Sebastes mentella/ Sébaste /Rotbarsch / Scorfano atlantico / Окунь морской (клювач) / 尖吻平鮋 /アカウオ
Slow-growing, redfish matures after 14 years – and can sometimes live up to 75.
Redfish can grow up to 50-75 cm, but can be typically found at 45 cm. During daylight, red fish migrates towards deep water – but at night, rises to the upper layers of the ocean.
The majority of our redfish is caught in the Irminger Seas’ Reykjanes Ridge, off the south west of Iceland. We also catch redfish in the east and south of Greenland, as well as bycatch in Barents Sea and Norwegian Sea cod and haddock fisheries.
Redfish is caught with a bottom otter trawl (OTB).
The total catch of shallow and deep sea pelagic redfish across all countries:
2007 | 56,401 MT
2008 | 52,917 MT
2009 | 59,500 MT
2010 | 76,953 MT
2011 | 62,023 MT
2012 | 46,358 MT
2013 | 48,940 MT
2014 | 48,467 MT
2015 | 164,200 MT
2016 | 178,700 MT
Composition of food per 100g edible portion