Incidence and Distribution of Infestation by Sphyrion lumpi (Krøyer) on the Redfish, Sebastes marinus (L.), of the Western North Atlantic

• Published in: Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
• Main Authors: Templeman, Wilfred, Squires, H. J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1960
• Subjects: General Medicine; Newfoundland; Hamilton Inlet; North Atlantic; Sebastes marinus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f60-002; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/f60-002

Investigations of infestation of redfish by female Sphyrion lumpi, in the Newfoundland area, showed that in the Labrador area Sphyrion were generally distributed all over the body but with the greatest infestation in the cloacal region. In the eastern Grand Bank area there was a strongly ventral dis...