Download or read book Determination of Growth in Bony Fishes from Otolith Microstructure written by Beatriz Morales-Nin and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fish ageing methods based on growth increments in oroliths are described in detail. A short introduction describes otolith extraction, preparation and viewing techniques, emphasizing the study of microscopic daily growth increments. Light and scanning electron microscope viewing methods and criteria for interpretation are described. The need to test the findings is explained and age validation techniques described.
Download or read book Determination Of Growth In Bony Fishes From Otolith Microstructure FTP 322 written by Beatriz Morales Nin and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fisheries management requires accurate data on fish growth rates, and this book presents the latest techniques for obtaining it. Morales-Nin explains how to use otolith microstructure to determine age and growth patterns of bony fish species, offering detailed examples from a variety of fish types. This book is an invaluable resource for fisheries biologists, as well as anyone interested in the science of fish growth. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Determination of Growth in Bony Fishes from Otolith Microstructure FTP 322 written by Beatriz Morales Nin and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Download or read book Otolith Microstructure Examination and Analysis written by David K. Stevenson and published by McClain Printing Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of otolith microstructure research has experienced phenomenal growth since the early 1970s and now forms the basis for hundreds of studies in early life history, age, growth, recruitment, migration, mortality and stock structure. This book represents the first effort to compile and summarize the many techniques and procedures associated with studies of otolith microstructure. The complete sequence of events, from sample collection to data analysis, is covered comprehensively, so as to be applicable to most species and situations. The various chapters include both published and unpublished procedures.
Download or read book An Ear for Records written by Danswell Starrs and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biological and environmental processes that influence the survival and fitness of individuals during their early life history phases can have implications for population structure and function. Historically, tracking early life history phase fishes has been problematic, due to their small size and fragility. Fortuitously, the earstones (otoliths) of bony fishes possess a suite of structural and chemical properties that can be analysed or exploited as a vector for chemical marking, to provide chronologically explicit information on the intrinsic biology and movement history of early life history phase fishes. In this thesis, I explore whether maternal injections of enriched stable barium and strontium isotopes are transmitted from an adult female Eastern rainbowfish Melanotaenia splendida to her offspring's otoliths, to provide a means of mass-marking larvae (transgenerational marking). I found that otoliths from larvae spawned by a female 6 months post-injection are marked. I conclude that transgenerational marking holds great promise for examining natal dispersal of rainbowfish in tropical stream networks. To examine if mixing two enriched stable isotopes can produce a third unique marker and whether transgenerational marking impacts upon larvae growth, survival or morphology, I use the tropical freshwater purple-spotted gudgeon Mogurnda adspersa as a model species. I found that I could produce a third distinguishable batch marker, and that transgenerational marking has no impacts on larvae survival or growth. A meta-analysis combining these results and previously published studies revealed that the impacts of transgenerational marking are non-significant, with the exception of negative growth effects in marine fishes injected with enriched barium isotopes. I conclude that transgenerational marking is rapidly coming of age and awaits wide-scale application. If transgenerational marking can facilitate the fine-scale tracking of individuals through space and time, can otolith microstructure reveal the growth history? I examine if the daily otolith increment widths of larval purple-spotted gudgeon otoliths accurately reflect the growth of larvae reared under variable but controlled environmental conditions. I found that backcalculation of growth using daily otolith increment widths was accurate under all situations except for during periods of food shortage and high temperature. This work suggests that backcalculation of growth using otoliths is a potent source of biological information, but must be applied cautiously. Otolith microstructure and chemistry can reveal the intrinsic biology and habitat use of individuals, respectively, but to what degree have these techniques been applied simultaneously? I performed a systematic review of 476 recent studies (2005-2012) employing otolith-based research to study the early life history ecology of fishes. I found that there is a clear split between studies focussed on biological objectives, which employ otolith microstructure analyses, and those studies exploring spatial objectives, with otolith chemistry analyses. A small number of studies (5%) utilise both the chemical and structural properties of otoliths to explore both biological and spatial objectives simultaneously. I contend that an integrated approach to otolith-based research exploiting both the biological and spatial information within otoliths should be a priority for future studies exploring the early life history mysteries of freshwater fishes.
Download or read book Tropical Fish Otoliths Information for Assessment Management and Ecology written by Bridget S. Green and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-08-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Techniques and theory for processing otoliths from tropical marine fish have developed only recently due to an historic misconception that these organisms could not be aged. Otoliths are the most commonly used structures from which daily, seasonal or annual records of a fish’s environmental history are inferred, and are also used as indicators of migration patterns, home range, spatial distribution, stock structure and life history events. A large proportion of projects undertaken on tropical marine organisms involve removal and processing of calcified structures such as otoliths, statoliths or vertebrae to retrieve biological, biochemical or genetic information. Current techniques and principles have evolved rapidly and are under constant modification and these differ among laboratories, and more particularly among species and within life history stages. Tropical fish otoliths: Information for assessment, management and ecology is a comprehensive description of the current status of knowledge about otoliths in the tropics. This book has contributions from leading experts in the field, encompassing a tropical perspective on daily and annual ageing in fish and invertebrates, microchemistry, interpreting otolith microstructure and using it to back-calculate life history events, and includes a treatise on the significance of validating periodicity in otoliths.
