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Table 1 
Estimated mean abundance (no. of fish/km 2 ), biomass (g/km 2 ), and the percent (%) of each demersal fish species collected in the 
northeastern Chukchi Sea, Alaska, during 1990 and 1991. The 21 most abundant species are labeled in parentheses according to 
a decreasing scale of abundance from 1 (most abundant) to 21 (less abundant). 
1990 1991 
Species Abundance (%) Biomass (%) Abundance (%) Biomass (%) 
Cottidae (sculpins) 
Icelus spatula 1 
I. spiniger 1 
Cottidae sp. 
Artediellus sp. (21) 
A. pacificus 
A. scaber (7) 
Blepsias bilobus 
Enophrys diceraus 
Eurymen gyrinus 
Gymnocanthus tricuspis (4) 
Hemilepidotus papilio (20) 
Megalocottus platycephalus 
Microcottus sellaris 1 
Myoxocephalus sp. (3) 
M. polyacanthocephalus 
M. quadricornis 
M. verrucosus (6) 
Myoxocephalus sp. 2 
Myoxocephalus sp. 1 
Nautichthys pribilovius 1 
Triglops forficatus 1 
T. pingeli 
Pleuronectidae (flounders) 
Hippoglossoides robust us (5) 
Pleuronectes aspera 
P. proboscideus 
P. sakhalinensis 1 
P. quadrituberculatus 
Platichthys stellatus 
Reinhardtius hippoglossoides 
Hippoglossus stenolepis 1 
Zoarcidae (eelpouts) 
Lycodes palearis (11) 
L. polaris (14) 
L. raridens (15) 
L. turneri 
L. rossi 
Lycodes sp. 1 
Lycodes sp. 2 
Lycodes sp. 
Gymnelis hemifasciatus 1 
G. viridis 
Agonidae (poachers) 
Aspidophoroides bartoni 1 
A. olriki 
Podothecus acipenserinus (16) 
Occella dodecaedron 1 
Pallasina barbata 
2 
3 
12 
3 
2 
3 
10 
3 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
26 
(0.10) 
280 
(0.06) 
2 
(0.01) 
47 
(0.01) 
141 
(0.55) 
583 
(0.12) 
1 
3 
169 
(0.03) 
5 
(0.02) 
188 
(0.04) 
2 
3 
31 
(0.01) 
783 
(3.06) 
9,070 
(1.84) 
28 
(0.11) 
571 
(0.12) 
15 
(0.06) 
944 
(0.19) 
2 
3 
12 
3 
1,573 
(6.15) 
49,167 
(9.99) 
1 
(.01) 
167 
(0.03) 
6 
(0.02) 
442 
(0.09) 
238 
(0.93) 
12,604 
(2.56) 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
2 
3 
12 
3 
2 
3 
20 
3 
137 
(0.54) 
1,698 
(0.35) 
(11.56) 
(15.46) 
486 
(1.90) 
17,406 
(3.54) 
20 
(0.08) 
746 
(0.15) 
5 
(0.02) 
181 
(0.04) 
2 
3 
12 
3 
18 
(0.07) 
2,467 
(0.50) 
2 
(0.01) 
1,365 
(0.28) 
2 
(0.01) 
85 
(0.02) 
2 
3 
256 
(0.05) 
(2.11) 
(4.59) 
133 
(0.52) 
4,802 
(0.98) 
83 
(0.33) 
7,780 
(1.58) 
67 
(0.26) 
8,078 
(1.64) 
8 
(0.03) 
580 
(0.12) 
4 
(0.02) 
137 
(0.03) 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
2 
3 
12 
3 
1 
3 
30 
(0.01) 
(1.16) 
(4.37) 
1 
3 
24 
3 
2 
(0.01) 
85 
(0.02) 
57 
(0.22) 
1,077 
(0.22) 
2 
3 
11 
3 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
5 
(0.05) 
272 
(0.20) 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
197 
(2.28) 
704 
(0.51) 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
130 
(1.50) 
1,106 
(0.81) 
1 
(0.01) 
17 
(0.01) 
494 
(5.71) 
5,228 
(3.81) 
9 
(0.11) 
414 
(0.30) 
10 
(0.12) 
944 
(0.72) 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
90 
(1.05) 
1,295 
(0.94) 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
1,033 
(11.95) 
35,017 
(25.51) 
108 
(1.25) 
4,550 
(3.31) 
2 
(0.02) 
318 
(0.23) 
4 
(0.05) 
15 
(0.01) 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
131 
(1.52) 
1,294 
(0.94) 
(25.61) 
(37.29) 
25 
(0.29) 
940 
(0.68) 
101 
(1.17) 
1,505 
(1.10) 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
16 
(0.19) 
2,016 
(1.47) 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
(1.65) 
(3.25) 
24 
(0.27) 
536 
(0.39) 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
71 
(0.82) 
5,241 
(3.82) 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
8 
(0.09) 
92 
(0.07) 
8 
(0.09) 
92 
(0.07) 
4 
(0.04) 
112 
(0.08) 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
0.00 
30 
(0.35) 
72 
(0.05) 
(1.66) 
(4.48) 
0.00 
0.00 
0 
(0.00) 
0.00 
0.00 
0 
(0.00) 
24 
(0.28) 
147 
(0.11) 
0.00 
0.00 
0 
(0.00) 
2 
(0.02) 
9 
(0.01) 
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