National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington, New Zealand.
CSIRO National Research Collections Australia-Australian National Fish Collection, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
J Fish Biol. 2024 May;104(5):1645-1650. doi: 10.1111/jfb.15688. Epub 2024 Feb 25.
Areas of importance to Southern Ocean skates are poorly defined. Here, we identify a deepwater skate egg case nursery in a discrete location at ~460 m depth off Cape Adare in the Southern Ocean. This is the first confirmed observation of a skate nursery area in the Ross Sea and only the second observation for the Southern Ocean. The morphology and size of the egg cases were consistent with the genus Bathyraja and most likely belong to the Bathyraja sp. (cf. eatonii). The nursery occurs within the "no take" General Protection Zone of the Ross Sea region marine protected area, where commercial fishing is prohibited.
南方海洋鳐鱼的重要区域尚未得到明确界定。在这里，我们在南大洋阿德雷角附近约 460 米深处的一个离散位置发现了一个深水鳐鱼卵鞘育幼场。这是罗斯海首次确认的鳐鱼育幼场区域，也是南大洋的第二次观察结果。卵鞘的形态和大小与 Bathyraja 属一致，很可能属于 Bathyraja sp.（cf. eatonii）。该育幼场位于罗斯海地区海洋保护区的“无捕捞”全面保护区内，商业捕鱼在此被禁止。
