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... Acoustic scattering layers (SL) at various depths are common phenomena in most oceans, but the organisms that make up these layers vary and so does their density, and hence the backscattered energy. During two crossings of the deep Fram Strait between the shelves at Svalbard and Northeast Greenland at latitudes 77°N and 79°N, we registered epipelagic and mesopelagic SL across the entire Fram Strai ...
fish farms; Dicentrarchus labrax; marine fish; Sebastes; rockfish; Sardinops sagax; sardines; animal behavior; animal growth; acoustics; population density; aquaculture tanks; fish culture; fish feeding
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... A challenge for the aquaculture community has long been the development of harmless techniques for monitoring fish in a tank. Acoustic telemetry has been used to monitor fish swimming behavior, and passive acoustics have been used to monitor fish feeding, but new techniques are needed to monitor non-invasively their numbers and growth rates. Recently, it has been demonstrated that the acoustical t ...
... Acute toxicity and sublethal effects of nitrite in dark-banded rockfish, Sebastes inermis (83.3 ± 7.2 g), were studied under static conditions for a period of 96 h. The acute toxicity of nitrite evaluated for the 96-h lethal concentration (LC₅₀) was 700 mg/L. The sublethal effects on selected hematological parameters of S. inermis, such as total erythrocyte count (TEC), hemoglobin, plasma glucose, ...
Sebastes; case studies; ecosystems; endangered species; environmental knowledge; fisheries; historical records; interviews; rockfish; statistical models; variance; Puget Sound; Washington (state)
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... Many of the world's most vulnerable and rapidly changing ecosystems are also among the most data‐poor, leading to an increased interest in use of local ecological knowledge (LEK) to document long‐term environmental change. The integration of multiple knowledge sources for assessing species abundance and distribution has gained traction over the past decade as a growing number of case studies show ...
Sebastes; bioassays; citrate (si)-synthase; ecology; enzyme activity; lactate dehydrogenase; lipid content; malate dehydrogenase; muscles; protein content; proximate composition; pyruvate kinase; rockfish; seasonal variation; spring; summer; water content; winter; California
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... Rockfish are commercially and recreationally important, yet due to the depths they inhabit (3–500m), little is known about their ecology. The present study examined 19 different species of Sebastes from the Southern California Bight over four seasons (late summer, fall, early winter, and spring) using metabolic enzyme assays. Enzymes used were lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), malate dehydrogenase (MDH ...
Sebastes; adults; juveniles; life history; microstructure; otoliths; rockfish; Pacific Ocean
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... Growth is key to the survival of fishes during their early life and ultimately affects annual recruitment to adult populations. To evaluate early life history traits of two commercially harvested fishes, splitnose (Sebastes diploproa) and redbanded (S. babcocki) rockfishes, we examined the otolith microstructure of juveniles of both species that settled simultaneously in an unusually large settlem ...
Bayesian theory; Hippoglossus stenolepis; Markov chain; Monte Carlo method; Scorpaenidae; Sebastes; Sebastolobus alascanus; age determination; bioavailability; carbon radioisotopes; models; otoliths; rockfish; Gulf of Alaska
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... In rockfish (Family Scorpaenidae), age determination is difficult and the annual nature of otolith growth zones must be validated independently. We applied routine age determination to four species of Gulf of Alaska rockfish: two shallower-water species, namely harlequin rockfish (Sebastes variegatus) and redstripe rockfish (Sebastes proriger), and two deep-water species, namely shortspine thornyh ...
Sebastes; coasts; color; copulation; foraging; growth curves; models; ontogeny; otoliths; parturition; predation; predator-prey relationships; risk; rockfish; species richness; swimming; China
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... The live-bearing genus Sebastes is renowned for its outstanding species richness and color diversity, and its speciation has been a point of interest. This study investigated the age, growth, reproductive biology, color pattern and ontogenetic divergence of a pair of closely related rockfishes from the coasts of the Shandong Peninsula, namely, Sebastes koreanus (n=879) and S. nudus (n=257). Margin ...
... As settled juveniles and adults, blue rockfish (Sebastes mystinus) are nonmigratory inhabitants of kelp and rocky reef habitats along the California coast, USA, and prior to settlement, they possess a pelagic larval and juvenile stage lasting 3–5 months. A previous study of adults revealed two cryptic species within S. mystinus and evidence of reproductive isolation in a region where both cryptic ...
... A particularly concerning outcome of environmental pollution is the disturbance of reproductive processes. However, studies on the impacts of pollution on the reproductive health of fish inhabiting South American environments are limited. We studied the impact of anthropogenic pollution on the reproductive health of two sympatric Patagonian marine fish species with different reproductive strategie ...
... Apparent digestibility coefficients of dry matter, crude protein, energy, and amino acids in white fish meal, anchovy meal, meat meal, feather meal, blood meal, soybean meal, corn gluten meal, cottonseed meal, wheat flour, and brewer's yeast were determined for juvenile and grower rockfish. Apparent digestibility coefficients were determined using a reference diet with chromic oxide indicator and ...
