Movements and growth of monkfish Lophius piscatorius tagged at the Shetland Islands, northeastern Atlantic

• Published in: Fisheries Research
• Main Authors: Laurenson, CH, Johnson, A, Priede, IG
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Lophius piscatorius; monkfish; white anglerfish; tagging; migration; movement; growth; Iceland
• Online Access: https://pure.uhi.ac.uk/en/publications/a84be46f-f74f-438d-9bf9-bf9ca3c84cf0; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2004.08.020

Movement and growth of Lophius piscatorius were investigated around the Shetland Islands, UK, in a tagging study when a total of 1768 trawl caught fish was tagged using conventional dart tags and released on inshore fishing grounds during the autumn of 2000 and the summer of 2001. This is the first...