Bering wolffish COSEWIC assessment and status report

Official title: COSEWIC Assessment and Update Status Report on the Bering Wolffish in Canada

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Table of contents

• Assessment Summary
• Executive Summary
• COSEWIC Mandate, Membership and Definitions
• Lists of Figures and Appendices
• Species Information
• Distribution
• Habitat
• General Biology
• Population Size and Trends
• Limiting Factors and Threats
• Special Significance of the Species
• Existing Protection or Other Status Designations
• Summary of Status Report
• Technical Summary
• Acknowledgements and Literature Cited
• Biographical Summary of Contractor and Authorities Consulted
• Appendix 1

COSEWIC status reports are working documents used in assigning the status of wildlife species suspected of being at risk. This report may be cited as follows:

COSEWIC 2002. COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the Bering Wolffish Anarhichas orientalis in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vi + 13 pp.
(Species at Risk Status Reports)

Previous Report:

Houston, J.J.P. and D.E. McAllister. 1989. COSEWIC status report on the Bering wolffish Anarhichas orientalis in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. 17 pp.

For additional copies contact:

COSEWIC Secretariat
c/o Canadian Wildlife Service
Environment Canada
Ottawa ON
K1A 0H3

Tel.: 819–953–3215
Fax: 819–994–3684
E-mail: COSEWIC/COSEPAC@ec.gc.ca
http://www.cosewic.gc.ca

Également disponible en français sous le titre Évaluation et Rapport de situation du COSEPAC sur la situation du loup de Béring (Anarhichas orientalis ) au Canada – Mise à jour.

Cover illustration:
Bering wolffish -- Illustrated by Charles Douglas. Reproduced courtesy of the Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa Canada.

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2004
Catalogue No.: CW69-14/355-2004E-PDF
ISBN: 0-662-36318-3
HTML: CW69-14/355-2004E -HTML
0-662-36319-1