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Data on the occurrence, spatial-bathymetric distribution, and size composition of skilfish Erilepis zonifer are given on the basis of the materials collected at the long-line catches on the Emperor Ridge seamounts. This fish is a large representative of fam. Anoplopomatidae (maximal length 188 cm; weight 88.5 kg). From June to July 2009, the species was found on all five sampled underwater mountains (Nintoku, Jingu, Ojin, Koko, Northern Koko). The fish was found within the depth range 370–1040 m. The initial biomass of skilfish at the studied seamounts calculated by the Leslie method is approximately 203.5 tons. The structure of the range and possible ways of the dispersion of this species in the waters of the continental slope of the North-Pacific rim are discussed.
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Original Russian Text © O.G. Zolotov, I.Yu. Spirin, S.M. Zudina, 2014, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2014, Vol. 54, No. 3, pp. 288–302.
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Zolotov, O.G., Spirin, I.Y. & Zudina, S.M. New data on the range, biology, and abundance of skilfish Erilepis zonifer (Anoplopomatidae). J. Ichthyol. 54, 251–265 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945214020131
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