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Pollock or pollack (1983). 9780550102348, Chambers. ISBN 9780550102348 (pronounced ) is the common name used for either of the two species of North Atlantic ocean fish in the genus Pollachius. Pollachius pollachius is referred to as "pollock" in North America, Ireland and the United Kingdom, while Pollachius virens is usually known as saithe or coley in Great Britain and Ireland (derived from the older name coalfish). Other names for P. pollachius include the Atlantic pollock, European pollock, lieu jaune, and lythe or lithe;
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while P. virens is also known as Boston blue (distinct from bluefish) and silver bill.
Because of its slightly grey colour, pollock is often prepared, as in Norway, as fried , or if juvenile-sized, breaded with oatmeal and fried, as in Shetland. Year-old fish are traditionally split, salted, and dried over a peat hearth in Orkney, where their texture becomes wooden. Coalfish can also be salted and smoked and achieve a salmon-like orange color (although it is not closely related to the salmon), as is the case in Germany, where the fish is commonly sold as Seelachs ("sea salmon").
In 2009, UK supermarket Sainsbury's briefly renamed Atlantic pollock "colin" in a bid to boost ecofriendly sales of the fish as an alternative to cod. Sainsbury's, which said the new name was derived from the French for cooked pollock (colin]]), launched the product under the banner "Colin and chips can save British cod."
Pollock is regarded as a "low-mercury fish" a woman weighing can safely eat up to per week, and a child weighing can safely eat up to .
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