What is Alaska plaice?
{{Taxobox | name = Alaska plaice | image = Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus.jpg | regnum = [[Animalia]] | phylum = [[Chordata]] | classis = [[Actinopterygii]] | ordo = [[Pleuronectiformes]] | familia = [[Pleuronectidae]] | genus = ''[[Pleuronectes]]'' | species = '''''P. quadrituberculatus''''' | binomial = ''Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus'' | binomial_authority = [[Peter Simon Pallas|Pallas]], 1814 }} '''Alaska plaice''' (''Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus'') are [[salt water]] [[fish]] that live in the north [[Pacific Ocean]]. Like most [[flatfish]], they live on the bottom of the [[continental shelf]], up to 600 [[metre]]s deep. Their [[geography|geographical]] range is from the [[Gulf of Alaska]] in the east, to the [[Chukchi Sea]] in the north, to the [[Sea of Japan]] in the west. Alaska plaice feed mostly on [[polychaete]]s, but also eat [[amphipoda|amphipod]]s and [[echiura]]ns. Most [[commercial fishery|commercial fisheries]] do not want to catch Alaska plaice; but many are caught by [[trawler]]s trying to catch other [[bottom fish]]. So many Alaska plaice get caught anyway that, for example, the 2005 [[total allowable catch]] in the [[Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area]] (BSAI) was reached before the end of May of that year. Alaska plaice can live for up to 30 years, and grow to 60 [[metre|centimetres]] (24 [[inch]]es) long, but most that get caught are only seven or eight years old, and about 30&nbsp;cm (12&nbsp;in). ==Related pages== *[[American plaice]] *[[European Plaice]] ==References== *[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3089/is_4_60/ai_60591421 1998 Marine Fisheries Review article] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311035145/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3089/is_4_60/ai_60591421 |date=2007-03-11 }} *[http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/index/infobulletins/bulletin.asp?BulletinID=1088 Bulletin announcing reaching the total allowable catch of Alaska plaice for 2005] ([[National Marine Fisheries Service]]) {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Flatfish]]