Canary rockfish (Sebastes pinniger) COSEWIC assessment and status report
Official title: COSEWIC assessment and status report on the Canary Rockfish in Canada
Table of contents
- Assessment summary
- Executive summary
- COSEWIC history, mandate, membership and definitions
- Lists of figures, tables and appendices
- Species information
- Distribution
- Habitat
- Biology
- Description of fisheries
- Summary of catches
- Fisheries management
- Population sizes and trends
- Rescue effect
- Limiting factors and threats
- Special significance of the species
- Existing protection or other status designations
- Technical Summary
- Acknowledgements and Information sources
- Collections examined and Data sources
- Appendix 1: Reconciling catch and surveys for Canary rockfish
COSEWIC
Assessment and status report
on the
Canary Rockfish
Sebastes pinniger
in Canada
Threatened
2007
COSEWIC
Committee on the Status
of Endangered Wildlife
in Canada
COSEPAC
Comité sur la situation
des espèces en péril
au Canada
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. 2007. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the canary rockfish Sebastes pinniger in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vii + 71 pp.
(Species at Risk Status Reports)
Production note:
Production of this status report was overseen and edited by Howard Powles, Co-chair COSEWIC Marine Fishes Specialist Subcommittee.
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 le sébaste canari (Sebastes pinniger) au Canada.
Cover illustration:
Canary rockfish -- Illustration by Dr. R. Harriott (St. Andrews, N.B.). Source: Hart, J.L. 1973. Pacific Fishes of Canada. Fish. Res. Board Canada. Bulletin 180. 740 p.
© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, 2008
Catalogue No.: CW69-14/538-2008E-PDF
ISBN: 978-0-662-48457-8
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