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Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- Species
- Physical characteristics
- Diet
- Sex-determining genes
- Halibut fishery
- Individual fishing quotas
- Overfishing and population decline
- Atlantic halibut population
- Pacific and Greenland halibut populations
- Evolutionary diversification of fragmented populations
- As food
- Nutrition
- Food preparation
- Other species sometimes called "halibut"
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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Halibut is the common name for three species of flatfish in the family of right-eye flounders. In some regions, and less commonly, other species of large flatfish are also referred to as halibut.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “halibut” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.