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Specific features and dynamics of catches of twoline eelpout Bothrocara brunneum (Zoarcidae) in pacific waters near Kuril Islands and Kamchatka

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We provide data on the occurrence, spatial-bathymetric distribution, and size composition of twoline eelpout Bothrocara brunneum and species accompanying it in catches in Pacific waters of the northern Kuril Islands and southeastern Kamchatka. This comparatively numerous and relatively large representative of the fam. Zoarcidae (maximum length of 74 cm, body weight 2.98 kg) in the study period (1992–2002) was found everywhere at depths 198 to 824 m at the near-bottom temperatures of 0.5–4.2°C. However, its maximum by density concentrations with catches to 150–160 kg per hour of trawling were constantly recorded on the beam of the Fourth Kuril Strait and at a site southward of it in two ranges of depths-400–600 and 700–800 m at near-bottom values of temperature 2.1–3.0°C. The ratio between the depth of catches and sizes of the twoline eelpout was analyzed. It was shown that the amount of its catches in Pacific waters of the northern Kuril Islands and southeastern Kamchatka is subject to some interannual, seasonal, and diurnal dynamics.

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  2. Kamchatka Branch of Pacific Institute of Geography, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Partizanskaya 6, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii, 683000, Russia

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Original Russian Text © A.M. Orlov, A.M. Tokranov, 2012, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2012, Vol. 52, No. 5, pp. 538–552.

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Orlov, A.M., Tokranov, A.M. Specific features and dynamics of catches of twoline eelpout Bothrocara brunneum (Zoarcidae) in pacific waters near Kuril Islands and Kamchatka. J. Ichthyol. 52, 505–518 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945212050049

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