Depending on the location, several species of food fish are called ‘whiting’: in some English speaking countries, this type of fish, related to the cod, is called just ‘whiting’; in the USA, it is called ‘English whiting’, and this name is also used for several species of “hake”, a family of fish species; in Canada, the ‘Alaskan Pollack fish” is called ‘whiting’; in India and Australia, ‘whiting’ is used, with another name before it, for several species of fish from a different family of fish – the common names are: King George whiting, Japanese whiting, northern whiting, sand whiting, and school whiting.