Sebastes; coasts; demersal fish; fisheries; models; oceans; rockfish; spawning; California
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... We outline a new flexible method for estimating maturity that incorporates skip spawning, which can lead to non-asymptotic behavior in the population maturity schedule. This new approach aids fisheries managers who seek to understand marine species’ responses to changing oceans. In an effort to assess shifts in maturity and spawning behavior of west coast groundfish, we used this new method to eva ...
Gadus macrocephalus; Sebastes; corals; ecosystems; habitats; marine fish; rockfish
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... The role of deep-sea coral and sponge ecosystems as habitat for marine fishes has been widely studied, with many finding significant associations, especially for rockfishes. However, rockfishes also thrive in areas largely devoid of corals and sponges. We compared the use of deep-sea corals and sponges by fish species in two ecosystems. Rockfishes (Sebastes spp.) and Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephal ...
Sebastes; biomass; dwarfing; habitats; predators; rockfish; surveys; California
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... Habitat associations and the effect of predators on dwarf rockfishes (Sebastes spp.) were investigated in two large marine protected areas (MPAs) off southern California. Using data from submersible surveys, the occurrence and abundance of dwarf rockfishes were modeled using substrata types and the biomass of predators as predictor variables. The occurrence and abundance of dwarf rockfishes genera ...
... Marine fishes from the northwest Atlantic Ocean were analysed to determine whether barcoding was effective at identifying species. Our data included 177 species, 136 genera, 81 families and 28 orders. Overall, 88% of nominal species formed monophyletic clusters based on >500 bp of the CO1 region, and the average bootstrap value for these species was 98%. Although clearly effective, the percentage ...
Sebastes; biological half-life; body size; cesium; coasts; energy; females; gamma radiation; linear models; males; marine fish; nuclear power; power plants; radionuclides; rearing; rockfish; seasonal variation; seawater; temperature
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... Since the Fukushima accident in March 2011 the concentration of radioactive cesium in Japanese rockfish (Sebastes cheni) has been decreasing slower than other fish species. The aim of this study was therefore to investigate the possibility of slow elimination rate (i.e., relatively longer Tb) as one of the reasons for the slow decrease in 137Cs concentrations in Japanese rockfish (S. cheni). To do ...
... Effective ecosystem‐based management requires a comprehensive understanding of the functional links in the system. In many marine systems, forage species constitute a critical link between primary production and upper trophic level marine predators. As top predators, seabirds can be indicators of the forage species they consume and the ocean processes that influence these populations. We analyzed ...
... The distribution and accumulation of butyltins in various tissues of 13 benthic and pelagic species living in the sub-Arctic Saguenay Fjord (Canada) were investigated. Butyltin contamination was ubiquitous in this ecosystem with tributyltin (TBT) biota to sediment accumulation factors (BSAF) ranging between 0.22 and 11, but without any important biomagnification between trophic levels. The large r ...
... Trawlers targeting Deep-water Shrimp (Pandalus borealis) in the North Atlantic use a Nordmøre sorting grid ahead of a small-meshed codend. Based on experimental fishing, the effect of adding a 9 mm spaced release grid behind the mandatory 19 mm spaced Nordmøre sorting grid, was determined. The performance in terms of size selection of the release grid and the two grids combined were assessed for t ...
Kristine Cerbule; Nadine Jacques; Hermann Pettersen; Ólafur A. Ingólfsson; Bent Herrmann; Eduardo Grimaldo; Roger B. Larsen; Jesse Brinkhof; Manu Sistiaga; Dagfinn Lilleng; Jure Brčić
... In the Northeast Atlantic deep-water shrimp (Pandalus borealis) trawl fishery, the bycatch of juvenile fish and shrimp represents a problem. This study evaluated if inserting a 200 mm mesh size top-panel in the last three sections of the tapered upper belly section of the trawl could reduce bycatch of juveniles while maintaining the catch efficiency for deep-water shrimp. The bycatch species inves ...
... The Nordmøre grid is the principle bycatch mitigation device in many shrimp trawl fisheries. However, in several of these fisheries, bycatch is a problem because small sized fish can pass through the grid and enter the codend together with the targeted shrimp. One such fishery is the Northeast Atlantic deep-water shrimp (Pandalus borealis) fishery, where the use of a Nordmøre grid is mandatory. In ...
Sebastes; adults; body condition; breeding; breeding sites; carbon; climate change; climatic factors; diet; eggs; feathers; females; juveniles; males; migratory behavior; nitrogen; nutritional adequacy; population dynamics; population size; rockfish; seabirds; stable isotopes; British Columbia
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... 1. Understanding the interactions between different periods of the annual cycle in migratory animals has been constrained by our inability to track individuals across seasons. In seabirds, virtually nothing is known about how diet quality during the non-breeding period, away from the breeding grounds, might influence subsequent reproductive success. 2. We used stable nitrogen (δ¹⁵N) and carbon (δ¹ ...
