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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other fish known as whiting, see <a href="Whiting_(fish)" title="Whiting (fish)">Whiting (fish)</a>.</div>

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<th colspan="2" style="color:inherit; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(235,235,210)"><i>Merlangius merlangus</i>

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<th colspan="2"><div style="text-align: center"><a href="Conservation_status" title="Conservation status">Conservation status</a></div>

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<td colspan="2"><div style="text-align: center"><br><a href="Least_Concern" class="mw-redirect" title="Least Concern">Least Concern</a> <small> (<a href="IUCN_Red_List" title="IUCN Red List">IUCN 3.1</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-iucn_status_19_November_2021_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iucn_status_19_November_2021-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></small></div>

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<th colspan="2" style="color:inherit; min-width:15em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(235,235,210)"><a href="Taxonomy_(biology)" title="Taxonomy (biology)">Scientific classification</a> <span class=" taxobox-edit-taxonomy skin-invert" style="font-size:smaller; float:right; padding-right:0.4em; margin-left:-3em;"><span typeof="mw:File"></span></span>

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<td><a href="Chordate" title="Chordate">Chordata</a>

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<td><a href="Actinopterygii" title="Actinopterygii">Actinopterygii</a>

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<td><a href="Gadiformes" title="Gadiformes">Gadiformes</a>

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<td><a href="Gadidae" title="Gadidae">Gadidae</a>

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<td><br><small><a href="Fran%C3%A7ois_Alexandre_Pierre_de_Garsault" title="François Alexandre Pierre de Garsault">Garsault</a>, 1764</small>

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<td><div style="display:inline" class="species"><i><b>M. merlangus</b></i></div>

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<th colspan="2" style="color:inherit; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(235,235,210)"><a href="Binomial_nomenclature" title="Binomial nomenclature">Binomial name</a>

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<td colspan="2" style="text-align: center"><b><span class="binomial"><i>Merlangius merlangus</i></span></b><br><div style="font-size: 85%;">(<a href="Carl_Linnaeus" title="Carl Linnaeus">Linnaeus</a>, <a href="10th_edition_of_Systema_Naturae" title="10th edition of Systema Naturae">1758</a>)</div>

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<th colspan="2" style="color:inherit; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(235,235,210)"><a href="Synonym_(taxonomy)" title="Synonym (taxonomy)">Synonyms</a>

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<ul><li><i>Gadus merlangus</i> <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small></li>

<li><i>Odontogadus merlangus</i> <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small></li>

<li><i>Merlangus vulgaris</i> <small><a href="John_Fleming_(naturalist)" title="John Fleming (naturalist)">Fleming</a>, 1828</small></li>

<li><i>Gadus euxinus</i> <small><a href="Alexander_von_Nordmann" title="Alexander von Nordmann">Nordmann</a>, 1840</small></li>

<li><i>Merlangus linnei</i> <small><a href="August_Wilhelm_Malm" title="August Wilhelm Malm">Malm</a>, 1877</small></li></ul>

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<p><i><b>Merlangius merlangus</b></i>, commonly known as <b>whiting</b> or <b>merling</b>, is an important food fish in the eastern North <a href="Atlantic_(ocean)" class="mw-redirect" title="Atlantic (ocean)">Atlantic Ocean</a> and the northern <a href="Mediterranean" class="mw-redirect" title="Mediterranean">Mediterranean</a>, western <a href="Baltic_Sea" title="Baltic Sea">Baltic</a>, and <a href="Black_Sea" title="Black Sea">Black Sea</a>. In <a href="English_language" title="English language">Anglophonic</a> countries outside the whiting's natural range, the name "whiting" has been applied to various other <a href="Whiting_(fish)" title="Whiting (fish)">species of fish</a>.

