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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 

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.

Flathead Sole
 

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

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

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

Alaska Plaice

Latin Name: Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus

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

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