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Pelagic records of the lumpsucker, Cyclopterus lumpus L.
Author(s) -
Blacker R. W.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
journal of fish biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1095-8649
pISSN - 0022-1112
DOI - 10.1111/j.1095-8649.1983.tb02921.x
Subject(s) - pelagic zone , fishery , biology , oceanography , norwegian , geology , linguistics , philosophy
Since the development of mid‐water trawls in the mid‐1960s, the lumpsucker, Cyclopterus lumpus , has been found to occur frequently in mid‐water. Records from cruises of English research vessels show that lumpsuckers occur pelagically from the southern North Sea to about 80°N off Spitsbergen, usually in the upper 50–60 m, and often over abyssal depths of the Norwegian Sea and the north‐east Atlantic.