Size at Maturity, Spawning Season, and Food of Atlantic Halibut
- 1 January 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
- Vol. 24 (1) , 53-66
- https://doi.org/10.1139/f67-006
Abstract
In otter-trawl catches of Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus L.) by research vessels from 1959 to 1964, mature males less than 66 to 70 cm long were not regularly encountered. Males were 96 to 100 cm long before the majority were mature, and females slightly longer. The research catches and commercial samples taken by longline from 1961 to 1963 indicated that spawning occurred at various times during the first half of the year. Halibut up to 30 cm long ate invertebrates; from 30 to 80 cm, invertebrates and fish; and over 80 cm, fish almost exclusively.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Movements of Halibut on the Nova Scotian and Grand BanksJournal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 1964
- On the Biology and Fishery of the Canadian Atlantic Halibut, Hippoglossus hippoglossus L.Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 1958