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Line-Fishing on the Continental Slope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

G. R. Forster
Affiliation:
The Plymouth Laboratory

Extract

A method of line fishing in depths of over 1000 fm has been used successfully from R.V. ‘Sarsia’ on the continental slope. The catches have been mainly black squaloids but two brotulids, truly abyssal fishes, have also been taken.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1964

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