Biology:Sablefish

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Sablefish
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Anoplopoma fimbria
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Anoplopomatidae
Genus: Anoplopoma
Ayres, 1859
Species:
A. fimbria
Binomial name
Anoplopoma fimbria
(Pallas, 1814)
Synonyms[1]
  • Peters, 1872 Pallas, 1814
  • Anoplopoma merlangus Gadus fimbria
  • Ayres, 1859 Scombrocottus salmoneus

The sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) is one of two members of the fish family Anoplopomatidae and the only species in the genus Anoplopoma.[1] In English, common names for it include sable (US), butterfish (US), black cod (US, UK, Canada), blue cod (UK), bluefish (UK), candlefish (UK), coal cod (UK), snowfish (ปลาหิมะ; Thailand), coalfish (Canada), beshow, and skil (Canada), although many of these names also refer to other, unrelated, species.[2] The US Food and Drug Administration accepts only "sablefish" as the acceptable market name in the United States; "black cod" is considered a vernacular (regional) name and should not be used as a statement of identity for this species.[3] The sablefish is found in muddy sea beds in the North Pacific Ocean at depths of 300 to 2,700 m (980 to 8,860 ft) and is commercially important to Japan .[4][5]

Description

The sablefish is a species of deep-sea fish common to the North Pacific Ocean.[6] Adult sablefish are opportunistic piscivores, preying on Alaskan pollock, eulachon, capelin, herring, sandlance, and Pacific cod, as well as squid, euphausiids, and jellyfish.[7] Sablefish are long-lived, with a maximum recorded age of 94 years[8] although the majority of the commercial catch in many areas is less than 20 years old.[9][10]

Sablefish growth varies regionally, with larger maximum sizes in Alaska,[10] where total lengths up to 114 cm (45 in) weights up to 25 kg (55 lb) have been recorded.[11] However, average lengths are typically below 70 cm (28 in) and 4 kg (8.8 lb).[11][10]

Tagging studies have indicated that sablefish have been observed to move as much as 2,000 km (1,200 mi) before recapture with one study estimating an average distance between release and recapture of 602 km (374 mi), with an average annual movement of 191 km (119 mi).[12][13]

  • Sablefish resting on soft sediment 991 feet deep

  • Small sablefish caught in a bottom trawl survey off the coast of California

  • Image shows three people working around a tote full of sablefish held by a crane

    A tote of sablefish being processed in Juneau, Alaska.

Fisheries

Sablefish are typically caught in bottom trawl, longline and pot fisheries. In the Northeast Pacific, sablefish fisheries are managed separately in three areas: Alaska, the Canadian province of British Columbia, and the west coast of the contiguous United States (Washington (state) , Oregon, and California ). In all these areas catches peaked in the 1970s and 80s and have been lower since that time due to a combination of reduced populations and management restrictions.[9][14][10] The sablefish longline fishery in Alaska has been certified as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council[15] as is the US West Coast limited entry groundfish trawl fishery which includes sablefish.[16]

Longline fisheries in Alaska frequently experience predation of sablefish by killer whales and sperm whales which remove the fish from the hooks during the process of retrieving the gear.[17][18][19]

Sablefish aquaculture is an area of active research.[20]

Culinary use

Sablefish (gindara) kasuzuke from a market in San Francisco, California
A restaurant prepared meal of Alaskan sablefish.

The white flesh of the sablefish is soft-textured and mildly flavored. It is considered a delicacy in many countries.[which?] When cooked, its flaky texture is similar to Patagonian toothfish (Chilean sea bass). The meat has a high fat content and can be prepared in many ways, including grilling, smoking, or frying, or served as sushi.[21] Sablefish flesh is high in long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, EPA, and DHA. It contains about as much as wild salmon.[22]

Smoked sablefish, often called simply "sable", has long been a staple of New York appetizing stores, one of many smoked fish products usually eaten with bagels for breakfast in American Jewish cuisine.[23][24]

