Publication Abstract

Observations on coastal fish fauna during a spring bloom of Phaeocystis pouchetti (hariot) in the eastern Irish Sea

S.I. Rogers and S.J. Lockwood

Unusually high densities of juvenile flatfish in some areas of a nursery ground, and complete absences from other areas, were associated with a dense bloom of the colonial alga Phaeocystis pouchetii along the coast of North Wales. A possible explanation for these movements, and for the presence of patches of anoxic sediments, is proposed.

Reference:

S.I. Rogers and S.J. Lockwood (1990) Observations on coastal fish fauna during a spring bloom of Phaeocystis pouchetti (hariot) in the eastern Irish Sea. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK, 70: 249-253.