Rapporten er også publisert som artikkel i Fiskets Gang,60(13),1974:257-261A joint investigation on the distribution of adult capelin was carried out in November-December 1973 by the Norwegian
research vessel «G. O. Sars» and the Soviet Union research
vessels «Poisk» and "Akademik Knipovich".
Adult capelin was found mainly distributed between 71ºN
and 76ºN and between 38ºE and 48ºE and occurred predominantly
as scattered registrations with the larger part close to
the bottom. This made the conditions for an acoustic abundance
estimate unfavourable, and probably only part of the adult
capelin present in the area was recorded.
The bottom registrations of adult capelin occurred in water
with temperatures between -l and 0ºC while the pelagic
concentrations of adult capelin were found mainly in temperatures
between 0.5 and 2.0ºC. Most of the adult capelin were in the prespawning stage and consisted mainly of the 1970 year-class with some admixture
of the 1969 year-class.
The majority of the adult fish had a length between 15.0 and 17.5 c
