Essential Fish Habitat Source Document: American Plaice, 'Hippoglossoides211 platessoides', Life History and Habitat Characteristics

摘要

The American plaice, Hippoglossoides platessoides, is an arctic-boreal211u001epleuronectid flatfish that inhabits both sides of the North Atlantic. In Europe, 211u001eit is known as the long rough dab and occurs from Iceland and Spitzbergen south 211u001eto the North Sea, the western Baltic, and as far south as the English Channel. In 211u001ethe western Atlantic, it is common from the outer coast of Labrador, south from 211u001eHamilton Inlet, Newfoundland, on the Grand Banks, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 211u001ewest and south to Cape Cod. It occurs as far south as Montauk Point, NY. In 211u001eCanadian waters, American plaice have been exploited since the start of of the 211u001eotter trawl fishery in 1947. It is one of four major species contributing to the 211u001eNewfoundland and Labrador fisheries and is the most abundant flatfish species in 211u001ethe northwest Atlantic.