Species FAO code: QLH

Ammodytes marinus

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Commercial designations
Production methods and fishing gears
Conservation measures
Species distribution and habitat
Species description

Commercial designations

Country	Commercial designations	Names accepted or permitted locally or regionally
Denmark	da Havtobis	–
Portugal	pt Galeota	–

Main production methods

Caught

Main fishing gears

List item: Trawls

Trawls

Source: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. FishBase. Ammodytes marinus Raitt, 1934

TACs and quotas

Total allowable catches (TACs) or fishing opportunities, are catch limits (expressed in tonnes or numbers) that are set for most commercial fish stocks. TACs are set annually for most stocks (every two years for deep-sea stocks) by the Council of fisheries ministers. TACs are shared between EU countries in the form of national quotas. For each stock a different allocation percentage per EU country is applied for the sharing out of the quotas. Read more: TACs and quotas

Stocks (2021)

SAN/2A3A4

Ammodytes

Fishing areas

27.4 North Sea (Subarea IV) United Kingdom and Union waters - Excluding waters within six nautical miles of the UK baselines at Shetland, Fair Isle and Foula
27.3.a Skagerrak and Kattegat (Division IIIa) Union waters
27.2.a Norwegian Sea (Division IIa) United Kingdom waters

TAC

92500.0 t

Union

89966.0 t

132.0 t

86652.0 t

3182.0 t

Habitat

Saltwater
Brackish water

FAO major fishing areas

Source: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. FishBase. Ammodytes marinus Raitt, 1934

Scientific name

Ammodytes marinus

Author

Raitt, 1934

Rank

Species

FAO code

QLH

Morphological description

Scales absent from a median band anterior to the dorsal fin and from the musculature at the base of caudal fin. Belly scales loosely arranged, not in chevrons. Vertebrae 65-75. Margins of dorsal and anal fins straight with rays of equal length. Lateral line pores linearly arranged along the unbranched canals.

Taxonomic classification

ClassActinopterygii
- OrderPerciformes
  - FamilyAmmodytidae
    - GenusAmmodytes
      - SpeciesAmmodytes marinus

Source: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. FishBase. Ammodytes marinus Raitt, 1934

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Ammodytes marinus

Commercial designations

Main production methods

Main fishing gears

Trawls

TACs and quotas

Stocks (2021)

Habitat

FAO major fishing areas

Area 21 - Atlantic, Northwest

Area 27 - Atlantic, Northeast