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RFE Page 2 - Hazard, Market, Geographic and Nomenclature Information for Walleye Pollock (Pollock (Alaska Pollock); Theragra chalcogramma)

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Nomenclature Table

RFE LinkFDA - SL Market Name
FDA - SL Common Name
FDA - SL Scientific Name
RFE 2 Letter Code
RFE 8 Letter Code
FDA - SL Vernacular NamesAFS Common Name
AFS Scientific Name
AFS Other Names
AFS Synonyms
FAO Scientific Name
FAO Species Code
FAO Common Name English
FAO Common Name French
FAO Common Name Spanish
FAO Synonyms






Walleye PollockFDA-SL Market Name: Pollock (Alaska Pollock)
FDA-SL Common Name: Walleye Pollock
FDA-SL Sci. Name: Theragra chalcogramma
FDA RFE WWW 2 Letter code: wy
FDA RFE 8 Letter code: therchal
Vernac. 1) Whiting
Vernac. 2) Pacific Tomcod
Vernac. 3) Pacific Pollock
Vernac. 4) Alaska Pollock





AFS Common Name: Walleye Pollock
AFS Sci. Name: Theragra chalcogramma (Pallas, 1814)
AFS Other Names:   N.A.

AFS Synonyms:   N.A.
FAO Sci. Name: Theragra chalcogramma (Pallas, 1811)
FAO Species Code: GADI Ther 1
FAO Common English: Alaska pollock
FAO Common French: Lieu de l'Alaska
FAO Common Spanish: Colin de Alaska
FAO Sci. Name with Ref.: Gadus chalcogrammus Pallas, 1811;
Xoogr.Rosso-Asiat., 3:198.

FAO Synonyms: Gadus periscopus Cope, 1873;
Pollachius chalcogrammus, Jordan & Gilbert, 1881;
Gadus minor Döderlein, 1887;
Pollachius chalcogrammus fucensis Jordan & Gilbert, 1894;
Theragra fucensis, Jordan & Evermann, 1898;
Theragra chalcogramma chalcogramma natio fucensis, Svetovidov, 1948.

Geographic Distribution Table

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Fish ImageWalleye Pollock
Theragra chalcogramma
Pollock (Alaska Pollock)
PWidely distributed in the temperate to boreal North Pacific, from Central California into the eastern Bering Sea, along the Aleutian arc, around Kamchatka, in the Okhotsk Sea and into the southern Sea of Japan.

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