Little information has been published regarding the American plaice, Hippoglossoides platessoides platessoides (Fabricius), a subarctic species which is distributed from Cape Cod to Labrador. In recent years plaice has risen rapidy in commercial importance in eastern Canada. In 1940 only 3 million lb were landed compared to a total of more than 74 million lb in 1960. American plaice in 1961 made up 64 per cent by weight of the total Canadian flounder landings, excluding halibut. [...]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.116615 |
| Date | January 1964 |
| Creators | Powles, Percival Mount. |
| Contributors | Dunbar, M. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy. (Department of Zoology. ) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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