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Sebastidae (Rockfishes, rockcods and thornyheads) > Sebastinae
Etymology: Sebastes: Greek, sebastes = august, venerable (Ref. 45335).
Environment / Climate / Range
Ecology
Marine; demersal; depth range 50 - 300 m (Ref. 35388). Temperate, preferred 9°C (Ref. 107945); 71°N - 50°N, 53°W - 21°E
Northeast Atlantic: Norwegian coast from Kattegat to Tanafjord in Finnmark, rare off Bear Island, northern part of North Sea, around Shetland Islands, Scotland, northern England, Wales and Ireland, rare in the English Channel; Rockall Bank, common around Faroes and Iceland; sporadic off East Greenland.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?, range 10 - 15 cm
Max length : 35.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 4570); common length : 25.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 4570); max. published weight: 1.0 kg (Ref. 35388); max. reported age: 40 years (Ref. 35388)
Inhabit rocky bottoms, close to the shore, between 10 and 150 m, but also recorded at 760 m (Ref. 4570). Live in shoals and moves closer to the shore in the summer (Ref. 35388). Feed on various small crustaceans and young fishes (Ref. 4570). Viviparous (Ref. 34817).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Wheeler, A., 1992. A list of the common and scientific names of fishes of the British Isles. J. Fish Biol. 41(suppl.A):1-37. (Ref. 5204)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 115185)
CITES (Ref. 94142)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
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Estimates of some properties based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82805): PD
50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01230 (0.00726 - 0.02086), b=3.02 (2.86 - 3.18), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref.
93245).
Trophic Level (Ref.
69278): 4.0 ±0.67 se; Based on food items.
Resilience (Ref.
69278): Very Low, minimum population doubling time more than 14 years (K=0.07; tm=20; tmax=40).
Prior r = 0.17, 2 SD range = 0.05 - 0.62, log(r) = -1.77, SD log(r) = 0.65, Based on: 1 K, 1 tgen, 1 tmax, 1 Fec records
Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): High vulnerability (64 of 100) .