The cod (or cod ) is the common noun of the Poisson S of several species of the order of the Gadiformes. These fish live in cool water. Previously popular and scorned, it is present today on the chart of many restaurants. Fishing in excess is at the origin of its rarefaction.

Species of Gadus

Much S had been put peel-mixes in this, but the scientists from now on distributed them in a more rational way in other kinds of the family of the Gadidae.

Thus, one recognizes today only three species in the kind Gadus:

• Cod of the Atlantic - Gadus morhua
• Cod of the Pacific - Gadus macrocephalus
• Cod of Greenland - Gadus ogac

All these species are known under a profusion of common nouns, in particular regional.

Other species of Gadiformes

Here some of the cod species in other kinds that Gadus :

• Cod of the Arctic - Arctogadus glacialis

• Cod of the east of Siberia - Arctogadus borisovi
• Cod Safrant - polar Eleginus gracilis
• Cod - Boreogadus saida
• Cod of rock - poor Lotella rhacina
• Cod - pelagic Trisopterus minutus
• Cod - Melanonus gracilis
• Cod with small head - Lepidion microcephalus
• Cod tadpole - Guttigadus globosus
• Cod Eucla - Euclichthys polynemus

Name “cod” in the trade

Being given the popularity of this Poisson and the decline of its populations, the industry of the fishing considered it useful to give this name to other species which are in the southern hemisphere and which can cook same manner.

As regards fishing, one will note that the name “Cabillaud” can be held with cods of ripe age, whereas the term “cod” is employed preferably for the youthful individuals.

In term of gastronomy “cod” gets busy to indicate the Poisson fresh or frozen in opposition to “cod” which applies to the Poisson dried and salted (on this subject, to consult the article “Conservation of the food”). One henceforth finds name “cod fraiche”, because the term “cod” returns to a too common or industrial fish.

Various gastronomy and uses

An example of receipt: Cod in Parmesan crust, on wikibooks (Fr).

The Cod-liver oil extracted the Foie is considered to contribute with the growth and the intellectual development of the children, even if the latter do not appreciate it for its taste. It is particularly rich in essential fatty-acids Omega-3. It is also traditionally recommended in the event of Ostéoporose or of Fracture.

Other meanings

In a familiar register of language, the term “cod” also indicates a prostitute. It is sometimes also simply used to indicate a Femme, vulgarly and with scorn.

See too

• List of the livestock (aquatic animal)
• List of fish of sea for kitchen
• War of the cod

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