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this document. 322 TRODUCTION The northern rock sole (Lepidopsetta polyxystra n. sp.) is distributed primarily on the eastern Bering Sea continental shelf and in much lesser amounts in the Aleutian Islands region. Two species of rock sole are known to occur in the North Pacific ocean, a northern roc...

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Main Authors: Thomas Wilderbuer And, Thomas K. Wilderbuer, Gary E. Walters
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2002
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.12.9815
http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/refm/docs/2002/BSrocksole.pdf
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Summary:this document. 322 TRODUCTION The northern rock sole (Lepidopsetta polyxystra n. sp.) is distributed primarily on the eastern Bering Sea continental shelf and in much 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 . polyxystra) and a southern rock sole (L. bilineata.) (Orr and Matarese 2000). These species have an overlapping distribution in the Gulf of Alaska, but the northern species predominates the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands populations where they are managed as a single stock