Remarques sur la sexualité de la sardine, clupea pilchardus walb.

During our studies on the biology of the sardine from the French Atlantic coast, over the 1929 fishery, we noticed some specificities in this fish's sexuality. In particular, we observed some differences between the male and female individuals from each of the studied batches. These differences are of the same order and show a constant character. Some sexual dimorphism facts tally with the fragmentary observations of L. Fage on the sardines from the entire French coast, Arné on the individuals caught South of the Gironde, and Le Gall on the celans from the English Channel. The observations we made can be used as a basis for a global study on the sexuality and the dimorphism in the sardine.