Roughhead Grenadier (Macrourus berglax) COSEWIC assessment and status report
Official title: COSEWIC Assessment and Status Report on the Roughhead Grenadier Macrourus berglax in Canada
Table of contents
- Assessment summary
- Executive summary
- Species information
- Distribution
- Habitat
- Biology
- Population sizes and trends
- Area occupied
- Limiting factors and threats
- Special significance of the species
- Existing protection or other status designations
- Technical summary
- Acknowledgements
- Literature cited
- Biographical summaries of report writers
- Authorities consulted
- Appendix A - Construction of abundance indices
- Appendix B - Calculation of area occupied
Special concern 2007
COSEWIC
Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada
COSEPAC
Comité sur la situation des espèces en péril au Canada
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 roughhead grenadier Macrourus berglax in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vii + 40 pp.
Production note
COSEWIC would like to acknowledge Krista Baker and D.P. Swain for writing the status report on the roughhead grenadier Macrourus berglax in Canada, prepared under contract with Environment Canada. This report was overseen and edited by Howard Powles, Co-chair, COSEWIC Marine Fishes Species Specialist Subcommittee, and Peter Shelton, member, Marine Fishes Species Specialist Subcommittee.
For additional copies contact:
COSEWIC Secretariat
c/o Canadian Wildlife Service
Environment Canada
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0H3
Tel.: 819-953-3215
Fax: 819-994-3684
COSEWIC E-mail
COSEWIC Website
Également disponible en français sous le titre Ếvaluation et Rapport de situation du COSEPAC sur le grenadier berglax (Macrourus berglax) au Canada.
Cover illustration
Roughhead grenadier -- Drawn by H.L.Todd and reproduced from Collette and Klein-MacPhee (2002) with permission from the Division of Fishes, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
©Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2007
Catalogue N° CW69-14/525-2007E-PDF
ISBN 978-0-662-46005-3
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