Characterization of the pelagic fish community of the north‐western and northern Spanish shelf waters^a

This study demonstrates the utility of trawl data, collected during acoustic surveys of pelagic fish stocks as a way of confirming fish identification, to characterize the pelagic community, as well as allowing description and prediction of fish distribution patterns, based on data from Spanish Atlantic Ocean shelf surveys during spring 2005–2011. The composition of the pelagic community is described, as well as spatial and temporal patterns of...