Beaked redfish (Sebastes mentella)

Scientific name: Sebastes mentella Travin, 1951

Beaked redfish (Sebastes mentella)

The Beaked redfish (Sebastes mentella) is a marine fish of the family Sebastidae.

Biology

Inhabit deep waters. Epibenthic-pelagic. Bear live young. Gregarious throughout life. Feed on euphausiids, hyperiids, cephalopods, chaetognaths and small fishes. Ovoviviparous. Longevity was determined from isotope ratios and given as at least 65 years in general and at least 75 years in the waters off Nova Scotia.

Source: FishBase, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

Species facts

Scientific name
Sebastes mentella
Family
Sebastidae (Rockfishes, rockcods and thornyheads)
Order
Scorpaeniformes (Scorpionfishes and Flatheads)
Class
Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
Maximum length
58.0
Depth range
300–1441 m (984–4728 ft)
Environment
Marine; bathypelagic; oceanodromous; depth range 300 - 1441 m
Climate
Deep-water
Distribution
Eastern Atlantic: Norwegian Sea from Lofoten Island northward to the western and northern coasts of Spitsbergen; southern part of the Barents Sea rarely to 35?E, on the Iceland-Faroes Ridge, Iceland and Greenland. Western Atlantic: Baffin Bay to Nova Scotia in Canada.
Conservation status (IUCN)
Least Concern (LC)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Uses
Fisheries: commercial
Resilience
Very Low, minimum population doubling time more than 14 years (K=0.05-0.10; tm=10-13)

Sources

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

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