Section 6 ROCK SOLE

• Main Authors: Thomas Wilderbuer And, Thomas K. Wilderbuer, Gary E. Walters
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Gulf of Alaska; Kamchatka Peninsula; Pacific; Kamchatka; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.12.8018; http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/npfmc/safes/2000/6rocksole.bsa.pdf

INTRODUCTION The northern rock sole (Lepidopsetta polyxystra n. sp.) 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 (L. polyxystra)...