Haddock eating. Smoked haddock is naturally an off-white colour and it is frequently dyed yellow, as are other smoked fish. Smoked haddock is the essential ingredient in the Anglo-Indian dish "kedgeree", and also in the Scottish dish "Cullen Skink" (a 'chowder' like soup). Haddock The haddock ("Melanogrammus aeglefinus") is a saltwater fish from the family Gadidae, the true cods, it is the only species in the monotypic genus "Melanogrammus". It is found in the North Atlantic Ocean and associated seas where it is an important species for fisheries, especially in northern Europe. It is also an important food fish and it
Haddock are in the North Sea, off the Faroe Islands, off Iceland and the coast of Norway but these are discrete populations with little interchange between them. Off North America, the haddock is found from western Greenland south to Cape Hatteras, but the main commercially fished stock occurs from Cape Cod and the Grand Banks. It also occurs around Novaya Zemlya and the Barents Sea in the Arctic. The haddock is a demersal species which occurs at depths from to , although it is most frequently recorded at to . It is found over substrates made up of rock, sand, gravel