A preliminary study on the cuttlefish catches from the Wadge Bank trawler fishery

Although much work has been done on the evaluation of the Wadge Bank fishery data, no detailed study has been made in the past on the analysis of cuttlefish catches. In this paper an attempt has been made to analyse this data in order to gather a preliminary knowledge of seasonal and annual variation in the availability, distribution by depth and catches in relation to the time of the day