European Goosefish
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Lophiiformes
Lophiidae
Lophius
Lophius piscatorius
The various names for this fish - the European anglerfish, monkfish, goosefish - point to the fact that it has a very unconventional appearance, as indeed do all 24 members of this family of fishes. At first… More »
The goosefish is so unlike all other Gulf of Maine fishes that there is no danger of mistaking it for any other once it is seen. It is so much flattened, dorso-ventrally, and so soft in texture that when one is left stranded on the [page 533] shore it collapses until it is hardly thicker than a skate.
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Goosefish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Goosefishes are a family, Lophiidae , of anglerfishes. They are found in the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans where they live on sandy and muddy bottoms of the continental shelf and cont...
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Goosefish (Lophius americanus), also called monkfish, are distributed in the Northwest Atlantic from the Grand Banks and northern Gulf of St. Lawrence south to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Goosefish may be found from inshore areas to depths of at least 900 m (500 fathoms).
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The monkfish, known variously as the goosefish, anglerfish, or "allmouth," is a large, ugly, benthic (bottom-dwelling) fish found in the coastal Atlantic area. Its size ranges up to about three feet, and its body is composed mainly of a huge, gaping mouth attached to a muscular tail.
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Goosefish are among the most gluttonous of all fishes. Not only do they ambush small prey, aided by their fishing appendage, but they also engulf large food items. ... Sporting Qualities; Goosefish are seldom caught on hook and line, but they put up a fierce fight when they are hooked. Most are caught with commercial...
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