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Yellowfin Sole

  • Latin Name: Limanda aspera (aka Pleuronectes asper)
  • Location: Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands (BSAI). Yellowfin sole is one of the most abundant flatfish species in the Bering Sea and is the target of the largest flatfish fishery in the United States.
  • Season: January 20 - December 31 
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Northern Rock Sole
 
  • Latin Name: Lepidopsetta polyxystra
  • Market/vernacular names: sole, flounder, rock sole, roughscale sole
  • Location: Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands (BSAI). Northern rock sole are distributed primarily on the Eastern Bering Sea continental shelf and in much lesser amounts in the Aleutian Islands region.
  • Season: January 20 - December 31.
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Flathead Sole
 

  • Latin Name: Hippoglossoides elassodon
  • Market/vernacular names: sole, flounder
  • Location: Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands (BSAI)
  • Season: January 20 – December 31
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Rex Sole

  • Scientific name: Glyptocephalus zachirus
  • Season: April-August
  • Products: whole round
  • Location: From the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands to Cedros Island, central Baja California
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Arrowtooth Flounder
 

  • Latin Name: Atheresthes stomias/Atheresthes evermanni
  • Market/vernacular names: flounder, arrowtooth
  • Location: Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands (BSAI) and the Gulf of Alaska (GOA)
  • Season: BSAI: May 1–December 31
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Alaska Plaice

Latin Name: Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus

  • Location: Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands (BSAI) – primarily on the eastern Bering Sea continental shelf.
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