| Fishbase |
| Country | Locality | Absolute Fecundity | Relative Fecundity | Fecundity/length relationship | ||||
| min | max | Min | Mean | Max | a | b | ||
| British Isles (West stock) | 200,000 | 450,000 | ||||||
| NE Atlantic, 1976 | 130,000 | 1,100,000 | ||||||
| Northwest Atlantic (1983-1984) | 243,400 | 1,158,500 | ||||||
| not specified, 1976 | 88,000 | 541,000 | ||||||
| NW Atlantic, 1983-84 | 0 | 144,500 | ||||||
| Off southern England, northern France and in the North Sea | 0 | 0 | 171 | 442 | ||||
| to be filled | 200,000 | 450,000 | ||||||
| W. Europe, 1986 | 0 | 104 | ||||||
| Western spawning grounds (45°15N; 3°15W and 46°15N; 04°45W), 1977 | 255,000 | 1,025,000 | 282530 | 0.04 | 4.48 | |||
| Canada | Cape Breton, Nova Scotia (1987) | 208,500 | 1,548,400 | |||||
| Ireland | Rockall Trough and Porcupine Bank (1995-1999) | 0 | 235,673 | |||||
| Norway | Bergen (1979-1980) | 140,000 | 360,000 | |||||
| USA | Cape Sable to Block Island, Gulf of St. Lawrence (northern contingent) | 211,000 | 397,000 | |||||
| USA | Gulf of Maine and Middle Atlantic Bight (southern contingent) | 285,000 | 1,980,000 | |||||
| USA | Northwest Atlantic (1987) | 155,900 | 1,643,000 | |||||