Notes on fauna associated with an opportunistic artificial reef near cold-water...

• Author(s): Gomes-Pereira, José N. ; Tempera, Fernando ; Ribeiro, P. A. ; Porteiro, Filipe M.
• Date: 2012
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/1443
• Origin: Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
• Subject(s): Biofouling Macroorganisms; Deepwater Fish
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

This short communication provides a sporadic insight on the importance of a hard three-dimensional structure for deepwater fish near CWC. Fish size and behaviour inside the structure and in the surrounding area are described. Additionally, a list of biofouling macroorganisms found on the structure after one year of deployment is presented.