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tomcod:

see codcod,
member of the large family Gadidae, comprising commercially important food fishes. The family, whose members are found in the N Atlantic and Pacific, includes the tomcods, the haddock, and the pollacks (or pollocks).
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2013 in Esker Creek and Grand Wash River, and 2012 salmon run data, coho salmon, Pacific tomcod, snake prickleback, northern rock sole, crangon shrimp, pink shrimp, mysids, and dungeness crab were identified as potential prey species for Yakutat beluga.
Acoustic monitoring and prey association for beluga whale, Delphinapterus leucas, and harbor porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, off two river mouths in Yakutat Bay, Alaska
This allows the tomcod to survive, "but they still accumulate PCBs in their bodies and pass them on to whatever eats them," Hahn said.
Fish rapidly evolve resistance to PCBs
the shortnose sturgeon, Atlantic sturgeon, American eel, blueback herring, hickory shad, alewife, American shad, rainbow smelt, Atlantic tomcod, white perch, striped bass; and white catfish, Figure 43) are or have been commercially and/or recreationally important, primarily as food for humans.
Annotated checklist and distribution of New Jersey freshwater fishes, with comments on abundance
Haertel and Osterberg (1967) report that Pacific tomcod were a common species in their survey of estuarine fish in the 1960s (both juveniles and older fish), and Dawley et al.
Seasonal and interannual variation in juvenile salmonids and associated fish assemblage in open waters of the lower Columbia River estuary
Within the Hudson River estuary, juvenile and adult tomcod are seasonally distributed over 145 miles of Hudson River from the Battery at RM 1 to Albany at RM 145 (Klauda et al.
Evidence of spatially extensive resistance to PCBs in an anadromous fish of the Hudson River
During a flood, the water brings the tomcod farther into the rivers.
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The fish species white croaker, also known as kingfish and tomcod, common in Santa Monica Bay and the Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor area, have been found to have trace amounts of the chemicals DDT and PCB in their tissue.
SOMETHING'S FISHY; CONCERNS MOUNT OVER EATING LOCAL SURF FISH
2008; Dick, 2009]), Atlantic tomcod (Microgadus tomcod [e.
Effects of maternal age and size on embryonic energy reserves, developmental timing, and fecundity in quillback rockfish (Sebastes Maliger)
There were many species of fish that were unique to SAG including the American eel (Anguilla rostrata), oyster toadfish (Opsanus tau), rock gunnel (Pholis gunnellus), and Atlantic tomcod (Microgadus tomcod).
A comparative evaluation of the habitat value of shellfish aquaculture gear, submerged aquatic vegetation and a non-vegetated seabed
Atlantic tomcod from the Hudson have 100-fold higher levels of PCBs than fish caught in cleaner rivers," he says.
The Hudson: a river runs through an environmental controversy. (NIEHS News)
ABSTRACT: The effects of a large, municipal pier on the growth of young-of the-year (TOY) Atlantic tomcod (Microgadus tomcod) was investigated in two 10-d experiments conducted in the Hudson River estuary.
EFFECTS OF A MUNICIPAL PIER ON GROWTH OF YOUNG-OF-THE YEAR ATLANTIC TOMCOD (MICROGADUS TOMCOD): A STUDY IN THE HUDSON RIVER ESTUARY
40)), including eulachon, staghorn sculpin, Pacific herring, starry flounder, and other flatfish, smelts, lamprey, juvenile salmonids, Pacific tomcod, American shad, surfperch (Embiotocidae), northern anchovy, and Pacific whiting (Riemer and Brown (24); Browne et al.
Trends and potential interactions between pinnipeds and fisheries of new England and the U.S. west coast

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