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Report on the Pelagic Copepoda collected at Plymouth in 1888–89

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

Gilbert C. Bourne
Gilbert C. Bourne
Affiliation:
Fellow of New College, Oxford, and Resident Director of the Association
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The Copepoda not only form the greatest part of the pelagic life in temperate seas, but are also of the greatest importance in pelagic economy. Feeding on minute organisms and particles of animal and vegetable matter, they are themselves a prey to larger organisms. Some fishes such as the herring, pilchard, and mackerel feed almost exclusively on Copepoda at certain seasons of the year, and experienced fishermen are accustomed to look on the swarms of Copepods which make their appearance in the spring and early summer as the sure precursors of a shoal of fish.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , July 1889 , pp. 144 - 152
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1889

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