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Anoplopoma fimbria

Description

Anoplopoma fimbria (Pallas, 1814).

Blackcod or Sablefish. To 120 cm (47.2 in) FL (DFO); about 122.5 cm (48.2 in) TL. Central Honshu, Japan (Sasaki 1985), and Russian north-western Pacific Ocean (Orlov and Tokranov 2019), to Aleutian Islands and Bowers Bank, to Bering Sea south of Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska (Allen and Smith 1988), to west of Bahía San Bartolome (27°41’N, 115°36’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Depth: juveniles often near shore, as shallow as surface (M.L., pers. obs.); adults at least as shallow as 12 m to 2,740 m (39–8,989 ft) (min.: Sigler et al. 2019; max.: McFarlane and Beamish 1983).

Notes

Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 114, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Sasaki, T. (1985) Studies on the sablefish resources in the North Pacific Ocean. Bulletin of the Far Seas Fisheries Research, Laboratory, Shimizu, Japan, 22.
  • Orlov, A. M. & Tokranov, A. M. (2019) Checklist of deep-sea fishes of the Russian northwestern Pacific Ocean found at depths below 1000 m. Progress in Oceanography, 176, https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. pocean. 2019.102143
  • Allen, M. J. & Smith, G. B. (1988) Atlas and zoogeography of common fishes in the Bering Sea and northeastern Pacific. NOAA Technical Report NMFS, 66.
  • Sigler, M. F. & Echave, K. B. (2019) Diel vertical migration of sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria). Fisheries Oceanography, 28, 517 - 531. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / fog. 12428
  • McFarlane, G. A. & Beamish, R. J. (1983) Biology of adult sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) in waters off western Canada. In: Melteff, B. R. (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Sablefish Symposium. University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska Sea Grant Report 83 - 8, pp. 59 - 80.