Bering Strait Seafood Species Many of the commonly occurring species of the Bering Strait region are important for subsistence and commercial fishing. © Michel Roggo / WWF © Bjorn Solberg Guliksen / WWF – Canon © Kevin Schafer / WWF © NOAA Fisheries 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) .