Fluctuations in the year classes of important food fishes
Fluctuations in the year classes of important food fishes
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重要食用鱼类年份等级的波动
DOI:
10.1093/icesjms/1.1.5
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发表时间:
1926
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
J. Hjort
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作者:
J. Hjort
From the earliest times a characteristic feature in all branches of the fishing industry has been the fluctuation of the respective yields from year to year. The history of the mackerel fishery of the United States, the sardine fishery of France, and all the important Norwegian fisheries gives a long series of demonstrations of great fluctuations in the yield of the catch and in the means of subsistence of the fishermen in these countries.For centuries these fluctuations have occupied the minds of the fishing population, and innumerable hypotheses and suggestions have been put forward by way of explanation. The earliest attempts at an explanation of the fluctuations in the fisheries naturally took as their starting point the fact that the fish were not always to be found in the coastal waters. These facts gave rise to the theory of migrations, and fantastic ideas about the extent and irregularity of such migrations have for centuries played a great part in the public discussion. The enormously increased knowledge of the sea, and of life in the sea, that has accumulated during the last fifty years—partly through the experience gained by the great oceanographic expeditions, and partly from the systematic biological investigations of fish and fisheries—have gradually changed the whole foundation of these theories of enormous migrations. Through the studies of the racial characters of the fish in different geographically defined areas, the understanding gained ground that the area of distribution of a certain species did not coincide with the area of migration of the individuals belonging to the species. In other words, that all the important species of fish were subdivided into a number of populations, which can be morphologically