🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Haddock live?

Melanogrammus aeglefinus has 956,410 records in 26 countries and territories, from 1613 to 2026. Most records come from Canada.

Haddock
Haddock β€” Steven G. Johnson / CC BY-SA 3.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataGadiformesGadidaeMelanogrammus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: July. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Canada 494,170
United Kingdom 386,758
United States 41,679
Norway 22,349
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 5,939
Sweden 1,216
Russia 1,009
Ireland 751
Netherlands 557
Denmark 437
Isle of Man 291
Faroe Islands 154
Iceland 150
ZZ 147
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 118
Greenland 55
France 24
Germany 21
Belgium 4
Italy 3
Antarctica 2
Bermuda 2
CΓ΄te d'Ivoire 1
Namibia 1
Singapore 1
Uzbekistan 1

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.