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Bass populations and movements on the west coast of the U.K.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Donovan Kelley
Donovan Kelley
Affiliation:
Old Farm, Trebetherick, Wadebridge, Cornwall
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A bass tagging project on the south coast of Anglesey, 1971–5, yielded 86 recoveries from 912 taggings. In addition to expected local movements a systematic pattern of seasonal migration was identified for adults. Fish present in summer moved to south Cornwall for the winter, returning in succeeding summers for spawning. Departure was normally before mid-October. Fish present after that had summered further north (reaching Furness in warm summers). These too moved south as winter advanced, though possibly not reaching Cornwall. A few solitary fish – unfit specimens or members of weak year-classes – appeared to remain through the winter. No evidence was found of movement to, or intermingling with stocks of, the Irish coast; nor, with one exception, the mainland coast of Europe. There was also no indication of movement eastward along the south coast: suggesting discrete populations there from those on the west coast.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 59 , Issue 4 , November 1979 , pp. 889 - 936
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1979

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