Age and Growth of Antarctic Fishes

鱼类是南极海洋群落的主要组成部分。了解它们的年龄和生长情况对了解生态系统的结构和功能至关重要。这个对Targett博士的补充奖励提供了一个独特的机会来增加生长的一个方面的信息：摄食活动、温度和光周期之间的关系。在南极收集的30条鱼被运往特拉华州，在那里进行了16个月的生长实验。这是第一批成功运往美国实验室的鱼。在特拉华州的实验室实验中，温度控制的精度优于南极。研究将集中在冬季和夏季期间观察到的摄食率、摄食量和生长效率的变化。建议使用Support。

Fish are a major component of the antarctic marine community. Knowledge of their age and growth is essential to the understanding of the structure and functions of the ecosystem. This supplemental award to Dr. Targett presents a unique opportunity to increase information on one aspect of growth: the relationship among feeding activity, temperature, and photoperiod. Thirty fish collected in the antarctic were transported to Delaware, where growth experiments have been carried out for sixteen months. These are the first fish successfully transported to a U.S. laboratory. The precision of temperature control during laboratory experimentation available in Delaware is superior to that available in the antarctic. Research will focus on the variation in feeding rate, feeding magnitude and changes in growth efficiency observed between winter and summer. Support is recommended.