American plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides)

Scientific name: Hippoglossoides platessoides Fabricius, 1780

American plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides)

The American plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides) is a marine fish of the family Pleuronectidae.

Biology

Adults are most abundant from 90 m to 250 m deep and bottom temperatures of -0.5 to 2.5?C. Live on soft bottoms. Feed on invertebrates and small fishes. Batch spawner. Marketed fresh and frozen; eaten steamed, fried, microwaved and baked.

Source: FishBase, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

Species facts

Scientific name
Hippoglossoides platessoides
Family
Pleuronectidae (Righteye flounders)
Order
Pleuronectiformes (Flatfishes)
Class
Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
Maximum length
82.6
Depth range
10–3000 m (33–9843 ft)
Environment
Marine; demersal; oceanodromous; depth range 10 - 3000 m, usually 90 - 250 m
Climate
Temperate
Distribution
Eastern Atlantic: off eastern Greenland and from the English Channel to the coast of Murmansk. Western Atlantic: southern Labrador in Canada and western Greenland to Rhode Island in USA. Two subspecies were recognized, H. p. platessoides from northwestern Atlantic, and H. p. limandoides from the northeastern Atlantic.
Conservation status (IUCN)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Uses
Fisheries: highly commercial
Resilience
Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (rm=0.43; K=0.06-0.12; tm=2-11; tmax=30; Fec=50,000)

Sources

Taxonomy, distribution and biology data: FishBase (Froese, R. and D. Pauly, eds.), licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

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