additional codfish and cod belongs to the economically most important representatives of the codfish-fish the charcoal-burner.
Shape If the charcoal-burner also looks like the codfish, however, there are clear differences: The lower jaw projects something, (with the codfish of the upper jaws) the beard-thread is minutely small, the side-line proceeds almost exactly (turned with the codfish over the flipper upward). The mouth-cave shows a dark, almost black coloring. From it dark-green until slate-gray colored upper side, that changes to a silvery gray-white to the stomach to, clearly lifts up the white side-line for itself. The charcoal-burner with maximum remains 1,20 m in the size and a weight for 12 kg something behind the codfish back.
Spread The charcoal-burner is an inhabitant of the North-Atlantic, that particularly in the northern North sea, before Norway, at the Scottish coast, near the Färöern and Iceland is caught. Also at the North American coast, it is frequent. As southern border, the Biskaya is regarded; it is missing in the Baltic sea.
Way of life As extremely dangerous robber, the charcoal-burner lives from fishings of the free water and cancers. Especially gladly, it accompanies herring-swarms, into which it breaks with fast turns. In contrast to the codfish, its wide hikes take place more ungerichtet, not on solid routes. The fishery works out more difficult than with the codfish through it on it.
Economic meaning During the meat cooked little taste has, it is very well suitable for the roast. However, the most important meaning of the charcoal-burner is in the processing to "sea-salmon" today: After salts, smoking and coloring, the meat is cut into thin disks and is marinated in oil.
Pole-lacquer The pole-lacquer or stone-charcoal-burners (Pollachius pollachius) are a quite rare codfish-fish. it is a near relative of the charcoal-burner; it differs in the brown back-coloring from it, a clear bulge of the side-line in the flipper and the absence of the Bartfadens, that the charcoal-burner possesses.
The meat surpasses this of the charcoal-burner ("light sea-salmon") qualitatively, however, the low catch-quantities are without meaning for the fish-industry.
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