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Observations on coastal fish fauna during a spring bloom of Phaeocystis pouchetii in the eastern Irish Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

S.I. Rogers  and
S.J. Lockwood
S.I. Rogers
Affiliation:
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Directorate of Fisheries Research, Fisheries Laboratory, Benarth Road, Conwy, Gwynedd, LL32 8UB
S.J. Lockwood
Affiliation:
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Directorate of Fisheries Research, Fisheries Laboratory, Benarth Road, Conwy, Gwynedd, LL32 8UB
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Abstract

Unusually high densities of juvenile flatfish in some areas of a nursery ground, and complete absences from other areas, were associated with a dense bloom of the colonial alga Phaeocystis pouchetii along the coast of North Wales. A possible explanation for these movements, and for the presence of patches of anoxic sediments, is proposed.

Type
Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 70 , Issue 2 , May 1990 , pp. 249 - 253
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1990

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