Orange Roughy
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Every year, fisheries harvest thousands of tonnes of orange roughy from the world’s oceans, primarily through the use of bottom trawling.

In addition to the orange roughy, it is also known as the red roughy, deep sea perch, or simply slimehead.

In the 1970s, fisheries stopped referring to orange roughy as slimeheads in order to make them more marketable as commercial fish.