Abstract
Russian investigations of the deep-water species of the Atlantic commenced in 1963 and have continued to 1993. The first investigations were carried out by fishing vessels and research vessels on Greenland halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides) in the Barents Sea, and then on witch flounder (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus), in the western Atlantic. In 1967–68 a commercial fishery for roundnose grenadier (Coryphaenoides rupestris) and Greenland halibut started on the slope in the north west Atlantic. At this time there was also a fishery at Iceland for Greenland halibut. Since 1973 Russian vessels have been fishing on the ridges and underwater rises in the open areas of the North Atlantic for a variety of deep-water species.
On these cruises the environmental conditions of temperature and salinity were recorded together with the biological data and bathometric and hydrographic information down to 2000 m. depth. Biological sampling was done with both mid-water trawls, bottom trawls, longlines and traps. Fish behaviour patterns and distribution have been studied using a manned submersible vehicle.
Some of the results of these surveys are given together with estimates of the commercial catches between 1967 and 1991. In the peak year of 1971, 82, 000 tonnes of roundnose grenadier were caught. The paper also makes some estimates of the biomass and suggests possible commercial catch levels of the main species of marketable value, which can be caught in the north east Atlantic outside of the economic zones of the coastal states
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Troyanovsky, F.M., Lisovsky, S.F. (1995). Russian (USSR) Fisheries Research in Deep Waters (Below 500 m.) in the North Atlantic. In: Hopper, A.G. (eds) Deep-Water Fisheries of the North Atlantic Oceanic Slope. NATO ASI Series, vol 296. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8414-2_16
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