ii Abstract The Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) was selected as a new aquaculture candidate towards diversification from salmonid culture. The species was chosen because of its high market value and perceived good growth in the cold waters of the target farming regions. Extensive and collaborative research efforts formed the basis for the culture of this benthic marine species. Bro...

Killer whale (Orcinus orca) depredation (whales stealing or damaging fish caught on fishing gear) adversely impacts demersal longline fisheries for sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria), Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) and Greenland turbot (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides) in the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands and Western Gulf of Alaska. These interactions increase direct costs and opportunity co...

background: we aimed to determine the frequency of liver copper storage diseases in iranian children with cryptogenic chronic liver disease (cld). materials and methods: one-hundred and twenty children (52 girls, 70 boys; age range: 3 months-14 years) with cld who attended children's medical center in tehran, iran during the years 1997 through 1999, were enrolled. all viral, metabolic and autoi...

Mercury (Hg) pollution in the ocean is an issue of global concern, however bioaccumulation regimes this ubiquitous pollutant marine apex predators have important knowledge gaps. Our fish length and stable isotope (δ15N δ13C) normalized data Greenland halibut (GH) (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides) showed that Hg fillet tissue decreased by ~35–50 %, over a ten-year period from 2006 to 2015 (n = 7 in...