International Pacific Halibut Commission International Pacific Halibut Commission The International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) is an International Fisheries Organization, having Canada and the United States as its members, responsible for the management of stocks of Pacific halibut or "Hippoglossus stenolepis" within the Pacific waters of its member states. It was founded in 1923 by an international treaty. The original treaty has been revised three times (1953,1976,1979). The 1979 amendment clarified the role of the IPHC in the management of the fishery through the North Pacific Halibut Act of 1982. It has carried out many activities including the use of chartered commercial fishing vessels to
Fourhorn poacher more commonly reach a TL of . The maximum recorded weight is , and the maximum recorded age is 7 years. The fourhorn poacher is preyed on by "Hippoglossus stenolepis". Its own diet consists of crustaceans including shrimp, crabs, isopods, amphipods, and ostracods, as well as bony fish, gastropods, and polychaetes. Fourhorn poacher The fourhorn poacher ("Hypsagonus quadricornis", also known as the four-horned sea-poacher) is a fish in the family Agonidae (poachers). It was described by Achille Valenciennes in 1829, originally under the genus "Aspidophorus". It is a marine, temperate water-dwelling fish which is known from the northern Pacific Ocean,