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<p><i>Merlangius merlangus</i> has three dorsal fins with a total of 30 to 40 soft rays and two anal fins with 30 to 35 soft rays. The body is long and the head small and a chin barbel, if present, is very small. This fish can reach a maximum length of about <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">

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</style>70 centimetres (<span class="frac">27<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span> inches). The colour may be yellowish-brown, greenish or dark blue, the flanks yellowish grey or white and the belly silvery. There is a distinctive black blotch near the base of each pectoral fin.<sup id="cite_ref-Fishbase_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fishbase-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Distribution_and_habitat">Distribution and habitat</h2></div>

<p>Whiting are native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Their range extends from the southeastern <a href="Barents_Sea" title="Barents Sea">Barents Sea</a> and Iceland to Scandinavia, the <a href="Baltic_Sea" title="Baltic Sea">Baltic Sea</a>, the <a href="North_Sea" title="North Sea">North Sea</a>, Portugal, the <a href="Black_Sea" title="Black Sea">Black Sea</a>, the <a href="Aegean_Sea" title="Aegean Sea">Aegean Sea</a>, the <a href="Adriatic_Sea" title="Adriatic Sea">Adriatic Sea</a> and parts of the <a href="Mediterranean_Sea" title="Mediterranean Sea">Mediterranean Sea</a>. They occur on sand, mud and gravel seabeds at depths down to about 100 metres (300 feet; 50 fathoms).<sup id="cite_ref-Fishbase_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fishbase-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>In 2014, their <a href="Conservation_status" title="Conservation status">conservation status</a> was classified at <a href="Vulnerable_species" title="Vulnerable species">vulnerable</a> in the Baltic Sea.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<p>Until the late 20th century, whiting was a cheap fish, regarded as food for the poor or for <a href="Pet" title="Pet">pets</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The general decline in fish stocks means it is now more highly valued. The other fish that have been given the name whiting are mostly also edible fish. Several species of the drum, or croaker, family (<a href="Sciaenidae" title="Sciaenidae">Sciaenidae</a>) are also called whiting, among them the <a href="Menticirrhus_saxatilis" title="Menticirrhus saxatilis">northern kingfish</a> (<i>Menticirrhus saxatilis</i>).

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<p>Whiting and related other <a href="Gadidae" title="Gadidae">Gadidae</a> species are plagued by parasites. These include the cod worm (<i><a href="Lernaeocera_branchialis" title="Lernaeocera branchialis">Lernaeocera branchialis</a></i>), a <a href="Copepod" title="Copepod">copepod</a> crustacean that clings to the <a href="Gill" title="Gill">gills</a> of the fish and metamorphoses into a plump, <a href="Sinusoidal" class="mw-redirect" title="Sinusoidal">sinusoidal</a>, wormlike body, with a coiled mass of egg strings at the rear.

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</style><cite id="CITEREFNedreaas,_K.Florin,_A.Cook,_R.Fernandes,_P.2014" class="citation journal cs1">Nedreaas, K.; Florin, A.; Cook, R.; Fernandes, P.; Lorance, P. (2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/198585/45097610">"<i>Merlangius merlangus</i>"</a>. <i><a href="IUCN_Red_List" title="IUCN Red List">IUCN Red List of Threatened Species</a></i>. <b>2014</b>: e.T198585A45097610. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2305%2FIUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T198585A45097610.en">10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T198585A45097610.en</a></span><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">19 November</span> 2021</span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-Fishbase-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Fishbase_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Fishbase_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Merlangius-merlangus.html">"<i>Merlangius merlangus</i> (Linnaeus, 1758): Whiting"</a>. FishBase<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">20 December</span> 2013</span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFHELCOM2013" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="HELCOM" title="HELCOM">HELCOM</a> (2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141007002944/http://helcom.fi/Lists/Publications/BSEP140.pdf">"HELCOM Red List of Baltic Sea species in danger of becoming extinct"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Baltic Sea Environmental Proceedings</i> (140): 72. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://helcom.fi/Lists/Publications/BSEP140.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on 7 October 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">30 July</span> 2014</span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://britishseafishing.co.uk/whiting/">"Whiting"</a>. www.BritishSeaFishing.co.uk. 29 June 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 December</span> 2014</span>.</cite></span>

