Daggertooth pike conger

The dagger-tooth pike conger or conger pike (Muraenesox cinereus) is a type of eel. They live on soft bottoms down to a depth of about 100 metres (330 ft). They commonly reach length of 150 cm (4.9 ft), but may grow as long as 200 cm (6.6 ft). It occurs in the Red Sea, on the coast of the northern Indian Ocean, and in the West Pacific from Indochina to Japan. It has also invaded the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal.

Culinary uses

Dagger-tooth pike conger is a major commercial species, with annual catches reaching about 350,000 tonnes in recent years. The countries reporting the largest landings were China and Taiwan. It is a traditional food in Japanese cuisine, where it is known as hamo (ハモ, 鱧).

Conger pike meat has been used as a co-ingredient in creating crab stick.

Parasites

As other fish, the dagger-tooth pike conger harbours several species of parasites.
A species of trichosomoidid nematode which parasitizes the muscles of the fish off Japan has been described in 2014 and named Huffmanela hamo, in reference to the Japanese name of the fish. Accumulations of eggs of the parasite are visible as 1-2 mm black spots in the flesh of the fish. The parasite is rare and the consumption of infected fish meat has no consequences for humans.

Hamo (Dean of Lincoln)

Hamo de Belers (also spelt Beleyr, Bellers) was a Priest in the Roman Catholic Church. Not to be confused with Hamo who was Dean of York.

Career

He was appointed Archdeacon of Leicester between 1187–1189.

He was then appointed Dean of Lincoln and was a Prebendary of Aylesbury in 1189 and continued in this role until his death in 1195.

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Hamo (Dean of York)

Hamo was a 12th- and 13th-century English cleric. He was the Diocese of York's dean, treasurer, and precentor, as well as the archdeacon of East Riding.

Nothing is known of Hamo's background or early years. Hamo first appears as a prebendary of the cathedral chapter of York sometime between 1162 and 1174, but he was probably a canon at York before 1171. He may have held the prebend of Husthwaite. By 1177 he had been appointed to the office of precentor of York. He held that office until at least 1195, perhaps as late as 1198, as he was mentioned in a document dated to between 1194 and 1198. In September 1189 Hamo claimed that he had been appointed to the treasurership in 1181, but did not actually hold the treasurership until 1199. In 1192 the Archbishop of York, Geoffrey tried to replace Burchard du Puiset, the Treasurer of York, with Hamo, as part of Geoffrey's disputes with Burchard and other members of the cathedral chapter. The dispute over the treasurership was resolved by the gift of a church to Hamo by Burchard and Hamo's relinquishing of any claim to the treasurership.