A demersal species that feeds on sandbanks, it is caught together with cod as part of mixed fisheries, generally with bottom trawls.
Speiceas grinnill atá ann a bhíonn á bheathú féin ar na hoitreacha gainimh; déantar iascaireacht air in éineacht leis an trosc, i gcomhthéacs na n-iascach measctha, go ginearálta sa trál grinnill.