Age, size and vertebral calcification in the basking shark, Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus)

• Main Authors: Parker, H.W., Stott, F.C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1965
• Subjects: 42.81; The Shoals; Cetorhinus maximus
• Online Access: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318027; http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/149313

ABSTRACT The inshore shoals of basking sharks that appear in spring off the western seabord of Europe have been variously claimed to be part of a seasonal south to north migration, or local, perhaps nuptial, aggregations. The decline in the catches of the Achill Island Fishery in the last decade sug...