Rougheye rockfish (Sebastes aleutianus)

Scientific name: Sebastes aleutianus Jordan & Evermann, 1898

Rougheye rockfish (Sebastes aleutianus)

The Rougheye rockfish (Sebastes aleutianus) is a marine fish of the family Sebastidae.

Species facts

Scientific name
Sebastes aleutianus
Family
Sebastidae (Rockfishes, rockcods and thornyheads)
Order
Scorpaeniformes (Scorpionfishes and Flatheads)
Class
Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
Maximum length
97.0
Depth range
25–900 m (82–2953 ft)
Environment
Marine; bathydemersal; depth range 25 - 900 m
Climate
Deep-water
Distribution
North Pacific: Japan to Navarin Canyon in the Bering Sea (but not in the Sea of Okhotsk), throughout the Aleutian Islands, and south to San Diego, California, USA.
Conservation status (IUCN)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Uses
Fisheries: commercial
Resilience
Very Low, minimum population doubling time more than 14 years (tmax=205)

Sources

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

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