Alaska plaice

Alaska plaice

Taxobox | name = Alaska plaice
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Pleuronectiformes
familia = Pleuronectidae
genus = "Pleuronectes"
species = "P. quadrituberculatus"
binomial = "Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus"
binomial_authority = Pallas, 1814

Alaska plaice ("Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus") is a saltwater fish that live in the North Pacific Ocean. Like most flatfish, they live on the bottom of the continental shelf, up to 600 metres deep. Their geographic range is from the Gulf of Alaska in the east, to the Chukchi Sea in the north, to the Sea of Japan in the west. Alaska plaice feed mostly on polychaetes, but also eat amphipods and echiurans.

Most commercial fisheries do not want to catch Alaska plaice; but many are caught by commercial trawlers trying to catch other bottom fish. Thus, many Alaska plaice get caught anyway, so much that, for example, the 2005 total allowable catch in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI) was reached before the end of May of that year.

Alaska plaice can live for up to 30 years, and grow to 60 centimetres (24 inches) long, but most that get caught are only seven or eight years old, and about 30 cm (12 in).

ee also

*American plaice
*European plaice

References

* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3089/is_4_60/ai_60591421 1998 Marine Fisheries Review article]
* [http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/index/infobulletins/bulletin.asp?BulletinID=1088 Bulletin announcing reaching the total allowable catch of Alaska plaice for 2005] (National Marine Fisheries Service)


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