In Japanese cuisine, the black cod (gindara) is often cooked saikyo yaki style, marinated for several days in sweet white miso or sake lees (kasuzuke) then broiled.[25] The Japanese-Peruvian-American chef Nobu Matsuhisa introduced his version of gindara saikyo yaki at his restaurant in Los Angeles, and brought it to his New York restaurant Nobu in 1994, where it is considered his signature dish, under the name "Black Cod with Miso".[26][27][23] Kasuzuke sablefish is popular in Seattle thanks to a large Japanese community in that area.[28]

Mercury content

Studies of accumulated mercury levels find average mercury concentrations from 0.1 ppm,[29]:15 0.2 ppm,[30] and up to 0.4 ppm.[31] The US Food and Drug Administration puts sablefish in the "Good Choices" category in their guide for pregnant women and parents, and recommends one 4-ounce serving (uncooked) a week for an adult, less for children.[32][33] On the other hand, the Alaska epidemiology section considers Alaska sablefish to be "low in mercury"[29]:7 and advises no restrictions on sablefish consumption by all populations.[29]:50

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2022). "Anoplopoma fimbrata" in FishBase. August 2022 version.
  2. ↑ "Common Names List - Anoplopoma fimbria". http://www.fishbase.org/comnames/CommonNamesList.php?ID=512&GenusName=Anoplopoma&SpeciesName=fimbria&StockCode=528. Retrieved 12 October 2017. 
  3. ↑ "Seafood List Search Returns". Archived from the original on 17 July 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100717072441/http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/SEARCH_SEAFOOD/index.cfm?other=complete. Retrieved 2010-07-17. 
  4. ↑ Sonu, Sunee C. (October 2014). "Supply and Market for Sablefish in Japan". NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS NOAA-TM-NMFS-WCR-102. https://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/Assets/commercial/market-news/sablefishSupplyMarket2014.pdf. 
  5. ↑ Burros, Marian (2001-05-16). "The Fish That Swam Uptown" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/16/dining/the-fish-that-swam-uptown.html. 
  6. ↑ "Anoplopoma fimbria". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=167123. Retrieved 24 January 2006. 
  7. ↑ Yang, M-S and M. W. Nelson 2000. Food habits of the commercially important groundfishes in the Gulf of Alaska in 1990, 1993, and 1996. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-AFSC-112. 174 p.
  8. ↑ Kimura, Daniel K., A. M. Shaw and F. R. Shaw 1998. Stock Structure and movement of tagged sablefish, Anoplopoma fimbria, in offshore northeast Pacific waters and the effects of El Nino-Southern Oscillation on migration and growth. Fish. Bull. 96:462-481.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Assessment of the Sablefish stock in Alaska in: Stock assessment and fishery evaluation report for the groundfish resources of the GOA and BS/AI, North Pacific Fishery Management Council, 605 W 4th Ave., Suite 306 Anchorage, AK 99501, USA, 2017, pp. 307–412, https://www.afsc.noaa.gov/REFM/Docs/2017/BSAIsablefish.pdf 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Status of the sablefish stock in U.S. waters in 2019, Pacific Fisheries Management Council, 7700 Ambassador Place NE, Suite 200, Portland, OR, U.S.A., 2019, https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2019/10/status-of-the-sablefish-stock-in-u-s-waters-in-2019-october-22-2019.pdf/ 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Sablefish Species Profile, Alaska Department of Fish and Game" (in en). https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=sablefish.main. 
  12. ↑ Beamish, R. J.; McFarlane, C. A. (1988). "Resident and Dispersal Behavior of Adult Sablefish (Anaplopoma fimbria) in the Slope Waters off Canada's West Coast". Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 45 (1): 152–164. doi:10.1139/f88-017. ISSN 0706-652X. 
