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Catches and geographical distribution of selachians on the western coast of Brittany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Jean Rousset
Jean Rousset
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Biologie Animale, Faculté des Sciences, Avenue Victor Le Gorgeu, 29287 Brest Cedex, France
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Abstract

In this study the selachians were captured monthly on inshore grounds (10–30 m deep) with a beam-trawl over ten years (1975–1984), mainly in the Bay of Douarnenez, the Roads of Brest and the Bertheaume Cove area (west Brittany). Catches were composed of five species, accounting numerically for 6–5% of the mean catch of the trawled fishes, but reached up to 20% in Bertheaume Cove. On account of the adaptability to different bottom substrates Raja clavata is the most common species. Raja microocellata is uncommon except in the Cove of Bertheaume where it represented half of the selachian biomass captured.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 70 , Issue 2 , May 1990 , pp. 255 - 260
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1990

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