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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Merluccius productus

Pacific hake or whiting

WoRMS 272458ITIS 164792GBIF 2415676key worms:272458
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2026-08-05: itis_id 164792 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Tessa Rehill · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Merluccius productus
Pacific hake or whiting91 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

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Photograph of Merluccius productus
Photo · NOAA Photo Library, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

The North Pacific hake, Pacific hake, Pacific whiting, or jack salmon is a ray-finned fish in the genus Merluccius, found in the northeast Pacific Ocean from northern Vancouver Island to the northern part of the Gulf of California. It is a silver-gray fish with black speckling, growing to a length of 90 cm (3 ft).W CalCOFI holds 15,135 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as egg and larva.R

15,135
observations
61,552
records
59,798
sampling events
1951–2023
years
2
datasets
egg · larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • CUFES Fish Eggs 47,271 obs · 47,271 events · 1997–2022 · egg
    name used: Merluccius productus · code merluccius_productus
  • Ichthyoplankton 14,281 obs · 12,527 events · 1951–2023 · larva · egg
    name used: Merluccius productus Pacific hake or whiting · code 901

How big is it
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Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the CUFES Fish Eggs table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_cufes.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:272458%22