Gadus morhua; Melanogrammus; Sebastes; aquacultural and fisheries equipment; fisheries; haddock
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... In the North-East Atlantic demersal trawl fishery targeting cod and haddock, the interest on fishing gear designs that preserve fish quality and welfare has grown. However, the gear configurations tested so far imply practical challenges, therefore, more user-friendly designs are still sought by the industry. For a new design to be considered, it needs to have size selective properties that are at ...
... Islands of high genomic divergence that contain genes of evolutionary significance may form between diverging species. The gopher rockfish, Sebastes carnatus, and black-and-yellow rockfish, S. chrysomelas, are sympatrically distributed temperate marine species inhabiting rocky reefs and kelp forests on the west coast of the United States. Prior studies documented low levels of genetic divergence b ...
Sebastes; amino acids; byproducts; feeds; fish fillets; fish oils; fisheries; head; ingredients; liver; manufacturing; nutritive value; omega-6 fatty acids; powders; protein content; proteins; rockfish; Alaska
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... Black rockfish are important in the near shore fishery of Southeast Alaska, being the only species among the pelagic shelf rockfisheswith a directed fishery in State waters. The purpose of this study was to determine the composition of black rockfish fillets, heads and livers. Fillet yields were low at 13.7% of whole fish weight (WFW), while heads and livers composed 24.8 and 1.9% of WFW, respecti ...
... This study involved 34 960 specimens of deepwater redfish, Sebastes mentella (Travin), from the North Atlantic, 21 460 of them from the Irminger Sea. One hundred and three specimens of this species, 96 with pigmented lesions, were examined histologically. The black patches on the redfish skin proved to be superficial melanosis (48 cases) and deep melanosis (24 cases). Skin pterinophorosis was note ...
... Type I collagen (PSC-I) and type V collagen (PSC-V) were directly separated by DEAE-cellulose chromatography without salt precipitation from the skin of deep-sea redfish after limited pepsin digestion. The yields of PSC-I and PSC-V were 79.4% and 8.4%, respectively. The denaturation temperature of PSC-V (17.8°C) was significantly higher than that of PSC-I (15.9°C), as a result of its higher total ...
... Crude and partially purified antioxidants from shrimp shell waste were obtained by ethanol extraction and silica gel column chromatography. Whole rockfish (Sebastolobus alascanus, Sebastes ruberriumus) samples were treated with crude antioxidant solution dips while another species of rockfish fillets (Sebastes alutus) was treated with various concentrations of partially purified antioxidant soluti ...
Sebastes; divergent evolution; genetic techniques and protocols; habitats; marine science; population structure; spatial variation; Atlantic Ocean
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... An analysis of the genetic data used in the paper by Cadrin et al. (2010) indicates that they do not disprove the hypothesis of the existence of a single population of S. mentella in the Irminger Sea. ...
... The genetic underpinnings that contribute to ecological adaptation and speciation are not completely understood, especially within marine ecosystems. These evolutionary processes can be elucidated by studying adaptive radiations, because they provide replicates of divergence within a given environment or time-frame. Marine rockfishes (genus Sebastes) are an adaptive radiation and unique model syst ...
... The reproductive modes of the Scorpaenidae are extremely varied: oviparity, viviparity, and even spawning of internally fertilized eggs or embryos (zygoparity or embryoparity), as in Helicolenus, are known. The ovarian structure of this family is divided into two types by the arrangement of the stroma and the ovarian cavity. One type is the ovary in which the lamella-like stroma develops from the ...
Sebastes; fish; fisheries; fishery resources; maximum residue limits; Iceland
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... The size selectivity and usability of two diamond mesh codends, a traditional two-panel codend versus an experimental four-panel ultra-cross knotless mesh codend, were compared using the covered codend method in the Iceland redfish (Sebastes norvegicus and S. viviparous) fishery. Results showed that there was no significant difference in size selectivity between the codends at lengths greater than ...
... This experiment was conducted to compare L-ascorbyl-2-monophosphate-Ca (AMP-Ca) with L-ascorbyl-2-monophosphate-Na/Ca (AMP-Na/Ca) for supplying the dietary vitamin C for juvenile Korean rockfish (Sebastes schlegeli). Fish were fed 1 of 11 semi-purified diets containing equivalent of 0, 50, 100, 200, 400, and 800 mg ascorbic acid (AA)/kg diet in the form of AMP-Ca or AMP-Na/Ca for 12 weeks. After 1 ...
... Rockfish (genus Sebastes) assemblages can inform mechanisms of coexistence and maintenance of diversity in ecological communities. Coexistence theory characterizes ecological assemblages as following either a deterministic niche differentiation model, or a stochastic lottery model. We used natural abundances of carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes from the tissues of ten co-occurring species of roc ...
