Species Profiles. Life Histories and Environmental Requirements of Coastal Fishes and Invertebrates (Pacific Northwest). Dover and Rock Soles

• Main Author: Horton, Howard F.
• Other Authors: OREGON STATE UNIV CORVALLIS DEPT OF FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1989
• Subjects: Ecology; Biological Oceanography; *FISHES; WASHINGTON(STATE); COMMERCE; ENVIRONMENTS; POPULATION; ESTIMATES; PROFILES; QUALITY; HISTORY; YIELD; LONG LIFE; MARINE BIOLOGY; CALIFORNIA; LIFE(BIOLOGY); FISHERIES; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; SEA WATER; TAXONOMY; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; SHELF LIFE; NETS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; BERING SEA; REQUIREMENTS; COASTAL REGIONS; MICROSTOMUS PACIFICUS; LEPIDOPSETTA BILINEATA; FLATFISH; SOLE(FISH); Bering Sea; Dover; Pacific; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA225441; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA225441

This species profile is one of a series on coastal aquatic organisms, principally fish. The profiles are designed to provide coastal managers, engineers, and biologists with a brief comprehensive sketch of the biological characteristics and environmental requirements of the species and to describe how populations of the species may be expected to react to environmental changes caused by coastal development. Each profile has sections on taxonomy, life history, ecological role, environmental requirements, and economic importance, if applicable. This report considers Microstomus pacificus (Lockington), (Dover sole), and Lepidopsetta bilineata (Ayres), (Rock sole). The excellent quality of the flesh, fresh or frozen, and long shelf life have made the Dover sole one of the most important of the small flatfishes on the Pacific Coast. They are commercially important from Santa Barbara, California, to British Columbia. The rock sole is listed as one of the key species in Washington inside waters where it is the target of commercial trawl fisheries. It is listed as a principal flatfish species in the North Pacific commercial fisheries. The estimated maximum sustained yield for rock sole in the eastern Bering Sea and the Aleutian Islands region was 100,000 t in 1987.