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Freeze-Branding of flatfish: flounder, Platichthys flesus, and plaice, Pleuronectes platessa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

P. R. Dando
Affiliation:
The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth
R. Ling
Affiliation:
The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth

Extract

The use of freeze-branding as a field-marking technique for flatfish is described. Similar recapture rates were obtained for flounders marked on the coloured, or eyed, side and for those marked on the white, or blind, side during the first two years after marking. Brands on adult flounders were still identifiable more than four years after release of the fish. The branding technique is also applicable to plaice.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1980

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