My partner likes cod roe (eggs) but does anyone know?!
My partner likes cod roe (eggs) but does anyone know?
what they look like when the cod spawns them as this will settle a difference of opinion and do they put them in the sand in the sea bed.
Answers:
Cod roe (for culinary purposes) never leave the fish - they're a compact parcel of masses of eggs that haven't been released - that's where you get your taramasalata from.
For nature purposes, if the female does release them by coercion from the male and he fertilises them through a process called 'milting', they then gestate (in the sand and get wafted about by drifts of the ocean), mature slowly through a couple of stages and become little fish which, if left alone can grow as big as a middle sized shark.
The roe you buy in the fishmongers, is cut from the fish during filleting.
Smoked cods roe is like caviar
they are clearish/opal colour and yes the bury them in shallow water in the sand and cover them over
they look like a lung shaped group of small eggs very tight and sort of beige pink you boil them then fry them then they are sort of grey herring roe is smaller soft roe (milts) are smaller and soft and velvety to eat the hard roe look similar to the cod roe but smaller
An adult female cod lays between 4 and 6 million eggs at a single spawning. The eggs are released into the water to become fertilized. They develop and grow without help from the parents. All but a handful of these millions of eggs will end up as food for other water creatures.
Cod eggs hatch as they float in the ocean. Of the billions layed, only a small portion survive. Quite a number will drift into water that's too warm or too cold for them to live in. Others drift into water that's too deep. Some wash ashore and dry up. Still others are eaten by birds and other fish.
Cod spawn on the offshore banks in late winter and spring. Gradually, the eggs float to the surface layer.An adult female cod lays between 4 and 6 million eggs at a single spawning. The eggs are released into the water to become fertilized. They develop and grow without help from the parents. Cod eggs hatch as they float in the ocean
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/roe...