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• Main Authors: Rock Sole Thomas, Thomas K. Wilderbuer, Gary E. Walters, F Abc
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Gulf of Alaska; Kamchatka Peninsula; Pacific; Kamchatka; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.12.2679; http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/npfmc/safes/1999/rocksole.pdf

INTRODUCTION The rock sole bilineata) is distributed primarily on the eastern Bering Sea continental shelf and in lesser amounts in the Aleutian Islands region. Two species of rock sole are known to occur in the North Pacific ocean, a northern rock sole (Lenidonsetta sp. cf. bilineata) southern rock sole bilineata) (pers. Jay Orr). These species have an overlapping distribution in the Gulf but the northern species predominates the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands populations where they are managed as a single stock. Centers of abundance occur off the Kamchatka Peninsula (Shubnikov and Lisovenko British Columbia (Forrester and Thompson the central Gulf of Alaska, and in the southeastern Bering Sea and Sample 1975). Adults exhibit a benthic lifestyle and, in the eastern Bering Sea, occupy separate winter (spawning) and summertime feeding distributions on the continental shelf. Rock sole spawn during the winter-early spring period of December-March. HISTORY Rock sole catches increased a