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<ul><li><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=164758">"<i>Merlangius merlangus</i>"</a>. <a href="Integrated_Taxonomic_Information_System" title="Integrated Taxonomic Information System">Integrated Taxonomic Information System</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">19 March</span> 2006</span>.</cite></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?genusname=Merlangius&speciesname=merlangus">Fishbase.org entry for <i>Merlangius merlangus</i></a></li>

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</style><div id="Fish574" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Fish" title="Fish">Fish</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">About <a href="Fish" title="Fish">fish</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Diversity_of_fish" title="Diversity of fish">Diversity</a></li>

<li><a href="Ethnoichthyology" title="Ethnoichthyology">Ethnoichthyology</a></li>

<li><a href="Evolution_of_fish" title="Evolution of fish">Evolution</a></li>

<li><a href="Fish_diseases_and_parasites" title="Fish diseases and parasites">Diseases and parasites</a></li>

<li><a href="Fishing" title="Fishing">Fishing</a>

<ul><li><a href="Fishery" title="Fishery">Fisheries</a></li>

<li><a href="Environmental_impact_of_fishing" title="Environmental impact of fishing">Environmental impact of fishing</a></li>

<li><a href="FishBase" title="FishBase">FishBase</a></li>

<li><a href="Hypoxia_in_fish" title="Hypoxia in fish">Hypoxia in -</a></li>

<li><a href="Ichthyology" title="Ichthyology">Ichthyology</a></li></ul>

</div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="11" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Fish_anatomy" title="Fish anatomy">Anatomy</a><br> and<br><a href="Fish_physiology" title="Fish physiology">physiology</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Age_determination_in_fish" title="Age determination in fish">Age determination</a></li>

<li><a href="Anguilliformity" title="Anguilliformity">Anguilliformity</a></li>

<ul><li><a href="Dermal_bone" title="Dermal bone">dermal</a></li>

<li><a href="Intramembranous_ossification" title="Intramembranous ossification">intramembranous ossification</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Cleithrum" title="Cleithrum">Cleithrum</a></li>

<li><a href="Chromatophore" title="Chromatophore">Chromatophore</a></li>

<ul><li><a href="Dorsal_fin" title="Dorsal fin">dorsal fin</a></li></ul></li>

<ul><li><a href="Branchial_arch" title="Branchial arch">branchial arch</a></li>

<li><a href="Gill_raker" title="Gill raker">gill raker</a></li>

<li><a href="Pharyngeal_arch" title="Pharyngeal arch">pharyngeal arch</a></li>

<li><a href="Pharyngeal_slit" title="Pharyngeal slit">pharyngeal slit</a></li>

<li><a href="Pseudobranch" title="Pseudobranch">pseudobranch</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Glossohyal" title="Glossohyal">Glossohyal</a></li>

<ul><li><a href="Hyomandibula" title="Hyomandibula">hyomandibula</a></li>

<li><a href="Pharyngeal_jaw" title="Pharyngeal jaw">pharyngeal jaw</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Leydig's_organ" title="Leydig's organ">Leydig's organ</a></li>

<li><a href="Mauthner_cell" title="Mauthner cell">Mauthner cell</a></li>

<li><a href="Meristics" title="Meristics">Meristics</a></li>

<li><a href="Operculum_(fish)" title="Operculum (fish)">Operculum</a>

<ul><li><a href="Operculum_papillare" title="Operculum papillare">papillare</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Papilla_(fish_anatomy)" title="Papilla (fish anatomy)">Papilla</a></li>

<li><a href="Photophore" title="Photophore">Photophore</a></li>

<li><a href="Root_effect" title="Root effect">Root effect</a></li>

<li><a href="Shark_cartilage" title="Shark cartilage">Shark cartilage</a></li>

<li><a href="Fish_scale" title="Fish scale">Scales</a>

<ul><li><a href="Ganoine" title="Ganoine">ganoine</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Spiral_valve" title="Spiral valve">Spiral valve</a></li>

