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Bering wolffish Anarhichas orientalis (Anarhichadidae) off the coasts of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands

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According to long-term materials (1978–2012) of bottom and pelagic trawl surveys, the distribution and some features of biology of pelagic juveniles and adult individuals of Bering wolffish Anarhichas orientalis off the coasts of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands are considered. Maximum sizes and age of wolffish are 113 cm, 10.8 kg, and 14 years. It is shown that the seasonal dynamics of distribution and numbers of pelagic juveniles off the Sea of Okhotsk coasts of southern Sakhalin is closely related to the regime of water warming. It is suggested that considerable variability of size-weight indices of juveniles at the beginning of summer is determined by extension of the dates of spawning of wolffish off the coasts of Sakhalin and the presence of fish from other areas of reproduction. Data on feeding of different size groups of wolffish fingerlings are presented.

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    A. O. Shubin, D. R. Faizulin, I. A. Atamanova, L. N. Baranchuk-Chervonnyi & V. V. Gulyaev

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Original Russian Text © A.O. Shubin, D.R. Faizulin, I.A. Atamanova, L.N. Baranchuk-Chervonnyi, V.V. Gulyaev, 2014, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2014, Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 690–703.

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Shubin, A.O., Faizulin, D.R., Atamanova, I.A. et al. Bering wolffish Anarhichas orientalis (Anarhichadidae) off the coasts of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. J. Ichthyol. 54, 678–691 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945214050105

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