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The abnormal development of plaice embryos and larvae in marine aquaria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. E. Shelbourne
Affiliation:
Fisheries Laboratory, Lowestoft

Extract

We know that a mature female plaice can liberate many thousands of eggs into the sea during the spring spawning season in the southern North Sea (Simpson, 1951). We also know that a very small percentage indeed of these eggs develops into fish of marketable size. At all stages in its life history a plaice is con-fronted with environmental hazards, which, if not overcome, may have fatal consequences.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1956

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