Pacific Hake
Merluccius productus
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Fish
The North Pacific hake, Pacific hake, Pacific whiting, or jack salmon is a ray-finned fish in the genus Merluccius, found in the northeast Pacific Ocean from northern Vancouver Island to the northern part of the Gulf of California. It is a silver-gray fish with black speckling, growing to a length of 90 cm (3 ft). It is a migratory offshore fish and undergoes a daily vertical migration from the surface to the seabed at depths down to about 1,000 m (3,300 ft).
Classification
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Gadiformes
- Family
- Merlucciidae
- Genus
- Merluccius