swap_horiz Deepsea Whiting Alternatives

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Orange Roughy

A deep-sea fish (Hoplostethus atlanticus) capable of living over 150 years, with many populations severely depleted by c...

Commercial Long Lived Deep Sea Bathyal

7.8 Good

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Rougheye Rockfish

Sebastes aleutianus, the rougheye rockfish of the North Pacific, is among the longest-lived fish known, with verified ag...

Commercial Pacific Long Lived Deep Sea

7.7 Good

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Patagonian Toothfish

A large Notothenioid (Dissostichus eleginoides) marketed internationally as Chilean sea bass and managed under CCAMLR to...

Commercial Large Bathyal Toothfish

7.6 Good

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Sablefish

Sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) is a commercially important North Pacific species marketed as "black cod," prized for its...

Commercial Pacific Bathyal Oily Flesh

7.4 Good

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Luminous Hake

Steindachneria argentea, the sole species in family Steindachneriidae, notable for a ventral bioluminescent organ beneat...

Commercial Deep Sea Bathyal Hake

7.1 Good

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Oilfish

Ruvettus pretiosus (Gempylidae), a circumglobal deep-sea fish whose flesh is dense in indigestible wax esters, causing g...

Commercial Deep Sea Mesopelagic Gempylidae

6.9 Fair

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Slimehead

Slimeheads (family Trachichthyidae) are deep-water fish with mucus-filled head canals; the orange roughy was rebranded f...

Orange Deep Sea Bathyal Trachichthyidae

6.9 Fair

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Deepwater Tilefish

Deepwater Tilefish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) is a large western North Atlantic species that constructs burrows on...

Commercial Colorful Deep Sea Burrowing

6.9 Fair

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Roundnose Grenadier

Roundnose Grenadier (Coryphaenoides rupestris) is a slow-reproducing North Atlantic rattail listed as vulnerable by the...

Commercial Grenadier Bathyal Macrouridae

6.8 Fair

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Portuguese Dogfish

Portuguese Dogfish (Centroscymnus coelolepis) is one of the deepest-living sharks known, recorded at depths exceeding 3,...

Shark Deep Sea Bathyal Somniosidae

6.8 Fair

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Abyssal Cusk

An ophidiid cusk (Ophidiidae) adapted to abyssal depths, among the deepest-living vertebrates; close relatives in the fa...

Deep Sea Elongated Abyssal Ophidiidae

6.8 Fair

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Blue Antimora

Antimora rostrata, the blue antimora, is a morid cod widespread in deep Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans, considered...

Deep Sea Elongated Bathyal Moridae

6.8 Fair

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Splendid Alfonsino

A circumglobally distributed berycid (Beryx splendens) that aggregates around seamounts at 200–800 m depth and supports...

Commercial Red Deep Sea Bathyal

6.7 Fair

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Gulper Shark

Gulper Shark (Centrophorus granulosus) is a vulnerable deep-water shark heavily exploited for its squalene-rich liver oi...

Shark Deep Sea Bathyal Dogfish

6.6 Fair

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Pacific Ocean Perch

Sebastes alutus, the Pacific ocean perch, is a commercially important rockfish ranging from California to Japan that sup...

Commercial Long Lived Schooling Bathyal

6.6 Fair

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Canary Rockfish

Sebastes pinniger, the canary rockfish, is a brightly orange-yellow rockfish of the northeast Pacific declared overfishe...

Commercial Pacific Deep Sea Yellow Orange

6.6 Fair

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Alfonsino

A deep-water berycid (Beryx decadactylus) with a wide distribution across tropical and subtropical seas, targeted commer...

Commercial Red Deep Sea Bathyal

6.4 Fair

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Blackbelly Rosefish

An ovoviviparous scorpaenid (Helicolenus dactylopterus) found in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean at 50–1,000 m, t...

Commercial Mediterranean Deep Sea Bathyal

6.2 Fair

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Deep-sea Cod (Laemonema laureysi)

Laemonema laureysi is a morid cod (Moridae) from the deep eastern Atlantic, belonging to a family of cod-like fish that...

Deep Sea Elongated Bathyal Moridae

5.9 Mediocre

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Roughy (Optivus elongatus)

Optivus elongatus is an elongate roughy (Trachichthyidae) from the Indo-Pacific, distinct from the commercially targeted...

Red Deep Sea Elongated Bathyal

5.8 Mediocre