Canary rockfish (Sebastes pinniger) COSEWIC assessment and status report

Official title: COSEWIC assessment and status report on the Canary Rockfish in Canada

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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 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)

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