<li><a href="Suckermouth" title="Suckermouth">Suckermouth</a></li>

<li><a href="Swim_bladder" title="Swim bladder">Swim bladder</a>

<ul><li><a href="Physoclisti" title="Physoclisti">physoclisti</a></li>

<li><a href="Physostome" title="Physostome">physostome</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Teeth" class="mw-redirect" title="Teeth">Teeth</a>

<ul><li><a href="Pharyngeal_teeth" title="Pharyngeal teeth">pharyngeal</a></li>

<li><a href="Shark_tooth" title="Shark tooth">shark</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Teleost_leptins" title="Teleost leptins">Teleost leptins</a></li>

<li><a href="Digital_Fish_Library" title="Digital Fish Library">Digital Library</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Sensory_systems_in_fish" title="Sensory systems in fish">Sensory<br>systems</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Ampullae_of_Lorenzini" title="Ampullae of Lorenzini">Ampullae of Lorenzini</a></li>

<li><a href="Barbel_(anatomy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Barbel (anatomy)">Barbel</a></li>

<li><a href="Hydrodynamic_reception" title="Hydrodynamic reception">Hydrodynamic reception</a></li>

<li><a href="Electroreception_and_electrogenesis" title="Electroreception and electrogenesis">Electroreception and electrogenesis</a></li>

<li><a href="Jamming_avoidance_response" title="Jamming avoidance response">Jamming avoidance response</a></li>

<li><a href="Lateral_line" title="Lateral line">Lateral line</a></li>

<li><a href="Otolith" title="Otolith">Otolith</a></li>

<li><a href="Pain_in_fish" title="Pain in fish">Capacity for pain</a></li>

<li><a href="Schreckstoff" title="Schreckstoff">Schreckstoff</a></li>

<li><a href="Surface_wave_detection_by_animals" title="Surface wave detection by animals">Surface wave detection</a></li>

<li><a href="Vision_in_fishes" class="mw-redirect" title="Vision in fishes">Vision</a></li>

<li><a href="Weberian_apparatus" title="Weberian apparatus">Weberian apparatus</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Fish_reproduction" title="Fish reproduction">Reproduction</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Bubble_nest" title="Bubble nest">Bubble nest</a></li>

<li><a href="Clasper" title="Clasper">Clasper</a></li>

<li><a href="Fish_development" title="Fish development">Development</a></li>

<li><a href="Ichthyoplankton" title="Ichthyoplankton">Ichthyoplankton</a></li>

<li><a href="Juvenile_fish" title="Juvenile fish">Juvenile</a></li>

<li><a href="Life_history_theory" title="Life history theory">Life history theory</a></li>

<li><a href="Mouthbrooder" title="Mouthbrooder">Mouthbrooder</a></li>

<li><a href="Polyandry_in_fish" title="Polyandry in fish">Polyandry</a></li>

<li><a href="Pregnancy_in_fish" title="Pregnancy in fish">Pregnancy</a></li>

<li><a href="Sequential_hermaphroditism" title="Sequential hermaphroditism">Sequential hermaphroditism</a></li>

<li><a href="Spawn_(biology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Spawn (biology)">Spawning</a>

<ul><li><a href="Spawning_trigger" title="Spawning trigger">triggers</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Fish_locomotion" title="Fish locomotion">Locomotion</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Fin_and_flipper_locomotion" title="Fin and flipper locomotion">Fin and flipper locomotion</a></li>

<li><a href="Amphibious_fish" title="Amphibious fish">Amphibious</a></li>

<li><a href="Walking_fish" title="Walking fish">Walking</a></li>

<li><a href="Flying_fish" title="Flying fish">Flying</a></li>

<li><a href="Undulatory_locomotion" title="Undulatory locomotion">Undulatory locomotion</a></li>

<li><a href="Tradeoffs_for_locomotion_in_air_and_water" title="Tradeoffs for locomotion in air and water">Tradeoffs for locomotion in air and water</a></li>

