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The fecundity of plaice from the south and west coasts of Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

T. B. Bagenal
Affiliation:
The Marine Station Millport

Extract

This paper is the fifth in a series dealing with the fecundity of flatfish (Bagenal, 1957a, b; 1958, i960), and is concerned with the numbers of eggs in, the roes of ripening female plaice Pleuronectes platessa L. caught off the south and west coasts of Ireland during November and December 1958. The fish were obtained from Wexford, Ballycotton, Schull, Dingle, Galway and Killybegs (Fig. 1).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1960

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