COD ICEFISH

Name: COD ICEFISH, Antarctic Perch
Latin: Patagonotothen ramsayi
English: Cod icefish

Order: Perciforme (Perch)
Family: Notothenidae

Species:

Trading forms:
frozen (-18º C), beheaded, B/E (beheaded/eviscerated), tail-off, inter-foiled, packed in 15-20 kilo boxes,

Presentation: beheaded 80 –200 g/piece, 100-200 g/piece, 100-300 g/piece

Origin: Argentina

Size: 80 –200 g/piece; 100-200 g/piece, 100-300 g/piece

Preparation: fried, oven baked, coated in a breading mixture, boiled

Nutritional value:

Recipes: see www.DonMariano.ro

Cod icefish is a predatory fish.
Maximum length 40 cm.

Cod icefish lives in the very cold waters, at depths of 50-500 meters. It has a blood protein that prevents it from freezing so it can live in icy waters.
It has white flesh.
It feeds on small crustaceans, algae, other fish.

It is found in South America, Patagonia, the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, near Antarctica.
In Romania it is mistaken for a hake, but in fact it’s the Antarctic perch.