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Its large, flattened head is out of proportion with the rest of the body, which is conical in shape.
Its mouth, with a large number of teeth, is almost as wide as its body. Fleshy lips and lower jaw standing out from the upper jaw. No scales.
Has a spiracle by way of a "bait" over the head. Dark brownish, violet or greenish in colour, more or less mottled with a white belly.
Marketed
weights/grammages:
- White:
1 -2 kg/piece
2 - 4 kg/piece
4 - 6 kg/piece
over 6 kg/piece
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Brown:
0.5 kg - 0.7 kg/piece
0.7 kg - 1 kg/piece
1 - 1.5 kg/piece
1.5 - 3 kg/piece
over 3 kg/piece
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Tail:
from 1 kg/tail and more to a maximum of 4 kg/tail, both in white and brown
bellied monkfish.
Preparation and packing:
a) Whole and in tails
b) 5 - 6 - 7 kg POLYSPAN boxes
c) On ice
Benthonic. Lives on rocky bottoms with abundant vegetation, sand and sand channels in the rocks.
Depths from 10 to 500 metres. Carnivorous.
Caught by trawling.
