In situ observations of a possible skate nursery off the western Antarctic Peninsula
M O Amsler1, K E Smith2, J B McClintock1
1Department of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, U.S.A.
Journal of Fish Biology
|April 23, 2015
Abstract:
A dense aggregation of skate egg cases was imaged during a photographic survey of the sea floor along the western Antarctic Peninsula in November 2013. Egg cases were noted in a narrow band between 394 and 443 m depth. Although some skate species in other oceans are known to utilize restricted areas to deposit eggs in great numbers, such nurseries have not been described in the Southern Ocean.


