Demersal fishes caught with bottom gillnets and baited gears at 500-2800m on the continental slope off Nova Scotia, Canada

New data on the rare deep-sea skate Amblyraja jenseni (Rajidae) from the North Atlantic Ocean

“…Sub sequent records were also reported from the waters of the NWA (Bigelow and Schroeder, 1953;Tempelman, 1965;Leim and Scott, 1966;Moore et al, 2000;Alpoim et al, 2002;Coad and Reist, 2004;Sulak et al, 2009;Halliday et al, 2012;Kenchington et al, 2013, Vázquez et al, 2013. The northern extent of the range was reported to be the waters of Greenland (Karrer, 1976;Nielsen and Bertelsen, 1992;Møller et al, 2010) to 64°47′ N, and the southern extent of the range is off the coast of Maryland to 38°47′ N .…”

“…Likewise, the Jensen's skate was described from the waters of New England and Nova Scotia as Raja jenseni in the middle of the last century (Bigelow and Schroeder, 1950). Subsequently, it was marked by occasional captures in the waters of the Northwest Atlantic (NWA) (Bigelow and Schroeder, 1953;Tempelman, 1965;Leim and Scott, 1966;Moore et al, 2000;Alpoim et al, 2002;Coad and Reist, 2004;Sulak et al, 2009;Halliday et al, 2012;Kenchington et al, 2013, Vázquez et al, 2013, the waters around Greenland (Karrer, 1976;Nielsen and Bertelsen, 1992;Møller et al, 2010), the Northeast Atlantic (NEA), to the west of the British Isles Duncan, 1987, 1989;Quero et al, 1 The article is published in the original. 2 Materials of the paper were presented at the 16th annual scien tific conference of the European Elasmobranch Association (Milan, Italy, November 22-25, 2012). 2000; George and Zidowitz, 2006;Neat et al, 2008;Johnston et al, 2010;Séret, 2010;Silva et al, 2012) and the Mid Atlantic Ridge (MAR) Cousins et al, 2013).…”