The diversity, distribution and status of deep‐water elasmobranchs in the Rockall Trough, north‐east Atlantic Ocean

• Published in: Journal of Fish Biology
• Main Authors: Neat, F. C., Burns, F., Jones, E., Blasdale, T.
• Other Authors: Scottish Government
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2015
• Subjects: Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Rockall Trough; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfb.12822; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fjfb.12822; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jfb.12822

Data from a scientific deep‐water trawl fisheries survey in the north‐east Atlantic were analysed to determine the spatial and bathymetric distribution of elasmobranch species and assess the change in relative abundance over the period 1998–2013. During this period, commercial fisheries for deep‐wat...