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Teleostei (teleosts) > Perciformes/Scorpaenoidei (Scorpionfishes) > Sebastidae (Rockfishes, rockcods and thornyheads) > Sebastinae
Etymology: Sebastes: Greek, sebastes = august, venerable (Ref. 45335).

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Marine; bathypelagic; oceanodromous (Ref. 51243); depth range 300 - 1441 m (Ref. 58426). Deep-water; 79°N - 41°N, 67°W - 35°E

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Eastern Atlantic: Norwegian Sea from Lofoten Island northward to the western and northern coasts of Spitsbergen; southern part of the Barents Sea rarely to 35°E , on the Iceland-Faroes Ridge, Iceland and Greenland. Western Atlantic: Baffin Bay to Nova Scotia in Canada (Ref. 7251).

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Maturity: L_m 43.1 range ? - ? cm
Max length : 77.5 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 106276); max. reported age: 75 years (Ref. 45673)

Inhabit deep waters (Ref. 4570). Epibenthic-pelagic (Ref. 58426). Bear live young. Gregarious throughout life. Feed on euphausiids, hyperiids, cephalopods, chaetognaths and small fishes. Ovoviviparous (Ref. 4570). Longevity was determined from isotope ratios and given as at least 65 years in general and at least 75 years in the waters off Nova Scotia (Ref. 45673).

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Ovoviviparous.

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Hureau, J.-C. and N.I. Litvinenko, 1986. Scorpaenidae. p. 1211-1229. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, Paris. Vol 3. (Ref. 4570)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 29 January 2009

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Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Fisheries: commercial

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 0.4 - 6.6, mean 3.6 °C (based on 151 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00851 (0.00513 - 0.01411), b=3.04 (2.90 - 3.18), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & Genus-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 4.2 ±0.61 se; based on food items.

Generation time: 14.1 (10.3 - 18.9) years. Estimated as median ln(3)/K based on 11 growth studies.

Resilience (Ref. 120179): Very Low, minimum population doubling time more than 14 years (K=0.05-0.10; tm=10-13).

Prior r = 0.18, 95% CL = 0.12 - 0.26, Based on 10 full stock assessments.

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): High to very high vulnerability (72 of 100).

Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649): Moderate vulnerability (42 of 100).

Price category (Ref. 80766): Low.

Nutrients (Ref. 124155): Calcium = 12.1 [5.8, 36.4] mg/100g; Iron = 0.194 [0.085, 0.601] mg/100g; Protein = 18.3 [16.7, 19.7] %; Omega3 = 0.359 [0.105, 1.161] g/100g; Selenium = 43.1 [16.9, 112.9] μg/100g; VitaminA = 34.8 [4.6, 255.9] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.311 [0.186, 0.705] mg/100g (wet weight); based on nutrient studies.

Sebastes mentella Travin, 1951