Our previous post spoke of two members of the hake tribe – WHITE HAKE aka BOSTON HAKE sometimes called BLACK HAKE and sometimes MUD HAKE when they are not simply called HAKE or their other name, LING. The other mentioned, SQUIRREL HAKE is more commonly known as RED HAKE, except when it is called LING. Got it?
Today we have another – BLUE HAKE. It’s rare in the Gulf of Maine but common beyond the slope and has been taken at 1,000 fathoms. BLUE HAKE look much like WHITE and RED HAKE and also like BLACK HAKE which are really WHITE HAKE, as explained in the previous paragraph.
Fishes of the Gulf of Maine by Bigelow and Schroeder, 1953. Courtesy of MBL/WHOI – BLUE HAKE
http://www.gma.org/fogm/Antimora_rostrata.htm
Good Morning Gloucester 