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Arctic Rockling

Gaidropsarus argentatus (Reinhardt 1837)

Diet

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Feeds on decapod, amphipod, and euphausiid crustaceans, sometimes fishes are included in the diet.
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Distribution

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Northern Atlantic: off southeastern coasts of Greenland, all but southern coast of Iceland, the Faroe-Shetland ridge to Norwegian coasts north from Bergen. In the western North Atlantic from Greenland southward to off Baffin Island and Labrador to the Grand Bank.
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Habitat

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Occasionally found in Canadian Atlantic waters. Deepwater species. Found offshore at depths of 150- 2000 m on soft bottoms.
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Habitat

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benthic
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