“…It is a boreal species inhabiting the Okhotsk and Bering Seas, waters off the eastern Kamchatka, Japan, Kuril, and Aleutian Islands, as well as the Gulf of Alaska and along the American and Canadian Pacific coast down to California [ 12 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 ]. The information available from the literature on the distribution and biology of this species is not sufficient to understand its life history cycle, and it has so far been scattered and fragmentary [ 4 , 5 , 6 , 8 , 18 , 20 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 63 ].…”