Bering Strait Seafood Species Many of the Commonly Occurring Species of the Bering Strait Region Are Important for Subsistence and Commercial Fishing

Bering Strait Seafood Species Many of the commonly occurring species of the Bering Strait region are important for subsistence and commercial fishing.

Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) Pacific halibut Hippoglossus( stenolepis) Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida) Pacific herring Clupea( pallasii) Arctic flounder Liopsetta( glacialis) pond smelt (Hypomesus olidus) Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus) pricklebacks (Stichaeidae) Arctic lamprey (Lampetra camtschatica) rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) Arctic sand lance (Ammodytes hexapterus) ringtail snailfish Liparis( rutteri) Alaska blackfish Dallia( pectoralis) rock flounder Lepidosetta( bilineata) Alaska plaice (Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus) rock greenling (terpug) (Hexagrammus lagocephalus) Bering cisco (Coregonus laurettae) round whitefish Prosopium( cylindraceum) Bering poacher (Occella dodecaedron) sculpins (Cottidae) Bering wolfish Anarhichas( orientalis) salmon: chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) broad whitefish Coregonus( nasus) salmon: chum (Oncorhynchus keta) burbot (Lota lota) salmon: coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch) capelin (Mallotus villosus) salmon: pink (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) Dolly Varden (Salvinus malma) salmon: sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka) humpback whitefish Coregonus( pidschian) saffron cod (Eleginus gracilis) inconnu (sheefish) Stenodus( leucichthys nelma) snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) king crab: blue (Paralithodes platypus) starry flounder Platichthys( stellatus) king crab: red (Paralithodes camtschaticus) sturgeon poacher (Angonus acipenserinus) lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) threespine stickleback (Gasterocteus aculeatus) least cisco (Coregonus sardinella) tubenose poacher (Pallasina barbata aix) longhead dab (Liranda probiscidea) walleye pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus) longnose sucker (Catostomus catostomus) whitespotted greenling (Hexagrammos stelleri) northern pike (Esox lucius) yellowfin sole Limanda( aspera) ninespine stickleback (Pungitius pungitius)