<li><a href="RoboTuna" title="RoboTuna">RoboTuna</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other<br>behaviour</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Aquatic_predation" class="mw-redirect" title="Aquatic predation">Aquatic predation</a></li>

<li><a href="Aquatic_respiration" title="Aquatic respiration">Aquatic respiration</a></li>

<li><a href="Bottom_feeder" title="Bottom feeder">Bottom feeders</a></li>

<li><a href="Cleaner_fish" title="Cleaner fish">Cleaner fish</a></li>

<li><a href="Corallivore" title="Corallivore">Corallivory</a></li>

<li><a href="Diel_vertical_migration" title="Diel vertical migration">Diel vertical migration</a></li>

<li><a href="Electric_fish" title="Electric fish">Electric fish</a></li>

<li><a href="Filter_feeder" title="Filter feeder">Filter feeders</a></li>

<li><a href="Forage_fish" title="Forage fish">Forage fish</a></li>

<li><a href="Fish_migration" title="Fish migration">Migratory</a></li>

<li><a href="Paedophagy" title="Paedophagy">Paedophagy</a></li>

<li><a href="Predatory_fish" title="Predatory fish">Predatory</a></li>

<li><a href="Salmon_run" title="Salmon run">Salmon run</a></li>

<li><a href="Sardine_run" title="Sardine run">Sardine run</a></li>

<li><a href="Lepidophagy" title="Lepidophagy">Scale eaters</a></li>

<li><a href="Shoaling_and_schooling" title="Shoaling and schooling">Schooling fish</a></li>

<li><a href="Sleep_in_fish" title="Sleep in fish">Sleep</a></li>

<li><a href="Venomous_fish" title="Venomous fish">Venomous</a></li>

<li><a href="Fish_intelligence" title="Fish intelligence">Intelligence</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By <a href="Marine_habitat" title="Marine habitat">habitat</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Coastal_fish" title="Coastal fish">Coastal</a></li>

<li><a href="Coldwater_fish" title="Coldwater fish">Coldwater</a></li>

<li><a href="Coral_reef_fish" title="Coral reef fish">Coral reef</a></li>

<li><a href="Demersal_fish" title="Demersal fish">Demersal</a></li>

<li><a href="Euryhaline" title="Euryhaline">Euryhaline</a></li>

<li><a href="Freshwater_fish" title="Freshwater fish">Freshwater</a></li>

<li><a href="Groundfish" class="mw-redirect" title="Groundfish">Groundfish</a></li>

<li><a href="Pelagic_fish" title="Pelagic fish">Pelagic</a></li>

<li><a href="Tropical_fish" title="Tropical fish">Tropical</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other types</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Coarse_fishing" title="Coarse fishing">Coarse</a></li>

<li><a href="Diversity_of_fish" title="Diversity of fish">Diversity</a></li>

<li><a href="Genetically_modified_fish" title="Genetically modified fish">Genetically modified</a></li>

<li><a href="Hallucinogenic_fish" title="Hallucinogenic fish">Hallucinogenic</a></li>

<li><a href="Poisonous_fish" title="Poisonous fish">Poisonous</a></li>

<li><a href="Rough_fish" title="Rough fish">Rough</a></li>

<li><a href="Whitefish_(fisheries_term)" title="Whitefish (fisheries term)">Whitefish</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="List_of_commercially_important_fish_species" title="List of commercially important fish species">Commerce</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Fish_farming" title="Fish farming">Farming</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Aquaculture_of_catfish" title="Aquaculture of catfish">Catfish</a></li>

<li><a href="Octopus_aquaculture" title="Octopus aquaculture">Octopus</a></li>

<li><a href="Aquaculture_of_salmonids" title="Aquaculture of salmonids">Salmonids</a></li>

<li><a href="Aquaculture_of_tilapia" title="Aquaculture of tilapia">Tilapia</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Wild_fisheries" title="Wild fisheries">Wild fisheries</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Predatory_fish" title="Predatory fish">Predatory</a>

