Macrourus berglax shrimps, amphipods, polychaete worms, bivalve molluscs, isopods, brittle stars, other echinoderms and comb jellies. The roughhead grenadier is a slow growing fish. The females mature at an age of about 14 years and a length of while males reach maturity at a length of . The potential fecundity of the female is 17,000 to 56,000 eggs. The eggs are laid in batches and spawning takes place at any time of year, with a peak in late winter and early spring. The roughhead grenadier is landed as a by-catch when fishing for Greenland halibut ("Reinhardtius hippoglossoides") and Atlantic halibut ("Hippoglossus hippoglossus").
Flat Bastion Bastion Road extends to the bastion at the east side of its north face at the Charles V Wall and traverses the bastion at which point it becomes Gardiner's Road. The name of the bastion refers to the faces of the fortification and not to the slope of the ground on which it was built; Flat Bastion was constructed on sloping ground. A 1908 map of the Flat Bastion confirms that its south faces join at an obtuse angle which is relatively flat, and nearly parallel to the Charles V Wall. Flat Bastion includes Flat Bastion Magazine within its eastern