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Recruitment Variability, contRecruitment Variability, cont’’d:d:HHoo: Delayed Development: Delayed Development
Houde Houde (1987) (1987) Fish early life dynamics and recruitment variabilityFish early life dynamics and recruitment variability::10-fold or greater fluctuations in fish recruitment can be due to10-fold or greater fluctuations in fish recruitment can be due tosmall variations in mortality rates or stage durations in the earlysmall variations in mortality rates or stage durations in the earlylife of fishlife of fish
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Agents of Mortality for Young FishAgents of Mortality for Young Fish
Fuiman & Werner 2002
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Density-dependent PopulationDensity-dependent PopulationRegulationRegulation
Potential contributing mechanismsPotential contributing mechanisms:: Reduced fecundity of adults due to foodReduced fecundity of adults due to food
limitationlimitation Predation of adults on larvae or juvenilesPredation of adults on larvae or juveniles Direct competition for food between juvenilesDirect competition for food between juveniles
and adultsand adults Indirect effects of adults on food supply forIndirect effects of adults on food supply for
larvae, e.g., adults reduce stocks of adultlarvae, e.g., adults reduce stocks of adultcopepods to low levels, resulting in lowcopepods to low levels, resulting in lowabundance of abundance of naupliinauplii
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HHoo: Retention Area: Retention Area Survival depends upon being retained in areasSurvival depends upon being retained in areas
((““nursery groundsnursery grounds””) with specific hydrographic) with specific hydrographiccharacteristicscharacteristics vs vs. loss to offshore advection. loss to offshore advectione.g., Migration Triangle Hypothesise.g., Migration Triangle Hypothesis
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CoastalCoastalConveyorConveyor
BeltBelt
Gulf of Maine
Atlantic herringspawning site
• Herring spawn in latesummer through autumn.• Extended larval stage,then complete transitionfrom larvae to juvenilewhen 5-8 months old.• Later, current turnsoffshore: into a cyclonicgyre, retaining larvae inarea.
Fuiman & Werner 2002
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Pacific HakePacific Hake
Adults migrate south overshelf in winter
Spawn off So. Cal (deeperthan mixed layer and as faras 300 km offshore): larvaedrift inshore
High recruitment:weakupwelling
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Member/Vagrant HypothesisMember/Vagrant Hypothesis
a.k.a. Larval Retention Hypothesisa.k.a. Larval Retention Hypothesis
Members able to remain in favorable geographic setting (i.e., allows them toMembers able to remain in favorable geographic setting (i.e., allows them tocomplete their life cycle)complete their life cycle)
Vagrants fail to reach appropriate habitat, generally donVagrants fail to reach appropriate habitat, generally don’’t reproducet reproduceKey element: larvae must reach & remain within the nursery sites afterKey element: larvae must reach & remain within the nursery sites after
spawningspawning
Menhaden off N.Carolina in winter:spawn
Eggs float, larvaefeed on µzp, enterestuaries and becomejuveniles in 30-90days
Same strategy:flounder, stripedmullet and Japanesesardine
Coral Reef FishCoral Reef FishBroadcast spawners --Larvae spend several weeks in the planktonHow do they find the reef, or any reef, after such dispersaltime?
Swearer et al. (Nature 1999) used the elemental compositionof Caribbean wrasse otoliths to show their origins (coastalvs. open ocean) and found that >50% of recruits were fromlocally spawned larvae
Jones et al. (Nature 1999) marked 10 million damselfishembryo otoliths. Later, examined 5,000 juvenile settlers andfound 15 marked fish. This translated to 15 - 60% ofjuveniles returning to same site, since only 0.5 - 2% of totalembryos were marked.
FishFish Otoliths Otoliths• fish “ear bones” -- bony fish have 3 pairs of these -- sense ofbalance and aid in hearing• natural data logger -- grow throughout the fish’s lifetime• daily and annual growth rings (like in trees)• composed mainly of calcium carbonate, but incorporatestrace elements, too.• composition records age of fish, growth patterns, and chemicalenvironment
• fossilized otoliths alsoused by paleontologists toinfer past conditions, suchas water temperaturethrough stable O2 isotopes.
