Arrow-toothed Halibut 



Arrow-toothed Halibut 



Atheresthes stomias (Jordan & Gilbert) 



The single species of this genus is one of the most remarkable 

 of the flounders. It approaches in form and general characters most 

 nearly to the cod-like fishes, from ancestors of which we suppose the 

 flounders to have descended. 



This fish is found from San Francisco to Bering Sea and is 

 most common northward. It is not rare in deep water off San 

 Francisco, where it is caught in considerable numbers in the sweep- 

 nets or paranzelles, used in Drake Bay. About Unalaska and 

 elsewhere northward it occurs in shallower water. It was dredged 

 in abundance by the Albatross on both sides of the Alaskan 

 Peninsula and in Bristol Bay in 32 to 406 fathoms; Mr. N. B. 

 Scofield found it in abundance in Chignik Bay, and we have taken 

 it at Unga and Karluk. 



This species reaches a length of 2 feet and is a good food-fish. 



Greenland Halibut 



Reinhardtius hippoglossoidcs (Walbaum) 



The Greenland halibut is found in Arctic parts of the Atlantic 

 and south to Finland and the Grand Banks. 



It is known also as the Greenland turbot and little halibut, 

 and is abundant on the coast of Greenland where it is found in 

 very deep water. 



It is said to be found chiefly in the ice-fiords and between 

 the great ice-fields in northern Greenland, and there only in the 

 coldest months in the year. It is fished for by the natives through 

 holes cut in the ice. In South Greenland it is caught on the 

 oceanic banks in 60 to 180 fathoms. In Fortune Bay, Newfound- 

 land, it is abundant in 60 to 300 fathoms, where it is caught chiefly 

 in winter. They are taken also on the outer edge of the oceanic 

 banks in 250 to 300 fathoms, a depth greater than that usually 

 frequented by the true halibut, and where the slope is so nearly 

 vertical that it would seem difficult for them to maintain a hold 

 upon the bottom. 



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