Burbot (Lota lota) is a freshwater, brackish species recorded in the United States. It is found at depths of 1–700 m.
Scientific name: Lota lota · Water: Freshwater, Brackish
Size: up to 152 cm
The burbot is a demersal lotid recorded from 1 to 700 m, and it also enters brackish water. Its range is circumpolar in fresh water, from the Loire drainage in France eastward to the White, Barents and Arctic Sea basins, the upper Volga drainage and the western Caspian basin, the rivers draining to the Black Sea and the Rhône drainage, native in Italy only in the Po drainage, and it is now extirpated from England. Maximum length is about 152 cm total length, commonly about 40 cm, and it can live 20 years, maturing at about 37.5 cm. It is a commercial species, an experimental aquaculture species, a gamefish and a public aquarium fish, with a very high price category. Fishing vulnerability is high to very high at 66 of 100 and resilience low. IUCN lists it as least concern.
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