p. 175 - 197 OBSERVATIONS ON FISHING IN MIDDLE-EAST ATLANTIC IN 1967 Stefan Parcalaboiu Institut Roumain de Recherches Marines Constantza Abstract The paper presents the research carried out on board trawler "Constanta" in 1967, in the continental shelf fishing area of the middle-east Atlantic, between parallels 26 grade 00'N and 13 grade 00'N, depths ranging from 80 to 200 m. Research was particularly concerned with: variations in environment conditions, species of fish caught, elemnts which characteize the population of the main species of fishes and productivity of bottomtrawling.