Selective Tidal Transport of North Sea Plaice Larvae Pleuronectes platessa in Coastal Nursery Areas

1985 ◽  
Vol 114 (4) ◽  
pp. 461-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. D. Rijnsdorp ◽  
M. Van Stralen ◽  
H. W. Van Der Veer
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Nursery Areas ◽  
Pleuronectes Platessa ◽  
Tidal Transport

Otolith increments in European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) reveal temperature and density-dependent effects on growth

2018 ◽  
Vol 75 (5) ◽  
pp. 1655-1663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter van der Sleen ◽  
Christoph Stransky ◽  
John R Morrongiello ◽  
Holger Haslob ◽  
Melita Peharda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
North Sea ◽  
Bottom Temperature ◽  
Growth Data ◽  
Mixed Effect ◽  
Pleuronectes Platessa ◽  
Growing Season Length ◽  
The North ◽  
Growth Variation ◽  
The North Sea

Abstract European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) is a commercially important flatfish species in the North Sea. Yet, the environmental factors that affect the growth of plaice remain unresolved. Here we examine the drivers of plaice growth variation by using a large archive of otoliths from female plaice collected in the northeastern part of the North Sea from 1993 to 2015, providing growth data over the period 1985–2014. We developed a series of increasingly complex mixed-effect models to explore intrinsic (within individual) and extrinsic (environmental factors: bottom temperature and plaice density) sources of growth variation. We analysed juvenile (0 and 1 year) and (sub)adult (≥2 years) growth separately due to different habitat utilization across life stages. Juvenile growth was positively correlated with bottom temperature, whereas growth of adults was negatively correlated with bottom temperature. Correlations for both were strongest during autumn (September to October). For juveniles, the temperature–growth relationship likely reflects a response to growing season length while for adults it could reflect temperature-dependent changes to metabolic rate or food availability. For both juveniles and adults, we also found inverse relationship between population density and growth. We suggest that the approach used in this study can find a much wider application in European waters.

Growth dynamics of European plaice Pleuronectes platessa L. in nursery areas: A review

2014 ◽  
Vol 90 ◽  
pp. 64-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin J. Ciotti ◽  
Timothy E. Targett ◽  
Richard D.M. Nash ◽  
Audrey J. Geffen
Keyword(s):  
Growth Dynamics ◽  
Nursery Areas ◽  
Pleuronectes Platessa
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