Changes in fish and benthos catches off the Danish coast in September 1981
Dyer, M.F.; Pope, J.G.; Fry, P.D.; Law, R.J.; Portmann, J.E. (1983). Changes in fish and benthos catches off the Danish coast in September 1981. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 63(4): 767-775
In: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. Cambridge University Press/Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom: Cambridge. ISSN 0025-3154; e-ISSN 1469-7769, more
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- Dyer, M.F.
- Pope, J.G.
- Fry, P.D.
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| Abstract |
During a routine North Sea demersal fish survey, very low fish catches were recorded at two primary stations off the Danish coast in September 1981. The catch of benthos at these stations was much greater than the previous year, and underwater photographs from a headline camera revealed that this was a result of most infaunal species having emerged from beneath the sand. The phenomenon was assumed to be caused by low oxygen concentrations in bottom water following the collapse of a bloom of the dinoflagellate Ceratium furca. |
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