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  2. Pacific halibut - Wikipedia

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    Small halibut catches are reported in coastal Washington, Oregon, and California. Pacific halibut is broken up into 10 regularity management areas. Halibut are demersal, living on or near the bottom of the water and prefer water temperatures ranging from 3 to 8 °C (37.4 to 46.4 °F). Pacific halibut belong to the family Pleuronectidae.

  3. Hippoglossus - Wikipedia

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    Scientific name Distribution Hippoglossus hippoglossus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Atlantic halibut) northern Atlantic, from Labrador and Greenland to Iceland, the Barents Sea and as far south as the Bay of Biscay and Virginia Hippoglossus stenolepis P. J. Schmidt, 1904 (Pacific halibut)

  4. Oregonia gracilis - Wikipedia

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    Pacific halibut are a major predator of O. gracilis. Other predators include octopus and sea otters. Other predators include octopus and sea otters. The main food source of O. gracilis is floating kelp and algae that they capture utilizing a waiting strategy in order to maintain cryptosis.

  5. Halibut - Wikipedia

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    The Pacific halibut went down a ZZ/ZW route, with the female being heterogametic, around 4.5 million years ago. [13] [14] The master sex-determining gene of the Pacific halibut is located on chromosome 9 and it is likely to be bmpr1ba. [15] The gene sox2 is likely to play the same role in the Greenland halibut.

  6. California halibut - Wikipedia

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    A fish that closely resembles the California halibut is the Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis), which is a larger species found in the northern Pacific Ocean. While the Pacific halibut has a similar flat body shape, it is generally larger and can reach 300 pounds (140 kg), and can be distinguished by its slightly different coloration and ...

  7. International Pacific Halibut Commission - Wikipedia

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    The International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) is an International Fisheries Organization, having Canada and the United States as its members, responsible for the management of stocks of Pacific halibut or Hippoglossus stenolepis within the Pacific waters of its member states. It was founded by an international treaty concluded on March 2 ...

  8. Pleuronectidae - Wikipedia

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    They are found on the bottoms of oceans around the world, with some species, such as the Atlantic halibut, Hippoglossus hippoglossus, being found down to 2,000 m (6,600 ft). The smaller species eat sea-floor invertebrates such as polychaetes and crustaceans , but the larger righteye flounders, such as H. hippoglossus , which grows up to 4.7 m ...

  9. Paralichthyidae - Wikipedia

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    Large-tooth flounders or sand flounders are a family, Paralichthyidae, of flounders. [1] [2] The family contains 14 genera with a total of about 110 species.They lie on the sea bed on their right side; both eyes are always on the left side of the head, while the Pleuronectidae usually (but not always) have their eyes on the right side of the head.