WOLF-FISH | The Wolf-fish’s head is large and its snout blunt. The jaw teeth are strong, canine like in front, rounded and freqently rather worn teeth at the back. Teeth on vomer large, reaching back beyond the line of palatine teeth on either side of them. Rather rounded caudal fin with 22-26 fin rays.

SIZE | The Wolf-fish may become 125 cm long.

DEPTH | The Wolf-fish breeds on rocky bottoms, sometimes over sand or mud, at 1-500 meters. In trawl catches: mainly at 100-150 meters (less than 50 meters in the White Sea).

COLOUR | The body is yellowish or bluish-grey, with 9-13 darker cross-bars extending onto base of dorsal fin.

FOOD | Hard-shelled molluscs, crabs, sea-urchins and other echinoderms.

WHERE TO CATCH IT | The Wolf-fish breeds in Spitsbergen southward to the White Sea, Scandinavian coasts, North Sea, the British Isles, also Iceland and south-eastern coasts of Greenland. Elsewhere, western coasts of Greenland, Labrador to Cape Cod.