Atlantic cod text from the reference. Atlantic cod The Atlantic cod ("Gadus morhua") is a benthopelagic fish of the family Gadidae, widely consumed by humans. It is also commercially known as cod or codling. Dry cod may be prepared as unsalted stockfish, as cured salt cod or clipfish. In the western Atlantic Ocean, cod has a distribution north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and around both coasts of Greenland and the Labrador Sea; in the eastern Atlantic, it is found from the Bay of Biscay north to the Arctic Ocean, including the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, Sea of the Hebrides, areas
Cod Cod Cod is the common name for the demersal fish genus "Gadus", belonging to the family Gadidae. Cod is also used as part of the common name for a number of other fish species, and some species suggested to belong to genus "Gadus" are not called cod (the Alaska pollock). The two most common species of cod are the Atlantic cod ("Gadus morhua"), which lives in the colder waters and deeper sea regions throughout the North Atlantic, and the Pacific cod ("Gadus macrocephalus"), found in both eastern and western regions of the northern Pacific. "Gadus morhua" was named by Linnaeus