Ocean perch
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Sebastes marinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Family: Sebastidae (Rockfishes, rockcods and thornyheads), subfamily: Sebastinae picture (Semar_u4.jpg) by Dolgov, A.
Order: Scorpaeniformes (scorpionfishes and flatheads)
Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
FishBase name: Ocean perch
Max. size: 100.0 cm TL (male/unsexed; Ref. 4570); max. published weight: 15.0 kg (Ref. 35388); max. reported age: 60 years
Environment: pelagic; oceanodromous (Ref. 51243);
marine;
depth range 100 – 1000 mClimate: temperate; 3 – 7°C; 79°n - 43°n, 94°W - 71°E
Importance: fisheries: highly commercial; gamefish: yes
Resilience: Low, minimum population doubling time 4.5 - 14 years (rm=0.23; K=0.06-0.08; tm=10-12; tmax=60; Fec='only few young')
Distribution:
Gazetteer Eastern Atlantic: Kattegat and North Sea, northward to Spitsbergen, southern part of Barents Sea eastward to Kanin Banks and Novaya Zemlya, rare in White Sea, Iceland and eastern Greenland. Western Atlantic: Greenland and southeastern Labrador in Canada to New Jersey in USA (Ref. 7251).
Biology: Found off the coast from 100-1000 m; juveniles found in fjords, bays and inshore waters. Normally trawled in deep water (Ref. 9988). Feed mostly on euphausiids in summer; herrings in autumn and winter; capelins, herrings, euphausiids and ctenophores in spring. Gregarious throughout life. A slow growing species (Ref. 9988). Viviparous, copulation takes place in late summer or early autumn (Ref. 35388, 34817); in winter females give birth to 50,000-350,000 pelagic larvae of 8 mm length (Ref. 35388). Utilized fresh and frozen; eaten fried, broiled, microwaved and baked (Ref. 9988).
Red List Status: Not in IUCN Red List (Ref. 53964)
Dangerous: reports of ciguatera poisoning , Dammann, A.E.. 1969
Coordinator:
Main Ref: Hureau, J.-C. and N.I. Litvinenko. 1986. (Ref. 4570)
