Growth Studies on North Sea Herring II. 0-Group Growth of East Anglian Herring
Growth Studies on North Sea Herring II. 0-Group Growth of East Anglian Herring
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北海鲱鱼的生长研究 II。
DOI:
10.1093/icesjms/32.1.98
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发表时间:
1968
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
T. Iles
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作者:
T. Iles
The analysis of the variation inl1estimates between successive samples, that is as a year-class re-appears each year in the seasonal East Anglian fishery, besides making possible the estimation of the degree of recruitment results in precise comparative estimates of first-year growth. The marked changes and fluctuations in 0-group growth do not necessarily parallel those found for I-group (and older) fish when the same years of growth are compared; it must be assumed that this reflects the discontinuity which occurs in habitat preference, behaviour and ecology between the inshore juvenile stages and the subsequent phases of the life history.A significant decline in 0-group growth during the early 1940s, when the unfished adult stock increased in abundance, suggests that density-dependent factors were operating. This hypothesis receives some quantitative support from data on larval abundance and on the relative abundance of sprat year-classes over the latter part of the period under review, and implies that density dependence is an integral feature of 0-group growth. A hypothesis such as this is difficult to prove because of the problem of separating the effects of density dependence and of environmental factors, but a link between growth rate and survival of very young fish could be generated in a density-dependent relationship.