Download or read book Recent Developments in Fish Otolith Research written by David H. Secor and published by University of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hakes written by Hugo Arancibia and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The species of hake, making up the genus Merluccius, are commercially important and currently largely over exploited, with many stocks badly depleted and showing only limited signs of recovery. From the end of the 1990s, concepts such as sustainability, ecosystem-based approaches to fisheries management, a code for the responsible conduct for fisheries, governance and others have emerged or have been considered by politicians, stakeholders and society. Moreover, new tools for stock assessment have been developed. But many hake stocks of the genus Merluccius show no sign of restoration. Hakes: Biology and Exploitation brings together a wealth of important information on the biology and exploitation of hake and hoki stocks around the world. Each chapter provides an overview of the fisheries of each species in an ecological and environmental context, looking at stock distribution, characteristics of the environment, life history, reproduction, diet, growth, mortality, pricing and markets of each geographical region and the hake species found there. With chapters written by regional experts on hake species and included within Wiley-Blackwell’s prestigious Fish and Aquatic Resources Series, Hakes: Biology and Exploitation provides up-to-date and comparative information, including new approaches to fisheries management, for all those involved in fisheries management, aquatic ecology and biological sciences.
Download or read book The Biological Bases for Reef Fishery Management written by Gene R. Huntsman and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of a workshop on reef fishery management held October 7-10, 1980 at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands of the United States.
Download or read book Amazoniana written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Age Determination and Growth in Fish and Other Aquatic Animals written by David C. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CIESM Congress Proceedings written by International Commission for the Scientific Exploration of the Mediterranean Sea. Congress and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A guide to the eggs and larvae of 100 common Western Mediterranean Sea bony fish species written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide presents the egg and larval descriptions of 100 species of fishes belonging to 55 families, which are most likely to be present in plankton samples collected in the continental shelf and oceanic waters of the Western Mediterranean Sea. The guide is structured in two parts. The first introductory part describes the different applications of ichthyoplankton studies in fisheries research, the main sampling strategies, methods and gears, the early life history of fishes and how to identify them. A brief historical account of ichthyoplankton identification studies in the Mediterranean Sea is also provided. The second part of the guide contains the identification sheets of the species. Each species sheet includes the following information: illustration of the adult fish and information on its habitat and spawning season; description of the main features useful towards identifying the egg, yolk sac and larval stage of each fish species; illustrations and (when available) photos of the different life stages.
Download or read book Photographic Atlas of Fish Otoliths of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean written by Steven E. Campana and published by NRC Research Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This photographic atlas presents light and (or) scanning electron micrographs of 580 pairs of sagittal otoliths representing 288 species, 97 families, and 27 orders of fish from the northwest Atlantic. For most species, multiple individuals across a range of sizes are presented in order to highlight changes in otolith shape with increased size. For 72 of the families, photographs of the lapillar and asteriscal otoliths are also presented.
Download or read book Stock Assessment written by Vincent F. Gallucci and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stock Assessment: Quantitative Methods and Applications for Small Scale Fisheries is a book about stock assessment as it is practiced. It focuses on applications for small scale or artisanal fisheries in developing countries, however it is not limited in applicability to tropical waters and should also be considered a resource for students of temperate fishery management problems. It incorporates a careful sample design, various mathematical models as a basis for predicting consequences for stock exploitation, and discusses the impact of exploitation on non-targeted species. This was a unique concept involving a collaborative effort between U.S. and host country scientists to address issues of regional and global concern through innovative research. Unlike other books on stock assessment that show mathematical models, this is the only book of its kind that discusses how an assessment is carried out. It looks at the field as a whole and includes sampling, age determination and acoustics. The book represents the culmination of a nine-year program financed by the United States Agency for International Development to provide new or improved methods of stock assessment for artisanal fisheries.
Download or read book Age Determination Manual of the Alaska Fisheries Science Center Age and Growth Program written by Mary Elizabeth Matta and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age and Growth Program at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center is tasked with providing age data in order to improve the basic understanding of the ecology and fisheries dynamics of Alaskan fish species. The primary focus of the Age and Growth Program is to estimate ages from otoliths and other calcified structures for age-structured modeling of commercially exploited stocks; however, the program has recently expanded its interests to include numerous studies on topics ranging from age estimate validation to the growth and life-history of non-target species. Because so many applications rely upon age data and particularly upon assurances as to their accuracy and precision, the Age and Growth Program has developed this practical guide to document the age determination of key groundfish species from Alaskan waters. The main objective of this manual is to describe techniques specific to the age determination of commercially and ecologically important species studied by the Age and Growth Program. The manual also provides general background information on otolith morphology, dissection, and preparation, as well as descriptions of methods used to measure precision and accuracy of age estimates. This manual is intended not only as a reference for age readers at the AFSC and other laboratories, but also to give insight into the quality of age estimates to scientists who routinely use such data.
Download or read book Naga written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
