Roughhead Grenadier (Macrourus berglax) COSEWIC assessment and status report

Official title: COSEWIC Assessment and Status Report on the Roughhead Grenadier Macrourus berglax in Canada

Roughhead grenadier (Macrourus berglax)

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 CW69-14/525-2007E-PDF
ISBN 978-0-662-46005-3

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