The Bristol Channel sole (Solea solea (L.)): A fisheries case study
In: Blaxter, J.H.S.; Southward, A.J. (Ed.) (1993). Adv. Mar. Biol. 29. Advances in Marine Biology, 29. Academic Press: London. ISBN 0-12-026129-4; e-ISBN 978-0-12-026129-1. X, 394 pp., more In: Advances in Marine Biology. Academic Press: London, New York. ISSN 0065-2881; e-ISSN 2162-5875, more |  |
| Keywords | Beam trawlers
Data > Fishery data > Fishing effort
Distribution
Fishes > Osteichthyes > Pleuronectiformes > Soleidae > Solea > Dover soles
Solea solea (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
ANE, British Isles, Bristol Channel [Marine Regions]; ANE, Celtic Sea [Marine Regions]
Marine/Coastal |
| Abstract | This chapter describes work on the sole of the Bristol Channel Four related, specific programmes are involved: (i) the annual assessment work undertaken within the framework of the International Council for Exploration of the Sea (ICES), which involves determination of distribution, recruitment, and abundance; (ii) juvenile tagging programmes to examine the dispersion of young sole; (iii) a programme to investigate the dispersion of sole eggs and larvae and their route to nursery grounds and (iv) the determination of the abundance and relative status of the sole independent from the ICES assessments. In describing the population biology of the Bristol Channel sole, it is natural to relate it to that from the other populations, and biological parameters from other populations have had to be used in some evaluations of the Bristol Channel sole. This chapter covers the classification and identification of the sole and related genera. It also describes the physical and hydrodynamic characteristics of the Bristol Channel and northern Celtic Sea. The chapter also highlights spawning behavior of the sole and new data presented on the seasonal development of the gonads, time of spawning, size and age at maturity, determinacy of fecundity and absolute fecundity. |
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