Opmerkelijk percentage partieel albino tong Solea solea

On the 1st of April 2005 we accompanied a professional fisherman fishing in Belgian coastal waters. A remarkable observation was that a high percentage (at least 1%) of Dover Sole Solea solea in the catch (which could not be systematically investigated) was virtually albino. Only around the head of the dorsal (or right) side a small patch of normally pigmented skin was present. These animals were adults, and seemed healthy. It is possible that these conspicuous Dover soles, with the current low stock of cod (a predator of amongst other young flatfish) in the southern North Sea, can survive up... Mehr ...