Sebastes; aggression; coasts; dominant species; home range; interspecific competition; plankton; reefs; rockfish; social dominance; territoriality; California
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... Sebastes carnatus and Sebastes chrysomelas are morphologically and ecologically similar residents of rocky reefs off the coast of California. They segregate bathymetrically, with S. chrysomelas occurring shallower than S. carnatus. Each species extended its depth distribution where its congener was removed, and no distributional changes occurred in a control area. Thus both species tolerated condi ...
Sebastes; amino acid composition; amino acids; animal byproducts; cholesterol; fatty acid composition; fillets; fish oils; fish waste; fisheries; head; lipid content; liver; liver protein; mineral content; omega-3 fatty acids; omega-6 fatty acids; protein content; proximate composition; rockfish; triacylglycerols; Alaska
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... Due to their large size and fillet quality, yelloweye rockfish (YER) are a highly prized species in both commercial and recreational Alaska fisheries. Processing yields for YER are relatively low, thus by-product volume is significant at up to 77% of whole fish weight (WFW). The objective of this research was to characterize yields and determine proximate composition, fatty acid (FA) and amino aci ...
... Radiocesium concentrations in most marine fish collected off the coast of Fukushima and surrounding prefectures have decreased with time, and four years after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident occurred, radiocesium concentrations have generally fallen below the detectable level (ca. < 10 Bq kg–¹-raw). Only in some demersal fish species have detectable concentration levels still be ...
Sebastes; depth; genetics; marine science; population structure; Atlantic Ocean
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... A one-stock hypothesis for S. mentella in the Irminger Sea was rejected in favour of one involving depth-segregated stock structure based on the best scientific information available, including recent genetic results. The depth-based hypothesis is maintained and supported, despite the criticisms by Makhrov et al. (2011), which can all be explained and refuted. ...
Oregon; Sebastes; age structure; growth models; population dynamics; rockfish
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... Understanding the basic biology of exploited fish populations, and how it changes across the waterscape, is essential to sustainable management. Biological features (age, growth, reproductive investment, and fish condition) for the newly described Deacon Rockfish Sebastes diaconus were evaluated between two different population segments, an exploited nearshore population and an unexploited offshor ...
... A recent phylogenetic review of the genus Sebastes suggested the existence of a cryptic species of vermilion rockfish (Sebastes miniatus). To evaluate the geographical and bathymetric range of the Type 1 and Type 2 forms reported in that study, cytochrome b sequences were examined from 548 fish. Type 1 fish were found primarily south of Point Conception on reefs deeper than 100 m. Type 2 fish were ...
DNA barcoding; Sebastes; barcoding; cytochrome-c oxidase; life history; phylogeny; taxonomy; trees; China; Pacific States
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... DNA barcode is effective for biological taxonomy and is able to identify species from any life-history stage. In the present study, eight species which belong to four different subgenera of genus Sebastes found in China sea waters were identified by cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) barcode. The results indicated that the intra-species variation in DNA barcode was less than inter-species variation. Whe ...
DNA barcoding; Sebastes; barcoding; cytochrome-c oxidase; fauna; fish; genes; Canada
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... DNA barcoding—sequencing a standard region of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase 1 gene (COI)—promises a rapid, accurate means of identifying animals to a species level. This study establishes that sequence variability in the barcode region permits discrimination of 98% of 201 fish species from the Canadian Pacific. The average sequence variation within species was 0.25%, while the average dis ...
Sebastes; anthropogenic activities; biodiversity; corals; fish larvae; fisheries management; habitats; hosts; life history; surveys
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... As a consequence of the decline of numerous commercial fish populations, an ecosystem‐based approach to fisheries management, which includes the protection of essential fish habitat (EFH), has emerged. Cold‐water coral (CWC) sites are recognized as biodiversity hotspots, but numerous examples of CWC destruction and degradation as a result of anthropogenic activities are well documented. However, a ...
Sebastes; biomass; fish; food production; food security; foods; models; overfishing; profitability; species diversity; California
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... Although it is recognized that marine wild‐capture fisheries are an important source of food for much of the world, the cost of sustainable capture fisheries to species diversity is uncertain, and it is often questioned whether industrial fisheries can be managed sustainably. We evaluated the trade‐off among sustainable food production, profitability, and conservation objectives in the groundfish ...
marine fish; Sebastes; predator-prey relationships; population density; predation; mortality; California
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... Experimental manipulation of population density has frequently been used to demonstrate demographic density dependence. However, such studies are usually small scale and typically provide evidence of spatial (within‐generation) density dependence. It is often unclear whether small‐scale, experimental tests of spatial density dependence will accurately describe temporal (between‐generation) density ...
