Age- and length-at-maturity of female arrowtooth flounder (Atheresthes stomias) in the Gulf of Alaska

• Main Author: Stark, James W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Biology; Ecology; Fisheries; Bering Sea; Gulf of Alaska; Navarin; Okhotsk; Pacific; Theragra chalcogramma; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://aquaticcommons.org/8843/; http://fishbull.noaa.gov/1063/stark.pdf; http://aquaticcommons.org/8843/1/stark_Fish_Bull_2008.pdf

Arrowtooth flounder (Atheresthes stomias) has had the highest abundance of any groundfish species in the Gulf of Alaska since the 1970s (Matarese et al., 2003; Turnock et al., 2005; Blood et al., 2007); however, commercial catches have been restricted because Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis...