Anarhichas minor, Spotted wolffish : fisheries, gamefish

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Anarhichas minor Olafsen, 1772

Spotted wolffish
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Common names from other countries

Loup tacheté, Perro pintado, 斑狼鳚, ... more

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> Perciformes/Zoarcoidei (Eelpouts and pricklebacks) > Anarhichadidae (Wolffishes)
Etymology: Anarhichas: Greek, anarhichaomai = to climb up.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / distribuzione batimetrica / distribution range Ecologia

marino demersale; oceanodromo (Ref. 51243); distribuzione batimetrica 25 - 600 m (Ref. 35388), usually 100 - 400 m. Temperate; 81°N - 42°N, 71°W - 59°E

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Northwest Atlantic: western Greenland and Nova Scotia in Canada to Massachusetts in USA and perhaps to New Jersey, USA (Ref. 7251). Northeast Atlantic: Spitsbergen southward to Scandinavian coasts (to about Bergen, also Iceland and south-eastern coasts of Greenland.

Length at first maturity / Size / Peso / Age

Maturità: Lm 55.0, range 50 - 60 cm
Max length : 180 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 7251); common length : 120 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 4694); peso massimo pubblicato: 27.9 kg (Ref. 40637)

Short description Chiavi di identificazione | Morfologia | Morfometria

Coloration greyish brown with many distinct spots on body and dorsal fin (Ref. 35388).
Body shape (shape guide): elongated.

Biologia     Glossario (es. epibenthic)

Inhabits offshore waters over soft bottoms, often with boulders, from 25-590 m, but most common from 100-400 m (Ref. 4694). Benthic (Ref. 58426). Feeds mainly on echinoderms, but also crustaceans, mollusks, fishes (Ref. 4694) and worms (Ref. 58426). In Barents sea, it reached at least 80 cm, age 9 years. Marketed fresh or as frozen fillets. Leather can be made of the skin (Ref. 35388).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve

Spawning happens between the months of September and January at 250 m depth. Females lay great egg bunches in nests built on the ground. The size of the eggs increases with the size of the female. Egg size 5-6 mm, larval length at hatching 21-24 mm.

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Barsukov, V.V., 1986. Anarhichadidae. p. 1113-1116. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. volume 3. UNESCO, Paris. (Ref. 4694)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)

Not Evaluated 

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Pesca: scarso interesse commerciale; Pesce da pesca sportiva: si
FAO - Aquaculture systems: production; pesca: landings, species profile; Publication: search | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Fonte Biblio. 123201): 0.6 - 7.6, mean 3.5 °C (based on 717 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Fonte Biblio. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5938   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00339 (0.00187 - 0.00615), b=3.19 (3.02 - 3.36), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Fonte Biblio. 69278):  3.8   ±0.62 se; based on food items.
Resilienza (Fonte Biblio. 120179):  Basso, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione 4.5 - 14 anni (K=0.06-0.13; tm=8; Fec=4,200-35,200).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Very high vulnerability (80 of 100). 🛈
Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649):  Moderate vulnerability (43 of 100). 🛈
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Low.
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 8.11 [3.54, 32.55] mg/100g; Iron = 0.203 [0.091, 0.584] mg/100g; Protein = 17.1 [15.0, 19.6] %; Omega3 = 0.368 [0.214, 0.619] g/100g; Selenium = 39.4 [11.9, 113.9] μg/100g; VitaminA = 8.93 [2.81, 30.45] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.569 [0.222, 1.133] mg/100g (wet weight);