Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-45l2p Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-28T02:37:38.793Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Observations on the ormer population of Guernsey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

G. R. Forster
Affiliation:
The Plymouth Laboratory

Extract

The results of a short investigation of the population of ormers (Haliotis tuberculata) are described and discussed. The average number of ormers found by diving between 0–5 fm. below low tide was 2·4 per m2. The catches were measured, but no separation of year-groups was found.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1962

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Brehant, R. N., 1958. Report of Zoology Section. Trans. Soc. guernes., 1958, p.325.Google Scholar
Cox, K., 1960. Review of the Abalone of California. Calif. Fish Game, Vol. 46, no. 4 pp. 381406.Google Scholar
Crofts, D. R., 1926. Haliotis. L.M.B.C. Memoirs, no. 29, 174 pp.Google Scholar
Crofts, D. R. 1937. Development of Haliotis. Phil. Trans. B, Vol. 228, pp. 219268.Google Scholar
Stephenson, T. A., 1924. Notes on Haliotis tuberculata L. J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K., Vol. 13, pp. 480–95.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tanner, F. L., 1926. Report of the Marine Zoological Section. Trans. Soc. guernes., 1926, pp. 2934.Google Scholar