It's also less expensive than Arctic cod.
And yet, the arctic cod survives by producing proteins that lower the freezing temperature of its body fluids, much like antifreeze does for a car's engine coolant.
Consider the Arctic cod, a fish that lives and thrives within six degrees of the North Pole, in waters that regularly fall below 0 degrees.
Though they consume a wide variety of prey, their diet is centred on small fishes such as capelin (Mallotus villosus), Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida), or polar cod (Arctogadus glacialis).
With true Atlantic cod stocks in decline, salt cod these days is often made from more sustainable pollock, haddock and Arctic cod, much of it from Norway and Alaska.
Stocks of north-east Arctic cod are now the highest of any cod species and the highest they have been since 1945 even though the permitted catch is also at record levels.
The Grand Banks have become home to the Arctic cod, which competes with its Atlantic cousin for food.Although most fish will not die out as a result of overfishing, a few species of marine animals are threatened with extinction.
The arctic char, an anadromous (river-ascending) migrant, is abundant and circumpolar, and the two small gadids, the polar cod and the arctic cod, are abundant throughout the region, their numbers being as yet only tentatively estimated.
The specter of hungry southern nations fishing the newly navigable doughnut hole prompted a recent report by the Pew Environment Group to warn that without a new set of regulations for the region, Arctic cod populations might be decimated.
It was a global-warming success story except that the ice was drawing away from the shore faster every summer, pulling with it the Arctic cod that the guillemots fed their offspring.
How does a manager tell the difference between, for example, an illegally harvested Northeast Arctic cod and a perfectly legal Eastern Baltic cod?
