Pacific ocean perch (Sebastes alutus) is a saltwater species recorded in the United States. It is found at depths of 0–825 m.
Scientific name: Sebastes alutus · Water: Saltwater
Size: up to 53 cm
The Pacific ocean perch is a sebastid that is abundant in offshore waters, recorded from the surface down to 825 m. Its young are pelagic up to the age of three, it grows slowly, and it is viviparous. Its range is the North Pacific, from Honshu in Japan to Cape Navarin in the Bering Sea and La Jolla in California, and along the Aleutians from Stalemate Bank and Bowers Bank to the Alaska Peninsula; its stocks have suffered severe decline from overfishing. Maximum length is about 53 cm total length, and it can live 103 years, maturing at about 33.2 cm. It is a highly commercial species and a gamefish, one of the straddling stocks of the north-west Pacific, marketed as fillets and utilized fresh and frozen. Fishing vulnerability is high at 59 of 100 and resilience very low, and climate vulnerability is moderate at 38 of 100; no IUCN assessment is recorded for it.
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