SAMPLING ANCHOVY LARVAE WITH A PLANKTON PURSE SEINE
SAMPLING ANCHOVY LARVAE WITH A PLANKTON PURSE SEINE
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使用浮游生物围网对凤尾鱼幼虫进行取样
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发表时间:
1972
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通讯作者:
R. I. Clutter
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作者:
G. I. Murphy;R. I. Clutter
A miniature purse seine (100 ft by 21 ft) was constructed of :{33 J1. Nitex. It was used in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, together with a 1-m plankton net constructed of the same ma terial in order to evaluate the sampling efficiency of the towed plankton net on anchovy larvae (Stolephorus purpureus). The results show that during the day, the purse seine is at least an order of magnitude more efficient for larvae over 5.5 mm in length. The largest larva caught by the plankton net was 14.5 mm and by the purse seine 29.5 mm. At night the plankton net was relatively more effective than during the day, catching about 60% as many larvae as the purse seine over the interval 3.5-19.5 mm. The maximum size taken increased to 21.5 mm, but the maximum taken by the purse seine increased to 50 mm. An attempt was made to rationalize the difference between the day plankton net and purse seine catches by a geometric model involving alarm distance and larval swimming speed. The results are moderately satisfactory. More limited data on anchovy larvae catches by a 10-ft Isaacs-Kidd trawl, '/4-m, 'h-m, and 1-m plankton nets are presented and discussed in the framework of the meter net purse seine data. These analyses suggest one or more paradoxes in the larval escape problem, or that the data are inadequate. The classical approach to sampling zooplankton is the towed net. This has two disadvantages: an unknown fraction of the organisms in the path of the net escape by dodging and the net integrates the organisms living along a transect of considerable length-making it difficult to consider the catch from a tow as representing an assemblage of coexisting organisms. The dodging problem has been considered by (among others) Fleminger and Clutter (1965) with re spect to planktonic crustacea, Ahlstrom (1954) and Isaacs (1965) with respect to fish larvae, and McGowan and Fraundorf (1966) with respect to zooplankton. A general review of the prob lem is given in UNESCO (1968). In recent years there have been attempts to apply community theory to the pelagic realms, e.g., Fager and McGowan (1963) and Venrick