... The features of distribution and catch in the Barents Sea of the golden redfish Sebastes norwegicus associated with changes in its size composition have been considered. It has been shown that juveniles and immature individuals are found in this region in a larger water area than medium-sized and large fish. The factor limiting the distance of migrations of adult golden redfish from the areas of s ...
fish farms; drug residues; food contamination; praziquantel; Sebastes; dosage; skeletal muscle; fish fillets; oral administration; pharmacokinetics; net pens; farmed fish
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... Depletion of praziquantel in muscle tissue and skin of cultured rockfish (Sebastes schlegeli) under the commercial net-pen farm conditions was analyzed. The levels of praziquantel were determined after the administration of three doses of either praziquantel 200 or 400 mg/kg of body weight (bw) given at 24-h intervals. Fish were collected daily following last drug administration and analyzed for p ...
marine fish; probability distribution; linear models; simulation models; spatial distribution; Sebastes; model validation; rockfish; fishery resources; population density; schools of fish
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... Many marine fish, including Pacific rockfish (Sebastes spp.), exhibit habitat-selective and shoaling behaviours, which can lead to imprecision when using survey data to estimate an annual index of stock abundance. We develop a spatial agent-based model (ABM) for Pacific rockfish, which generates data similar to those observed in existing bottom-trawl surveys and can represent various spatial and s ...
DNA primers; Sebastes; databases; expressed sequence tags; loci; models; polymerase chain reaction; rockfish; United States
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... Severe declines in abundance of Pacific Ocean Perch (Sebastes alutus) and other rockfishes have led to catch restrictions along the US west coast. The stock structure of many important commercial members of Sebastes spp remains a major source of uncertainty in stock assessment models. Here we report development of PCR primer pairs from 13 novel EST-SSR loci obtained from public Sebastes EST databa ...
... We mined expressed sequence tag libraries from three species of rockfish (Sebastes caurinus, S. goodei, and S. rastrelliger) for microsatellites. A total of 111 novel sequences with repetitive elements were isolated and we were able to successfully amplify 51 of these in five different rockfish species. Population level surveys for two species (S. flavidus and S. melanops) were conducted with thes ...
DNA primers; Sebastes; alleles; databases; expressed sequence tags; loci; polymerase chain reaction; rockfish; California
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... The bocaccio rockfish has historically supported an important fishery on the west coast of North America, and experienced a severe population collapse in the past several decades. Here we report development of 13 EST-SSR PCR primer pairs developed from previously published Sebastes EST databases. All loci are involved in metabolic processes. Diversity in a collection of bocaccio rockfish from off ...
Delphinapterus leucas; Polychaeta; Sebastes; adults; community structure; diet; ecosystems; estuaries; fish; population dynamics; prey species; squid; stomach; summer
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... Ecosystems and community structure fluctuate over time as a result of natural and anthropogenic factors that may affect prey availability and population dynamics. Most of what we know about St. Lawrence Estuary (SLE) Beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) diet comes from stomach contents collected 80 years ago mainly from a hunting site that Beluga no longer use. How reflective these data are of Beluga di ...
Sebastes; artificial reefs; coasts; community structure; conservation areas; demersal fish; fish communities; habitat destruction; habitats; reefs; risk; rockfish; sonar; species richness; surveys; threatened species; British Columbia
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... Human-made marine habitats such as artificial reefs are used to mitigate marine habitat degradation and aid conservation of species at risk. We used ROV and sonar to survey threatened rockfish (Sebastes spp.) and other groundfish species associated with 18 artificial and natural reefs along the south coast of BC, Canada. Using an information-theoretic approach, we found that community composition ...
... Food control laboratories are confronted with new challenges in respect to fishery product authentication; examples are identification of hybrids (e.g. in case of catfish, tilapia, sturgeon, snapper) and assignment of fish to certified stocks. Against this background, differentiation of fish species and populations by polymerase chain reaction (PCR)–based DNA analysis of nuclear genes has become o ...
... Marine species with pelagic larvae typically exhibit little population structure, suggesting long‐distance dispersal and high gene flow. Directly quantifying dispersal of marine fishes is challenging but important, particularly for the design of marine protected areas (MPAs). Here, we studied kelp rockfish (Sebastes atrovirens) sampled along ~25 km of coastline in a boundary current‐dominated ecos ...
... Body shape variation is integrally related to many aspects of fish ecology, including locomotion and foraging, and can indicate the functional diversity of fish assemblages. Few studies have thoroughly characterized body shape in a diverse marine fish clade, or investigated both temporal and spatial patterns of variation in body shape disparity. Here, I use digital photographs to measure geometric ...
... Stomach contents from 1221 Pacific spiny dogfish (Squalus suckleyi) were collected from the Gulf of Alaska over 2004–2006 and analyzed to determine predominant prey species. Pacific spiny dogfish in the Gulf of Alaska have a variable diet suggesting that they are generalist feeders. Of the 68.30% of stomachs with prey contents, the most important prey groups based on the percent prey-specific inde ...