<ul><li><a href="Billfish" title="Billfish">billfish</a></li>

<li><a href="Mackerel" title="Mackerel">mackerel</a></li>

<li><a href="Salmon" title="Salmon">salmon</a></li>

<li><a href="Forage_fish" title="Forage fish">Forage</a>

<ul><li><a href="Anchovy" title="Anchovy">anchovy</a></li>

<li><a href="Herring" title="Herring">herring</a></li>

<li><a href="Sardine" title="Sardine">sardine</a></li>

<li><a href="Sprat" title="Sprat">sprats</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Demersal_fish" title="Demersal fish">Demersal</a>

<li><a href="Flatfish" title="Flatfish">flatfish</a></li>

<li><a href="Pollock" title="Pollock">pollock</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Major groups</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Agnatha" title="Agnatha">Jawless</a>

<ul><li><a href="Hagfish" title="Hagfish">Hagfish</a></li>

<li><a href="Hyperoartia" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyperoartia">Lampreys</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Chondrichthyes" title="Chondrichthyes">Cartilaginous</a>

<ul><li><a href="Holocephali" title="Holocephali">Chimaeras</a></li>

<li><a href="Shark" title="Shark">Sharks</a></li>

<ul><li><a href="Actinopterygii" title="Actinopterygii">Ray-finned</a></li>

<li><a href="Sarcopterygii" title="Sarcopterygii">Fleshy-finned</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lists</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Lists_of_aquarium_life" title="Lists of aquarium life">Aquarium life</a></li>

<li><a href="Blind_fish" title="Blind fish">Blind</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_fish_common_names" title="List of fish common names">Fish common names</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_fish_families" title="List of fish families">Fish families</a></li>

<li><a href="Glossary_of_ichthyology" title="Glossary of ichthyology">Glossary of ichthyology</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_largest_fish" title="List of largest fish">Largest</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_smallest_fish" title="List of smallest fish">Smallest</a></li>

<li>Threatened

<li><a href="List_of_threatened_sharks" title="List of threatened sharks">sharks</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Lists_of_prehistoric_fish" title="Lists of prehistoric fish">Prehistoric</a></li>

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<li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WikiProject"></span></span> <b>WikiProject</b></li></ul>

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<ul><li><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><a href="Wikidata" title="Wikidata">Wikidata</a>: <span class="uid"><span class="external"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q273083" class="extiw external" title="wikidata:Q273083">Q273083</a></span></span></span></li>

<li><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><a href="Wikispecies" title="Wikispecies">Wikispecies</a>: <span class="uid"><span class="external"><a href="https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Merlangius_merlangus" class="extiw external" title="wikispecies:Merlangius merlangus">Merlangius merlangus</a></span></span></span></li>

<li><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><a href="Animal_Diversity_Web" title="Animal Diversity Web">ADW</a>: <span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Merlangius/">Merlangius</a></span></span></li>

<li><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><a href="EPPO_Code" title="EPPO Code">EPPO</a>: <span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://gd.eppo.int/taxon/MRLGME">MRLGME</a></span></span></li>

<li><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><a href="FishBase" title="FishBase">FishBase</a>: <span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fishbase.org/summary/29">29</a></span></span></li>

<li><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><a href="INaturalist" title="INaturalist">iNaturalist</a>: <span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://inaturalist.org/taxa/430553">430553</a></span></span></li>

<li><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><a href="Interim_Register_of_Marine_and_Nonmarine_Genera" title="Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera">IRMNG</a>: <span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=10154427">10154427</a></span></span></li>

<li><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><a href="National_Biodiversity_Network" title="National Biodiversity Network">NBN</a>: <span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://species.nbnatlas.org/species/NBNSYS0000176425">NBNSYS0000176425</a></span></span></li>

<li><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><a href="Observation.org" title="Observation.org">Observation.org</a>: <span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://observation.org/species/2058/">2058</a></span></span></li>

<li><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><a href="World_Register_of_Marine_Species" title="World Register of Marine Species">WoRMS</a>: <span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126438">126438</a></span></span></li></ul>

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