atlantic Ocean, cod has a distribution north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and around both coasts of Greenland and …

The Atlantic wolffish (Anarhichas lupus), also known as the seawolf, Atlantic catfish, ocean catfish, devil fish, wolf eel (the common name for its Pacific relative), woof or sea cat, is a marine fish of the wolffish family Anarhichadidae, native to the North Atlantic Ocean.The numbers of the Atlantic wolffish in US waters are rapidly being depleted, most likely due to overfishing and …

Atlantic City è una città degli Stati Uniti d'America, nella Contea di Atlantic nello Stato del New Jersey.Famosa per i suoi casinò, si trova sulle rive dell'Oceano Atlantico, nell'isola di Absecon, dove si trovano i comuni contigui di Ventnor City, Margate City e Longport.Nel 2020 la città contava 38.497 abitanti, mentre l'intera area metropolitana ne contava 275.549, secondo il ...

The 1944 Great Atlantic hurricane was a destructive and powerful tropical cyclone that swept across a large portion of the United States East Coast in September 1944. New England was most affected, though so were the Outer Banks, Mid-Atlantic states, and the Canadian Maritimes.The storm's ferocity and path drew comparisons to the 1938 Long Island Express, …

Der Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway ist eine 4.800 km lange Küstenwasserstraße entlang der Atlantikküste und Golfküste in den Vereinigten Staaten.Er reicht von Florida bis nach Boston in Massachusetts und dient sowohl kommerziellen Zwecken als auch zur Erholung. Die Nutzung der Wasserstraße ist kostenlos, kommerzielle Nutzer entrichten jedoch eine sogenannte Fuel Tax.

In 1992, Northern Cod populations fell to 1% of historical levels, due in large part to decades of overfishing. The Canadian Federal Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, John Crosbie, declared a moratorium on the Northern Cod fishery, which for the preceding 500 years had primarily shaped the lives and communities of Canada's eastern coast. A significant factor contributing to the …

The cod catch peaked in 1968 at 810,000 tons, approximately three times more than the maximum yearly catch achieved before the super-trawlers. Approximately eight million tons of cod were caught between 1647 and 1750, a period encompassing 25 to 40 cod generations. The factory trawlers took the same amount in 15 years.

Roe (/ r oʊ / ROH) or hard roe is the fully ripe internal egg masses in the ovaries, or the released external egg masses, of fish and certain marine animals such as shrimp, scallop, sea urchins and squid.As a seafood, roe is used both as a cooked ingredient in many dishes, and as a raw ingredient for delicacies such as caviar.. The roe of marine animals, such as the roe of …

Trawling can be divided into bottom trawling and midwater trawling, depending on how high the trawl (net) is in the water column.Bottom trawling is towing the trawl along (benthic trawling) or close to (demersal trawling) the sea floor. Bottom trawling is an industrial fishing method in which a large net with heavy weights is dragged across the seafloor, scooping up everything in …

Triangular trade or triangle trade is trade between three ports or regions. Triangular trade usually evolves when a region has export commodities that are not required in the region from which its major imports come. It has been used to offset trade imbalances between different regions.. The Atlantic slave trade used a system of three-way trans-Atlantic exchanges – …