Status review of copper rockfish (Sebastes caurinus), quillback rockfish (S. malinger), and brown rockfish (S. auriculatus) in Puget Sound, Washington

In response to a petition (Wright 1999) to list 18 species of marine fish in Puget Sound under the ESA, NMFS initiated status reviews of seven of these species: Pacific hake,Merluccius productus (Ayres, 1855); Pacific cod, Gadus macrocephalus (Tilesius, 1810); walleye pollock, Theragra chalcogramma (Pallas, 1815); Pacific herring, Clupea pallasi (Valenciennes, 1847); brown rockfish, Sebastes auriculatus (Girard, 1854); copper rockfish, S. caurinus (Richardson, 1845); and quillback rockfish, S. maliger (Jordan and Gilbert, 1880). The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) formed a Biological Review Team (BRT), composed of scientists with expertise in one or more of these species, to conduct these status reviews. This status review summarizes the biological and environmental information gathered in that process and the preliminary conclusions reached by the BRT for brown rockfish, copper rockfish and quillback rockfish. This document is part of a larger effort by the National Marine Fisheries Service to complete status reviews for all seven of the petitioned species of marine fish in Puget Sound. 2001 NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) NWFSC (Northwest Fisheries Science Center) Library Public Domain 1861