DISTRIBUTION, BIOLOGY AND POPULATION STATUS OF BENTO-PELAGIC FISH SPECIES IN THE AREA OF THE SEA CHANNEL OF CARGO TRANSPORTATION IN THE NORTH-EAST CASPIAN

Abstract. There is increasing demand for information on predator-prey interactions in the ocean as a result of legislative commitments aimed at achieving sustainable exploitation. However, comprehensive datasets are lacking for many fish species and this has hampered development of multispecies fisheries models and the formulation of effective food-web indicators. This work describes a new compilation of stomach content data for five pelagic fish species (herring, blue whiting, mackerel, albacore and bluefin tuna) sampled across the northeast Atlantic and submitted to the PANGAEA open-access data portal (www.pangaea.de). We provide detailed descriptions of sample origin and of the corresponding database structures. We describe the main results in terms of diet composition and predator–prey relationships. The feeding preferences of small pelagic fish (herring, blue whiting, mackerel) were sampled over a very broad geographic area within the North Atlantic basin, from Greenland in the west, to the Lofoten Islands in the east and from the Bay of Biscay northwards to the Arctic. This analysis revealed significant differences in the prey items selected in different parts of the region at different times of year. Tunas (albacore and bluefin) were sampled in the Bay of Biscay and Celtic Sea. Dominant prey items for these species varied by location, year and season. This data compilation exercise represents one of the largest and most wide-ranging ever attempted for pelagic fish in the north Atlantic. The earliest data included in the database were collected in 1864, whereas the most recent were collected in 2012.Datasets are available at doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.820041 and doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.826992.

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Possibilities of laser location for remote monitoring of marine organisms (analytic review)

Izvestiya TINRO ◽

10.26428/1606-9919-2014-176-27-33 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 176 (1) ◽

pp. 261-287

Author(s):

Valery I. Kudryavtsev

Keyword(s):

Fish Species ◽

Wave Length ◽

Gulf Of Alaska ◽

Airborne Lidar ◽

Norwegian Sea ◽

North West ◽

Fish Schools ◽

North East ◽

The North ◽

Analytic Review

Possibilities of lidar detection of fish and plankton are overviewed on cited results of nature experiments in the sea. Volume-backscattering coefficients for the lidar with wave-length 532 nm and the acoustic sonar are compared for schools of some fish species. Examples of effective detecting of fish schools and assessment of their abundance by lidar are demonstrated for cases of sardine and anchovy at California coast, capelin and herring in the North Pacific, mullet at the west coast of Florida, juvenile mackerel in the coastal Atlantic waters of southern Europe, menhaden in the Chesapeake Bay, and others. In some experiments, the per-kilometer costs of airborne lidar surveys are estimated as 10 % or less as compared to ship-based sampling. Besides, the lidar surveys take a shorter time and their results are not distorted by avoidance behavior of fish caused by ship and sampling gear noises. Experimental surveys of thin scattering layers (probably formed by plankton) made by NOAA fish lidar are overviewed, as well, including the first tests of the system in the South California Bay in April 1997, the tests in the North-West Atlantic at Iberian coast in August-September 1998, in the Gulf of Alaska in July-September 2001 and May-August 2002, in the Norwegian Sea in July 2002, in the North-East Pacific at the coast of Oregon and Washington in July 2003, and in the Gulf of Alaska in July 2003. Some aspects of future development for improvement of school-detecting capabilities of lidar are discussed, as additional scanning for 2D-images and adding of second receiver co-polarized with the laser light for better identification of fish species and other scatterers in the sea.

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PLENTY OF FISH IN THIS SEA: SIFTING THE PAST IN THE NORTHEASTERN ADRIATIC

Traditiones ◽

10.3986/traditio2020490302 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 49 (3) ◽

pp. 17-34

Author(s):

Nataša Rogelja Caf ◽

Alenka Janko Spreizer ◽

Martina Bofulin

Keyword(s):

Fish Species ◽

The Past ◽

North East ◽

The North ◽

Nodal Points

The paper discusses heritagization, remembering, and past presencing in the North East Adriatic through the four fish species that serve as nodal points in the interplay between the past and the present. Following the selected fish species, the paper explores the diversity of imaginaries that pertain to the mediation of the past in the present in the field of ethnological study in the North East Adriatic.

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Mercury concentrations in stomach contents and muscle of five fish species from the north east coast of England

Marine Pollution Bulletin ◽

10.1016/0025-326x(94)90333-6 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 28 (12) ◽

pp. 741-745 ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

Rupert Dixon ◽

Bryn Jones

Keyword(s):

Fish Species ◽

East Coast ◽

Stomach Contents ◽

North East ◽

The North

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INTERSPECIFIC NUTRITIONAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CLUPEONELLA ENGRAULIFORMIS AND CLUPEONELLA CASPIA IN THE CASPIAN SEA

VESTNIK OF ASTRAKHAN STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY SERIES FISHING INDUSTRY ◽

10.24143/2073-5529-2019-1-13-19 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 13-19

Author(s):

Anna Viktorovna Mikhajlova

Keyword(s):

