Sebastes fasciatus, Acadian redfish

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Sebastes fasciatus Storer, 1854

Acadian redfish
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Perciformes/Scorpaenoidei (Scorpionfishes) > Sebastidae (Rockfishes, rockcods and thornyheads) > Sebastinae
Etymology: Sebastes: Greek, sebastes = august, venerable (Ref. 45335).

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; demersal; depth range 70 - 592 m (Ref. 5951), usually 128 - 366 m (Ref. 5951). Temperate; 74°N - 35°N, 75°W - 13°W

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Northwest Atlantic: Gulf of St. Lawrence to shelf waters of Nova Scotia in Canada. Northeast Atlantic: off Iceland and western Greenland (Ref. 4570).

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm 22.3  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 47.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 49746)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Inhabits shallow water; rocky or clay-silt bottom (Ref. 5951). Bears live young. Gregarious during all life. Feeds on euphausiids, decapods, mysids, small mollusks and fishes. Ovoviviparous (Ref. 4570). A long-lived species with estimated life span of 30-50 years, slow growing and has low fecundity. Late juveniles (11-20 cm total length) were primarily associated with boulder reefs that have deep interstices amongst the boulders; as well as in exposed boulders that do not have crevices along their lower margins, but are surrounded by dense patches of cerianthid anemones, Cerianthus borealis. The use of both boulder and cerianthid habitats are either on an encounter basis, regardless of habitat saturation or predation pressure, or because boulder reefs serve as recruitment habitats, and cerianthid habitats serve as a conduit for redfish moving away from saturated boulder reef sites (Ref. 58487).

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Ovoviviparous (Ref. 4570).

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Robins, C.R. and G.C. Ray, 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. 354 p. (Ref. 7251)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)

  Endangered (EN) (A1bd); Date assessed: 01 August 1996

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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FAO - Fisheries: species profile; Publication: search | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 0.8 - 7.8, mean 5.2 °C (based on 147 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01023 (0.00682 - 0.01535), b=3.13 (3.01 - 3.25), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & Genus-body shape (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.2   ±0.2 se; based on diet studies.
Resilience (Ref. 120179):  Low, minimum population doubling time 4.5 - 14 years (tm=5.5).
Prior r = 0.07, 95% CL = 0.05 - 0.11, Based on 1 full stock assessment.
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Moderate to high vulnerability (49 of 100). 🛈
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 31.1 [11.9, 105.5] mg/100g; Iron = 0.275 [0.114, 0.699] mg/100g; Protein = 17.6 [16.4, 18.8] %; Omega3 = 1.34 [0.56, 3.30] g/100g; Selenium = 39.4 [14.5, 112.6] μg/100g; VitaminA = 28.4 [8.6, 92.1] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.469 [0.244, 0.840] mg/100g (wet weight);