hippoglossoides, in the Northwest Atlantic from Tagging in the Labrador-Newfoundland Region*

• Main Author: W. R. Bowering
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Funk Island; Funk Island Bank; Greenland; Hamilton Bank; Newfoundland; Davis Strait; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.624.8464; http://journal.nafo.int/j05/bowering.pdf

Migratory patterns of Greenland halibut in the Northwest Atlantic were investigated by two tagging experiments in 1969 and 1971 using longlines to capture the fish and three experiments in 1979-80 using otter trawls. Of nearly 24,400 tags applied, only 1.3 % have been recovered to the end of 1983, t...