A comparison of the deep‐water demersal fish assemblages of the Rockall Trough and Porcupine Seabight, eastern North Atlantic: continental slope to rise

• Published in: Journal of Fish Biology
• Main Authors: Gordon, J. D. M., Merrett, N. R., Bergstad, O. A., Swan, S. C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1996
• Subjects: Porcupine Seabight; Rockall Trough; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.1996.tb06078.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1095-8649.1996.tb06078.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1095-8649.1996.tb06078.x

Fishery surveys of the continental slope to the west of the British Isles have shown quite marked differences between areas in both the proportion and abundance of marketable or potentially marketable species. In general, the northern slopes lying to the west of Scotland were considered to have a gr...