Greenland halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides)

Scientific name: Reinhardtius hippoglossoides Walbaum, 1792

Greenland halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides)

The Greenland halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides) is a marine fish of the family Pleuronectidae.

Biology

Often caught pelagically. Adults prefer bottom temperatures of -0.5?C to 6.0?C. Epibenthic. Feed on crustaceans, fishes, eelpouts, capelin, redfishes, deep sea prawns and other bottom invertebrates. Batch spawner. Utilized dried or salted and frozen; can be steamed and fried. Size of the Greenland halibut collected from 400-599 m deep in eastern Bering Sea, ranged from 9 to 99 cm FL with a mean of 56 cm.

Source: FishBase, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

Species facts

Scientific name
Reinhardtius hippoglossoides
Family
Pleuronectidae (Righteye flounders)
Order
Pleuronectiformes (Flatfishes)
Class
Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
Maximum length
80.0
Common length
56.0
Depth range
1–2000 m (3–6562 ft)
Environment
Marine; benthopelagic; oceanodromous; depth range 1 - 2000 m, usually 500 - 1000 m
Climate
Boreal
Distribution
Circumglobal: In arctic and temperate waters; northern hemisphere. Sea of Japan off Honshu north to Shishmaref, Alaska in the Chukchi Sea, throughout the Aleutian Islands, and southeast to northern Baja California, Mexico. North Atlantic: New Jersey, USA to Spitsbergen (Svalbard Islands) and the Barents Sea south to Ireland. Northwest Atlantic: Canada.
Conservation status (IUCN)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Uses
Fisheries: highly commercial
Resilience
Low, minimum population doubling time 4.5 - 14 years (K=0.07-0.10; tm=7-12; tmax=30; Fec=6,800)

Sources

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

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