Spatial scaling of juvenile–adult associations in northwest Atlantic sea scallop Placopecten magellanicus populations

2013 ◽  
Vol 493 ◽  
pp. 185-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
JD Carey ◽  
RA Wahle ◽  
KDE Stokesbury
1987 ◽  
Vol 44 (7) ◽  
pp. 1361-1366 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Tremblay ◽  
L. D. Meade ◽  
G. V. Hurley

Methods for the collection, processing, and identification of planktonic sea scallop larvae (Placopecten magellanicus) (Gmelin) are described. Bivalve larvae collected from the Bay of Fundy were compared with cultured P. magellanicus larvae. Sea scallop larvae collected from the plankton can be tentatively identified based on shape and size; examination of the larval hinge structure allows confirmation.


1992 ◽  
Vol 49 (7) ◽  
pp. 1486-1492 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. L. Roddick ◽  
R. J. Miller

Assessment of the damage of one fishery by another requires knowledge of the overlap, in time and space, of the damaging fishing effort and the abundance of the damaged species, as well as a measure of the rate of damage. This approach was used to measure the impact of inshore scallop dragging on lobsters in Nova Scotia. Areas of reported co-occurrence of lobster and scallop grounds were surveyed by divers to determine the extent of overlap. Only 2 of 52 sites surveyed had lobsters on scallop grounds that could be dragged. Divers surveyed one site six times during 1987 and 1988 and found lobsters most abundant during August and September. Only 2% of the lobsters in the path of scallop drags were either captured or injured. The estimated value of lobsters destroyed by dragging for scallops during periods of peak lobster abundance was minor: $757 at one site and $176 at the other. Restricting dragging to periods of low lobster abundance significantly reduces this cost.


2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adi Santoso

A study of the growth of the sea scallop, Placopecten magellanicus, under suspended culture conditions was carried out over a seven month period at a culture site in Graves Shoal, Mahone Bay,Nova Scotia – Canada. Scallop spat were cultivated in pearl nets at a density of 30-35 per net set at four locations corresponding to the surface (7 m) and bottom (14 m) at the outer edge and the center of the site. Shell height was measured at monthly intervals. Environmental conditions represented as temperature and food availability at the surface and bottom over the same period were also monitored. Shell Height growth rate was slightly greater at the surface than at the bottom. At the surface sites growth was greater at the outside (SUROUT) than at the center locations, but at the bottom growth was greater at the centre location (BOTIN). The only significant relationship between shell growth and temperature - food variables was chlorophyll a concentration.  Key words: temperature, food availability, shell height, sea scallop


Author(s):  
Jonathan Grant ◽  
Peter J. Cranford

Laboratory feeding experiments with the sea scallop Placopecten magellanicus were carried out to compare scope for growth (SFG) to measured growth and determine the effect of diet on carbon and nitrogen SFG. Diets consisting of cultured phytoplankton, kelp detritus, and resuspended sediment were provided daily for 52 days (October-December). Measurements of clearance rate, absorption efficiency, respiration, O/N ratio, and carbon and nitrogen content of diets and scallop tissue were used to construct carbon and nitrogenbudgets for each diet. Growth coefficients were calculated from change in tissue weight during the study period.


2018 ◽  
Vol 208 ◽  
pp. 7-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daphne M. Munroe ◽  
Dale Haidvogel ◽  
Joseph C. Caracappa ◽  
John M. Klinck ◽  
Eric N. Powell ◽  
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1993 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 1222-1228 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Kenchington ◽  
K. S. Naidu ◽  
D. L. Roddick ◽  
D. I. Cook ◽  
E. Zouros

Three biochemical techniques were applied to adductor muscles of Placopecten magellanicus and Chlamys islandica, two commercially important scallops, to search for species-specific genetic markers. Allozyme electrophoresis identified two enzyme systems, mannose phosphate isomerase and glutamic oxaloacetate transaminase, which appear to be diagnostic. Sequencing of the 18S rRNA gene in each species showed 15 nucleotide differences over 1815 base pairs. Digestion of the gene with the restriction enzyme XHO I released two fragments in Placopecten and three in Chlamys. All three techniques could be developed for management purposes as part of an enforcement programme to identify illegally caught scallops.


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