... An understanding of the reproductive biology of a species is fundamental to successful management of fish stocks. Rockfish (Sebastes spp.) have complex reproduction, being viviparous and generally late to mature, often with extended adolescent periods characterized by abortive maturation events. Furthermore, whereas the majority of Sebastes species in the California Current region produce one broo ...
Sebastes; Streptococcus parauberis; aquaculture; brain; farms; genome; nucleotide sequences; Japan
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... Streptococcus parauberis strain SK-417 was isolated from the brain of a diseased Sebastes ventricosus, collected from an aquaculture farm in April 2013 in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. The draft genome sequence, obtained with a 454 GS Junior sequencing system, consists of 33 large contigs of >500 bp, totaling 1,958,836 bp, and has a G+C content of 35.4%. ...
... Multispecies modeling is being increasingly accepted in stock assessment, especially in the context of an ecosystem approach to fisheries management (EAF). To achieve a future implementation of an EAF in the Flemish Cap, we present a multispecies model developed in Gadget, which covers the main commercial stocks over the period 1988–2012: cod (Gadus morhua), redfish (Sebastes spp.), and northern s ...
... A parasite assemblage of Sebastes miniatus from northwestern Baja California, México, was composed of a total of 12 species: five ectoparasites (two monogeneans and three parasitic copepods) and seven endoparasites (two digeneans, one cestode, three nematodes, and one acanthocephala). Five of these parasites constituted new genera records to the genus Sebastes, and nine were new geographic records ...
Sebastes; food webs; ingestion; invertebrates; issues and policy; marine ecosystems; oceans; people; recipes; rockfish; seafoods; social benefit; viability; Oregon
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... Crafting effective responses to problems faced by the world's oceans requires that we grasp the social drivers compelling harmful patterns of ocean use. One of the disquieting consequences of fishing is reduction in the mean trophic level of commercially captured species (fishing down the food web). While the trophic level of fisheries catch has declined in nearly two-thirds of the world's ecosyst ...
... Compensatory growth and proximate composition of dark-banded rockfish (mean weight 13.6 g) were examined after fish had experienced five different prefeeding regimes over a 7-wk period. Fish were fed at 0% (R0), 25% (R25), 50% (R50), 75% (R75), and 100% (R100, control) satiation for 2 wk before satiation feeding for 5 wk. Fish of R50 and R75 achieved the same body weight as the control fish after ...
Sebastes; coasts; fisheries; fishermen; fishing boats; mortality; research projects; rockfish; sport fishing; surveys; California
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... Fishes caught from depth often suffer from barotrauma, which can result in high mortality rates (close to 100% for some species) when released at the surface. To mitigate for this, the recreational fishing community pro-actively developed several different types of descending devices designed to assist unwanted or prohibited fish back toward the bottom for release. Post-release survival using reco ...
... The effects of dietary levels of L-ascorbic acid (AA) on growth and tissue concentration in juvenile Korean rockfish, Sebastes schlegeli (Hilgendorf), were studied. After a 1 week conditioning period, the fish were divided into six groups and given a semipurified diet for 16 weeks. Experimental diets were supplemented with either 0, 25, 50, 75, 150 or 1500 mg L-AA kg-1 diet (C0, C25, C50, C75, C15 ...
Sebastes; dietary protein; dietary fat; nutrient intake; fish feeding; feeds; body composition; digestible protein; energy requirements; liveweight gain; body weight; feed conversion; liver; feed intake; digestive tract
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... A feeding trial of three dietary digestible protein (DP) levels (37%, 42% and 47%) and two dietary digestible lipid (DL) levels (7% and 14%) factorial design with three replications was conducted to investigate the proper dietary protein and lipid (energy) levels for the growth of juvenile rockfish. Fish, average initial weight 21.9 g, were fed the experimental diets for 20 weeks. Weight gain impr ...
liver; feed conversion; feeding frequency; muscles; Sebastes; pelleted feeds; body composition; liveweight gain; lipids; water content; feed intake; protein content; fish feeding; gastric emptying
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... A 7-week feeding experiment was conducted to determine the optimum feeding frequency for growth, body composition and gastric evacuation of the juvenile Korean rockfish. Three replicate groups of the fish (average weight of 5.7 g) were fed to visual satiety either dry pellets (DP) or moist pellets (MP), at different feeding frequencies (two meals a day, one meal a day or one meal every 2 days). At ...
... Methylmercury (MeHg) is a potent neurotoxin that bioaccumulates in seafood. Co-occurrence of selenium (Se) may affect the bioavailability and toxicity of MeHg in organisms. Here we report the concentrations of total mercury (Hg) and Se in 17 teleost fish species (n = 8459) sampled during 2006–2015 from the North East Atlantic Ocean (NEAO) and evaluate species variation and effects of geography. Me ...
