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(5) Novaya Zemlya shallow with separate patches of biomass exceeding 

 500 g/m 2 . 



In many parts of the shores of the Murman Peninsula, Novaya Zemlya and 

 the Arctic archipelagoes, in inlets, gubas and fjords patches with very much 



Fig. 51. Distribution of benthos biomass of Barents Sea (g/m 2 ) (Brotzkaya and 

 Zenkevitch with additions by Filatova). 



increased biomass are found. Thus in the inner parts of Sturfjord the average 

 biomass reaches 500 g/m 2 , in Mashigina Guba it exceeds 3 kg/m 2 , and 

 on some patches in the Kola Inlet and Motovsky Bay it exceeds 200 g/m 2 . 

 In general a certain increase of the biomass is observed in shallow regions, 

 partly on the shores, partly at the edges of banks. Moreover the benthos biomass 

 of the large and deep bays like the Kola Inlet, Motovsky Bay and Cheshskaya 

 Inlet is smaller in their central parts when the aeration of the bottom layer is 



