Upgrading the LACM Larval Fish Resources

在过去的几十年里，对鱼类个体发育阶段——特别是早期生命阶段或浮游鱼——的照料、生长和使用的需求在规模和数量上都大大增加，这主要是因为鱼卵和鱼苗一直是解决渔业生物学、环境和生态分析中一些令人困惑的问题的核心。还有系统的研究。基于幼鱼的重要研究包括估算商业上重要鱼类的产卵生物量，分析敏感栖息地以评估生态和环境影响，以及研究鱼类的发育、关系和进化。该项目将支持在洛杉矶县自然历史博物馆建立和初步发展一个重要的新鱼苗储存库。具体目标是加入和编目已经确定的标本；确定几批积压的鱼苗；制定改进的鱼类幼体鉴定程序；并开始安装电脑收集管理系统。

The needs for care, growth and use of collections of the ontogenetic stages of fishes--especially the early life stages or ichthyoplankton--have increased enormously in caliber and magnitude over the past few decades, largely because fish eggs and larvae have been central to solving some of the perplexing problems in fisheries biology, environmental and ecological analyses, and systematic studies. Examples of important studies based on larval fishes include estimating the spawning biomass of commercially important fishes, analyzing sensitive habitats to assess ecological and environmental impacts, and studying the development, relationships and evolution of fishes. This project will support the establishment and initial development of a significant new larval fish depository at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Specific goals are to accession and catalog already identified specimens; to identify several backlog collections of fish larvae; to develop improved identification procedures for larval fishes; and to begin the installation of a computerized collection management system.