After much perusing of books and the internet, our best guess is that it might be Notothenia coriiceps, or Black Cod. It may have been around 650 mm long.
It is typically found in the Southern Ocean: probably circum-Antarctic on the continental shelf. So far, known from the western Ross Sea, Balleny islands, Adélie Land, Antarctic Peninsula and associated islands, islands of the Scotia Arc to South Georgia, Weddell Sea, Bouvet, and the sub-Antarctic islands of the Indian Ocean sector. Ref: http://www.fishbase.org/summary/4702
Either way it has very pretty yellow fish lips.
Any species ID tips are welcome.....
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Fish head in Garden Cove. Photo: Jacque Comery
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