It has a large head relative to body and unlike the northern wolffish its flesh is firm and muscular. |
This identification card can help you identify wolffish when caught as bycatch. |
Threats to wolffish include bycatch mortality in commercial fisheries and disturbance of their marine habitat. |
As skyronnaise, with fresh wolffish in spelt barley at the harbour-front Icelandic Fish and Chips restaurant. |
Proper handling and quick release of wolffish back into the water improves their chances of survival. |
Apparently, she was so persuasive — and bottom trawling so wrecked its habitat — that the wolffish is now considered a threatened species. |