Fish Species ◽

Caspian Sea ◽

Food Preferences ◽

Pelagic Fish ◽

Middle Part ◽

Aqueous Environment ◽

The Caspian Sea ◽

Commercial Fish ◽

The North ◽

Close Relationship

Vital activity of the Caspian ichthyofauna is mainly determined by aqueous environment with its multiple factors influencing the hydrobionts’ life cycle. It is well known that in the process of evaluating the stocks of commercial fish species it is necessary to take into account supplying them with food. Trophologic studies of mature species of Clupeonella Caspia and Clupeonella Engrauliformis in the Caspian Sea make a basis for a large number of works; however, the research of food preferences of these fish species is scarce. Clupeonella Caspia inhabits the north, middle and south parts of the Caspian Sea above the 60 m isobath. Clupeonella Engrauliformis is widespread in the middle and southern parts of the Caspian Sea above the depths more than 200 m. In the course of evaluating kilka fattening in the Caspian Sea that was continued in 2011 there were estimated nutrition relations of kilka species over the many years, traced the degree of nutritional similarity and registered interspecific relationship between these pelagic fish. The results obtained have been summarized and the whole range of trophic studies has been shown. The monitoring nature of the studies allows to infer the intensive feeding of Clupeonella Caspia and Clupeonella Engrauliformis in the summer of 2011-2014 and in 2016 in the middle part of the Caspian Sea (the study of pelagic fish fatting was not conducted in 2015). The multi-year comparative analysis of Clupeonella Caspia and Clupeonella Engrauliformis nutrition demonstrated the differences of using the dominant foodstuff among planktonic invertebrates. It has been stated that the index of similarity of the food spectrum does not always have a greater degree of coincidence in close relationship of fish in a systematic respect.

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A new compilation of stomach content data for commercially important pelagic fish species in the northeast Atlantic

Earth System Science Data ◽

10.5194/essd-7-19-2015 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 19-28 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

J. K. Pinnegar ◽

N. Goñi ◽

V. M. Trenkel ◽

H. Arrizabalaga ◽

W. Melle ◽

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Keyword(s):

Fish Species ◽

North Atlantic ◽

Stomach Content ◽

Pelagic Fish ◽

Data Sets ◽

Bay Of Biscay ◽

Predator Prey ◽

The North ◽

The North Atlantic ◽

Prey Items

Abstract. There is increasing demand for information on predator–prey interactions in the ocean as a result of legislative commitments aimed at achieving sustainable exploitation. However, comprehensive data sets are lacking for many fish species and this has hampered development of multispecies fisheries models and the formulation of effective food-web indicators. This work describes a new compilation of stomach content data for five pelagic fish species (herring, blue whiting, mackerel, albacore and bluefin tuna) sampled across the northeast Atlantic and submitted to the PANGAEA open-access data portal (www.pangaea.de). We provide detailed descriptions of sample origin and of the corresponding database structures. We describe the main results in terms of diet composition and predator–prey relationships. The feeding preferences of small pelagic fish (herring, blue whiting, mackerel) were sampled over a very broad geographic area within the North Atlantic basin, from Greenland in the west, to the Lofoten Islands in the east and from the Bay of Biscay northwards to the Arctic. This analysis revealed significant differences in the prey items selected in different parts of the region at different times of year. Tunas (albacore and bluefin) were sampled in the Bay of Biscay and Celtic Sea. Dominant prey items for these species varied by location, year and season. This data compilation exercise represents one of the largest and most wide-ranging ever attempted for pelagic fish in the North Atlantic. The earliest data included in the database were collected in 1864, whereas the most recent were collected in 2012. Data sets are available at doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.820041 and doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.826992.

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Management and Developement of Fisheries in the North Atlantic

Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada ◽

10.1139/f73-376 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 30 (12) ◽

pp. 2402-2418 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

G. Möcklinghoff

Keyword(s):

Fish Species ◽

North Atlantic ◽

Mesh Size ◽

Fishing Effort ◽

Conceptual Basis ◽

East Atlantic ◽

International Council ◽

North East ◽

The North ◽

The North Atlantic

The "conventional" fish species of the North Atlantic are mostly being fully utilized or nearly so, some having been overexploited in recent years. Recommendations for management are made by the International Commission for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries (ICNAF) and the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC). The factual and conceptual basis for management is provided by the scientists of many nations, coordinated by ICNAF and by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). The need in nearly every major North Atlantic fishery is to limit fishing effort, which in practical terms means allocating quotas to states. Such action has been initiated by ICNAF and is under active consideration by NEAFC. The process would have been easier if it had been begun a few years earlier, before several major stocks became depressed, but since new ground is being broken internationally the delay was almost inevitable. Regulations of mesh size in trawls have been in force in both areas for some years. These were successful in providing a greater yield from each year-class of groundfish as it appeared, but could not by themselves ensure a breeding stock adequate for optimum reproduction. Problems of allocation of quotas, of enforcement, and of national claims for the extension of exclusive fishing zones will require continued discussion and goodwill among the nations in the years ahead.

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Occurrence of tropical affinity fish in Galician waters, north-west Spain

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom ◽

10.1017/s0025315402006288 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 82 (5) ◽

pp. 877-880 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

R. Bañón ◽

J.L. del Rio ◽

C. Piñeiro ◽

M. Casas

Keyword(s):

Fish Species ◽

Geographical Range ◽

East Atlantic ◽

Northern Limit ◽

North West ◽

North East ◽

The North ◽

First Time ◽

New Fish Species

Four new fish species have been recorded for the first time in the last few years in Galician waters: Physiculus dalwigkii, Neoscopelus microchir, Gaidropsarus granti and Pisodonophis semicinctus. The captures of Physiculus dalwigki, N. microchir and G. granti represent a new northern limit for their distribution in the north-east Atlantic, increasing their geographical range of distribution considerably while the capture of Pisodonophis semicinctus is the second record for the Atlantic European waters.

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