  13. ↑ Hanselman, Dana H.; Heifetz, Jonathan; Echave, Katy B.; Dressel, Sherri C. (2015). "Move it or lose it: movement and mortality of sablefish tagged in Alaska". Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 72 (2): 238–251. doi:10.1139/cjfas-2014-0251. ISSN 0706-652X. 
  14. ↑ DFO (2016), A revised operating model for sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) in British Columbia, Canada, DFO Can. Sci. Advis. Sec. Sci. Advis. Rep. 2016/015, http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2016/mpo-dfo/Fs70-6-2016-015-eng.pdf 
  15. ↑ "US North Pacific sablefish - MSC Fisheries". https://fisheries.msc.org/en/fisheries/us-north-pacific-sablefish/. 
  16. ↑ "US West Coast limited entry groundfish trawl - MSC Fisheries". https://fisheries.msc.org/en/fisheries/us-west-coast-limited-entry-groundfish-trawl/. 
  17. ↑ Peterson, Megan J.; Carothers, Courtney (2013-11-01). "Whale interactions with Alaskan sablefish and Pacific halibut fisheries: Surveying fishermen perception, changing fishing practices and mitigation" (in en). Marine Policy 42: 315–324. doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2013.04.001. ISSN 0308-597X. 
  18. ↑ Sigler, Michael F.; Lunsford, Chris R.; Straley, Janice M.; Liddle, Joseph B. (2008). "Sperm whale depredation of sablefish longline gear in the northeast Pacific Ocean" (in en). Marine Mammal Science 24 (1): 16–27. doi:10.1111/j.1748-7692.2007.00149.x. ISSN 0824-0469. 
  19. ↑ Sperm whales steal from a fishing boat - Alaska: Earth's Frozen Kingdom - Episode 1 - BBC Two, 2015-02-03, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYP0nadGqCc, retrieved 2018-08-24 
  20. ↑ "Jamestown S'Klallam, NOAA Partner on Black Cod Broodstock Program" (in en-US). 2016-03-27. https://nwtreatytribes.org/jamestown-sklallam-noaa-partner-black-cod-broodstock-program/. 
  21. ↑ "18 Best Sablefish Recipes To Try". https://www.gloriousrecipes.com/sablefish-recipes/. 
  22. ↑ "Sablefish Anoplopoma fimbria". https://www.fishwatch.gov/profiles/sablefish. 
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Marian Burros, "The Fish that Swam Uptown", New York Times , May 16, 2001, page F1
  24. ↑ Leah Koenig, "A Smoked Fish Primer", The Forward July 1, 2016
  25. ↑ "Miso-marinated broiled fish", recipe in Elizabeth Andoh, Washoku: Recipes from the Japanese Home Kitchen, 2012, ISBN 030781355X, p. 229
  26. ↑ Nobu Matsuhisa, Nobu: A Memoir, 2019, ISBN 1501122800, p. 47
  27. ↑ Ruth Reichl, "Restaurants", New York Times , October 7, 1994, p. C24
  28. ↑ Loomis, Susan Herrmann (1988-06-26). "Seattle's Sake-Marinated Fish" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/26/travel/seattle-s-sake-marinated-fish.html. 
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 "Fish Consumption Advice for Alaskans: A Risk Management Strategy To Optimize the Public’s Health". Section of Epidemiology, Division of Public Health, Department of Health and Social Services, State of Alaska. 21 July 2014. https://health.alaska.gov/dph/Epi/eph/Documents/fish/FishConsumptionAdvice2014.pdf. 
  30. ↑ "Human Health Risk Assessment of Mercury in Fish and Health Benefits of Fish Consumption". 9 March 2007. https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/food-nutrition/reports-publications/human-health-risk-assessment-mercury-fish-health-benefits-fish-consumption.html. 
  31. ↑ "Mercury Levels in Commercial Fish and Shellfish (1990–2012)". FDA. https://www.fda.gov/food/foodborneillnesscontaminants/metals/ucm115644.htm. 
  32. ↑ U.S. Food & Drug Administration, "Eating Fish: What Pregnant Women and Parents Should Know" [1]
  33. ↑ U.S. Food & Drug Administration, "Questions & Answers from the FDA/EPA Advice on What Pregnant Women and Parents Should Know about Eating Fish" [2]

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1575272 entry



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