Sebastes; case studies; coasts; demersal fish; ecosystems; fisheries; models; risk; rockfish; uncertainty; Pacific Ocean; United States
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... The Beverton-Holt stock-recruitment (SR) relationship has typically been reparameterized such that a single parameter, “steepness,” can be used to define recruitment compensation along a common scale. However, “steepness” is notoriously difficult to estimate in stock assessment models, particularly for the integrated analysis models used to assess groundfish stocks along the U.S. West Coast, due i ...
... Original data (134Cs and 137Cs, and sampling location) of marine products in Fukushima Prefecture monitored during 2011–2015 (n = 32,492) were analyzed to present an updated detailed description of radiocesium contamination after the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident and to examine taxon/habitat-specific decreasing trends in different areas. Furthermore, marine species data p ...
... Over a decade ago, ocean acidification (OA) exposure was reported to induce otolith overgrowth in teleost fish. This phenomenon was subsequently confirmed in multiple species; however, the underlying physiological causes remain unknown. Here, we report that splitnose rockfish (Sebastes diploproa) exposed to ~1600 μatm pCO₂(pH ~7.5) were able to fully regulated the pH of both blood and endolymph (t ...
... Potential feed ingredients with high lipid content were made by enzymatic digestion followed by centrifugation of eye tissue from dusky rockfish (Sebastes ciliatus), coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), and sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), and brain tissue from sockeye salmon. Supernatant fractions contained significant levels of docosahexaenoic acid and eicosapentaenoic acid and were essential ...
... Genome size—the total haploid content of nuclear DNA— is constant in all cells in individuals within a species, but differs among species. Consequently, the genome size is a quantifiable genetic signature that not only characterizes a species, but it can reflect chromatin modifications, which play fundamental roles in most biological processes that are involved in the manipulation and expression o ...
... Ecologists often point to excessive truncation of a population's size‐structure as a deleterious effect of exploitation, yet the effect of this truncation on population persistence is seldom quantified. While persistence of marine populations requires maintenance of a sufficient level of lifetime reproduction, fishing reduces lifetime reproduction by increasing the total mortality rate, preventing ...
Ophiodon elongatus; Sebastes; bedrock; cameras; habitats; probability; rockfish; solar radiation; species diversity; surveys; California
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... The increasing use of underwater cameras to estimate fish abundance often does not account for the behavior of target species. These behaviors can affect detectability of fish and bias density estimates. This study estimated abundance and behavior of several rockfishes (Sebastes spp.) and lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus) at Footprint Bank, a small offshore bank using images from randomly deployed stat ...
... Juvenile rockfish (Sebastes spp.) are important prey to seabirds in the California Current System, particularly during the breeding season. Both seabird breeding success and the abundance of pelagic juvenile rockfish show high interannual variability. This covariation is largely a response to variable ocean conditions; however, fishing on adult rockfish may have had consequences for seabird produc ...
Sebastes; confidence interval; demography; fisheries; genetic variation; life history; microsatellite repeats; population size; rockfish; variance
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... We report the variance effective population size (Ne) in darkblotched rockfish (Sebastes crameri) utilizing the temporal method for overlapping generations, which requires a combination of age-specific demography and genetic information from cohorts. Following calculations of age-specific survival and reproductive success from fishery data, we genotyped a sample (n = 1087) comprised by 6 cohorts ( ...
... Genotyping errors are present in almost all genetic data and can affect biological conclusions of a study, particularly for studies based on individual identification and parentage. Many statistical approaches can incorporate genotyping errors, but usually need accurate estimates of error rates. Here, we used a new microsatellite data set developed for brown rockfish (Sebastes auriculatus) to esti ...
Micromesistius poutassou; Sebastes; acoustics; biomass; energy; oceans; pelagic fish; species diversity; surveys; swimming; system optimization
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... Estimates of fish biomass, derived from hydroacoustic registrations are generally dependent on biological information from trawl catches. Catch composition is necessary for accurate quantitative allocation of acoustic energy to the different species present in the water column. For this purpose, the species composition in the trawl catch must be representative of the true species composition in th ...
... The behavior of roundfish excluded from an ocean shrimp (Pandalus jordani) trawl with a deflecting grid was studied using underwater video. The main study objective was to evaluate the condition of escaping eulachon (Thaleichthys pacificus), a species considered “threatened” under the United States Endangered Species Act. Observed behaviors were quantified in relation to a proposed model of an ide ...
Anoplopoma fimbria; Hippoglossus stenolepis; Sebastes; bycatch; coasts; demersal fish; economic sustainability; fishermen; fishery resources; harvesting; nontarget organisms; rockfish; United States
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... The U.S. West Coast limited entry groundfish trawl fishery is managed under an individual fishing quota program. For many fishermen targeting flatfishes in this fishery, catches of rockfishes (Sebastes spp.), sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria), and Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) can be a concern because quota is limited relative to flatfish quotas. Thus, approaches to minimize bycatch of li ...
