name: Alaska Pollock

flavor_db_name_variants: alaska pollock

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Alaska pollock

id: 497

name_scientific: Theragra chalcogramma

description: Alaska pollock or walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) is a species of the cod family Gadidae. Alaska pollock is a semipelagic schooling fish widely distributed in the North Pacific with largest concentrations found in the eastern Bering Sea. While related to the common Atlantic pollock species of the same family, the Alaska pollock is not a member of the same Pollachius genus. Rather, recent research suggests that it is more closely related to Atlantic cod, and that Alaska pollock should be moved back to genus Gadus in which it was originally described as Gadus chalcogrammus. Furthermore, Norwegian pollock (Theragra finnmarchica), a rare fish of Norwegian waters, is likely the same species as the Alaska pollock.

itis_id: 164722

wikipedia_id: Alaska pollock

picture_file_name: 508.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 62703

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:32:02.000Z

legacy_id: 535

food_group: Aquatic foods

food_subgroup: Fishes

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:45.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:26.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 1042646

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00497