walleye pollock

American  

Or walleyed pollock

noun

1. a cod, Theragra chalcogramma, ranging the northern Pacific, that is related to and resembles the pollock.

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Example Sentences

Nearly 30,000 Chinook salmon were wasted as bycatch in the Canadian trawl fishery, which was targeting hake and walleye pollock, a new report from Canadian fisheries officials found.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024

Consider the plight of the walleye pollock — also known as Alaska pollock — one of the region’s most important fisheries.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2021

In December, an analysis of northern fur seal diets published here in Frontiers in Marine Science found that previous studies may have "vastly underestimated" the amount of commercially-valuable walleye pollock consumed by the species.

From Reuters • Jul. 12, 2021

In turn, warmer water increased the metabolism of large fish such as Pacific cod, walleye pollock and arrowtooth flounder, requiring them to eat more forage fish.

From Washington Times • Jan. 15, 2020

Water temperatures in the Bering Sea, where walleye pollock support one of the world's biggest fisheries, hit 4°C above normal in some regions.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 31, 2019