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　　Today I caught this burbot, 60 cm long, from Red River. Of course, it is my new record of this species.

　　Wikipedia:

　　The burbot (Lota lota) is the only freshwater gadiform (cod-like) fish. It is also known as the lawyer, and (misleadingly) eelpout, and closely related to the common ling and the cusk. It is the only member of the genus Lota.

　　江鳕（学名：Lota lota）为鳕科江鳕属的鱼类。分布于亚洲、欧洲及北美洲北部等北温带及亚寒带，包括在中国广布于黑龙江水系如乌苏里江、松花江、牡丹江、嫩江、额尔古纳河、内蒙古海拉尔河、呼伦池等，属于北半球北部典型冷水性淡水鱼类之一。其生存的海拔范围为-230至-1米。Commercial significance

　　The burbot is edible. In Finland, its roe is sold as caviar. There is an annual spearfishing tournament held near Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada. One of the highlights of the tournament is the fish-fry where the day's catch is served up deep-fried. Burbot meat when cooked tastes very similar to the American lobster (Homarus americanus). Hence, other times referred to as "poor man's lobster."

　　In the 1920s, Minnesota druggist Theodore H. Rowell and his father, Joseph Rowell, a commercial fisherman on Lake of the Woods, were using the burbot as feed for the foxes on Joe’s blue fox farm. They discovered that the burbot contained something that improved the quality of the fox’s furs; this was confirmed by the fur buyers who commented that these furs were superior to other furs they were seeing. Ted[who?] felt it was something in the burbot, so he extracted some oil and sent it away to be assayed. The result of the assay was that the liver of the burbot is 3–4 times more potent in vitamin D, and 4–10 times more potent in vitamin A than “good grades” of cod liver oil. The vitamin content varies in Burbot from lake to lake, where their diet may have some variation. Additionally, the burbot liver makes up approximately 10% of the fish's total body weight, and their liver is six times larger than freshwater fish of comparable size. Ted also found in his research that the oil is lower in viscosity, and more rapidly digested and assimilated than most other fish liver oils. Ted went on to found the Burbot Liver Products Company which later became Rowell Laboratories, Inc., of Baudette, Minnesota, and is today a subsidiary of Solvay Pharmaceuticals of Brussels, Belgium

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