Observations sur la ponte de la sardine du nord du golfe de gascogne et de la Manche

The various authors who studied the biology of the sardine in the Bay of Biscay are not very clear when dealing with its egg-laying, especially as far as the sardine from the North of the Bay and from the southern coast of Brittany is concerned. Since 1926, some observations [...] enabled us [...] to notice that even if the sardine reproduces on the Breton coast, its eggs are very rarely seen and in small quantities (the positive stations of the "Estafette" end of May 1928 and of the "Petrel", July 1929, provided some eggs identified as sardine eggs) in the coastal area (the area covered by our observations) cruised by sardine fishermen, during the drift-net sardine fishing period (April-June) but also the cod-roe fishing period (June to October).