Migration pattern of Atlantic wolffish (Anarhichas lupus L.) in Iceland using Data Storage Tags ...

• Main Authors: Gunnarsson, Ásgeir, Guðbjörnsson, Sigmar, Þorsteinsson, Vilhjálmur, Pampoulie, Christophe
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: ASC 2013 - Theme session O 2024
• Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture; Technologies and data; Iceland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.24753906.v1; https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/Migration_pattern_of_Atlantic_wolffish_Anarhichas_lupus_L_in_Iceland_using_Data_Storage_Tags/24753906/1

No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author. From 1966 to 1975 the Marine Institute in Reykjavik (MRI) tagged nearly 13,000 Atlantic wolffish with athena tags. The results demonstrated the location of the main spawning area and patterns of feeding migration of Atlantic wolffish at West Iceland (Fig. 1). In August the Atlantic wolffish migrate from its feeding grounds to deeper water where its spawning grounds are located and in January it migrates back to its shallow-water feeding grounds (Jónsson, 1982). ...