[2] The Atlantic saury is an elongated slender fish with very long, beak-like jaws with minute teeth.

[2][3] The Atlantic saury is native to the northern Atlantic Ocean, being present off the coast of North America, from the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to North Carolina and Bermuda, and off the coast of Western Europe.

[1] When it was caught off the coast of Pembrokeshire in 1904, it was not recognised as a British fish,[3] but with warming sea temperatures, it is expanding its range northwards.

It is a migratory fish, moving inshore during the summer and back out into deep water later in the year.

The juveniles inhabit tropical mid-oceanic waters; their jaws are relatively short at first, but elongate as they grow.