What Limits Clupeoid Production

Autor: Reuben Lasker
Rok vydání: 1985
Předmět:
Zdroj: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 42:s31-s38
ISSN: 1205-7533
0706-652X
DOI: 10.1139/f85-260
Popis: This review paper explores a number of hypotheses on the control of clupeoid populations. The following are discussed: the effect of fishing; egg mortality (predation); larval mortality (the critical period) with a consideration of starvation and predation and the biotic and abiotic factors that may be involved; larval transport and the oceanographic features that cause it; variable egg production; interspecific competition; and the effect of localized (e.g. storms and upwellings) and widespread (El Niño) oceanographic events. A review of the paleosedimentary record is also given showing the magnitude of natural fluctuations when no fishing occurred. Recent resurgences in clupeoid populations are reviewed and suggested causes are analyzed.
Databáze: OpenAIRE