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Fish MigrationsFish Migrations Migrate to seek favorable food supply or idealMigrate to seek favorable food supply or ideal
reproduction sitesreproduction sites
Some migrations several hundred to severalSome migrations several hundred to severalthousand kilometersthousand kilometers
Some migrations between salt and fresh waterSome migrations between salt and fresh water(spawning (spawning feeding grounds).feeding grounds). Anadromous Anadromous fish: breed in fresh, spend most of rest offish: breed in fresh, spend most of rest of
life in the sea (e.g., salmon)life in the sea (e.g., salmon)
Catadromous Catadromous fish: breed in the sea, spend life in freshfish: breed in the sea, spend life in freshwater (e.g., freshwater eels)water (e.g., freshwater eels)
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MigrationMigrationexampleexample
Pacific Albacore Tuna:from Pacific coast of the US,across the Pacific well north ofHawaii, then southward acrossalong the east coast of Asia toJapani.e., generally along majorcurrent systems.
And: within 14.4° - 16.1°C waters
How do they find their way?How do they find their way?Sun: Use the sun to aid orientation, “sun compass”
Geomagnetic and Geoelectric Fields: movement of oceancurrents through the earth’s magnetic field generates electricfields that some fish can sense (salmon, eels).
Random walks? Some studies show that if salmon swim inrandom directions in the open ocean, but then get near theriver mouth where they originated, and presumably can then“smell home”, then no other directional sense is required,other than maybe use of the sun for orientation
Conclusion: relatively low degree of orientation probablyinvolved in migrations and not all migrants make it “home”
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OlfactionOlfaction•• ““smelling homesmelling home”” evidence evidence
•• many fish (eels, salmon, carp, trout) canmany fish (eels, salmon, carp, trout) candistinguish between home and non-homedistinguish between home and non-homewaterswaters
Hamdani et al. 2007
•• what chemicals? thosewhat chemicals? thoseassociated with sexassociated with sex(pheromones), food (amino(pheromones), food (aminoacids), and avoidance andacids), and avoidance andmigration behavior (e.g.,migration behavior (e.g.,bile salts)bile salts)
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Summary: Why does fisheriesSummary: Why does fisheriesrecruitment vary so much even in therecruitment vary so much even in the
absence of fishing pressure?absence of fishing pressure?Basic species ecology with practical implicationsBasic species ecology with practical implications Vulnerability during early life historyVulnerability during early life history
Starvation -- first feedingStarvation -- first feeding Predation -- poor escape abilitiesPredation -- poor escape abilities(side topic: adaptive behavioral responses to predation)(side topic: adaptive behavioral responses to predation) Delayed developmentDelayed development
Oceanographic context - random componentOceanographic context - random component timing and magnitude of food availabilitytiming and magnitude of food availability
productive periods -- blooms & lagsproductive periods -- blooms & lags stable periods -- prey aggregationstable periods -- prey aggregation
timing and magnitude of predator outbreakstiming and magnitude of predator outbreaks Vagaries of ocean currents -- drift/retentionVagaries of ocean currents -- drift/retention
The role of the jellyfish - The role of the jellyfish - medusoidmedusoid• Increasingly important in many ecosystemsworldwide
regime shifts? over-fishing?
• Competitors and predators of fish: perhapsrepresent an alternate guild of predators to fish inmarine ecosystems
• Adapted to patchy and diffuse food resourcescan grow rapidly if food available or subsist on little or no food (able to shrinkwhen starved)
• Can survive at lower O2 levels than fish -indication of eutrophication
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Benguela Benguela Upwelling Zone - shift from fishUpwelling Zone - shift from fishto jelliesto jellies
Lynam et al. 2006c,d = jellyfish, e,f = fish
jellyfish biomass = 12.2 MTfish biomass = 3.6 MT
mainly sardines/anchovies
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SalpsSalps• Abundant in equatorial and Antarctic waters• Filter feeders with fecal pellets sinking ~1,000
m/day• Decrease in krill in Antarctica coincides with
increase in salps
Larry Madin, WHOI
• Why? Both consume similarfood but salps tolerate highertemperatures so can live inopen water whereas krill needsea ice to over-winter and asnursery grounds
CtenophoresCtenophores• “comb jellies”: carnivores --use tentacles to entangle prey• usually do not have a bigeffect on ecosystem function• Big exception: introduction ofa North Atlantic species into theBlack Sea -- out-competedanchovies for copepod prey andcontributed to collapse offishery
SiphonophoresSiphonophores
• colonial organism, carnivore• feed on fish larvae,crustaceans• movement: air bladderpushed by the winds/currents• most famous member:Portuguese Man O’War
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