Results on main elasmobranch species captured during the 2001-2013 Porcupine Bank (NE Atlantic) bottom trawl surveys

• Main Authors: Ruiz-Pico, Susana, Velasco, Francisco, Baldó, Francisco, Rodríguez-Cabello, Cristina, Fernández-Zapico, Olaya
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Elasmobranches; Pesquerías; Centro Oceanográfico de Santander; Distribution; deep sea; Porcupine Bank; bottom trawl survey; Canicula; Common skate; Dipturus nidarosiensis; North Atlantic; Northeast Atlantic; Norwegian skate
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10508/9376; http://hdl.handle.net/10261/327139

This working document presents the results on the most significant elasmobranch species of the Porcupine Bank Spanish surveys in 2013. The main species in biomass terms in this survey were Galeus melastomus (blackmouth catshark), Deania calcea (birdbeak dogfish), Deania profundorum (arrowhead dogfis...