... In this study, a multispecies gadget model (GadCap) simulating the interactions among the Flemish Cap cod (Gadus morhua), redfish (Sebastes spp.), and shrimp (Pandalus borealis) has been incorporated as the operating model in a management strategy evaluation (MSE) framework (a4a-FLR) to test the performance of multiple combinations of harvest control rules (HCRs) for the three stocks when recruitm ...
Sebastes; case studies; crabs; rockfish; satellites; swim bladder; Alaska
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... Pop-up satellite archival tags (PSATs) were deployed on eight blackspotted rockfish (Sebastes melanostictus) (37–54cm fork length) caught in southeast Alaska at depths from 148 to 198m. Six of these fish were tagged and released immediately after capture in a commercially available inverted, weighted crab ring, descended quickly to what was assumed to be the seafloor, and remained at that depth un ...
diet; primary productivity; Euphausiacea; Sebastes; Amphipoda; environmental factors; rockfish; species diversity; stomach; multivariate analysis; stable isotopes; zooplankton; trophic relationships; Oregon; Columbia River; California
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... The feeding habits of pelagic, juvenile rockfishes (Sebastes spp.) collected off Oregon in 2002, and Oregon and Washington in 2006, were examined using stomach content and stable isotope analyses. Sampling occurred along a series of transects across the shelf between Crescent City, California (Lat. 41°54.0′), and Newport, Oregon (Lat. 44°39.0′), in 2002, and off Willapa Bay, Washington (Lat. 46°40 ...
Abudefduf; Hyperoglyphe japonica; Kyphosus; Oplegnathus; Paramonacanthus; Petroscirtes; Rudarius; Sebastes; Stephanolepis cirrhifer; autumn; fauna; fish; spring; summer; water temperature; weeds; Japan
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... From 2002 to 2006, the fish fauna associated with sea weeds drifting in the Chikuzen Sea, northern Kyushu, Japan, was examined. The total numbers of species and individuals collected were 51 and 5475, respectively. The five dominant species, accounting for approximately 80% of the total individuals, were Rudarius ercodes, Stephanolepis cirrhifer, Petroscirtes breviceps, Sebastes thompsoni and Para ...
... A series of interviews with Canadian redfish Sebastes spp. fishing industry participants active in the 1980s and 1990s was conducted to determine how fish were caught, how much was caught (reported landings, unreported landings, and discards), and the sizes of fish caught during that time. Indicators of total fish catch derived from these interviews showed that reported catch may have underestimat ...
... Formaldehyde concentrations in muscle were determined in cultured olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) and black rockfish (Sebastes schlegeli) after bath treatment of formalin (37% formaldehyde) at 100, 300 and 500 mg/l for 1 h. Loss of formaldehyde from aerated seawater by air blower and non-aerated seawater containing 25, 50, 100, 150 and 200 mg/l of formalin was also determined. Formaldehyde ...
... Global warming drives changes in oceanographic conditions in the Arctic Ocean and the adjacent continental slopes. This may result in favourable conditions for increased biological production in waters at the northern continental shelves. However, production in the central Arctic Ocean will continue to be limited by the amount of light and by vertical stratification reducing nutrient availability. ...
... Genetic and morphological divergence among the four subspecies in the Sebastes pachycephalus complex (S. pachycephalus pachycephalus, S. p. nigricans, S. p. nudus and S. p. chalcogrammus) was clarified. Principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) based on AFLP clearly divided 55 specimens of the complex into two groups, the S. p. pachycephalusâS. p. nigricans group (P-Ni group) and the S. p. nudusâS. ...
... The genetic differences among three colour morphotypes of the black rockish, Sebastes inermis, were determined from mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLP) analyses. In the AFLP analysis, each morphotype could be distinguished by the presence or absence matrix of five AFLP loci. These diagnostic loci indicated that the three morphotypes represented independent ...
... Rockfishes of the genus Sebastes are extensively distributed in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Although the occurrence of two morphologically similar species in the Southern Hemisphere, Sebastes oculatus and Sebastes capensis, is now clearly established, the taxonomic status and phylogeographic patterns for the genus in the region have not yet been completely resolved. In this study, we provide ...
Sebastes; adults; fisheries; larvae; life history; microsatellite repeats; perch; population structure; Bering Sea; Pacific Ocean
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... Prevailing oceanographic processes, pelagic larvae, adult mobility, and large populations of many marine species often leads to the assumption of wide-ranging populations. Applying this assumption to more localized populations can lead to inappropriate conservation measures. The Pacific ocean perch (Sebastes alutus, POP) is economically and ecologically valuable, but little is known about its popu ...
Sebastes; animal growth; correlation; field experimentation; food availability; microstructure; models; nauplii; otoliths; rockfish; salinity; water temperature; Chile
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... A field experiment was conducted for 4 consecutive days in December 2010 in Hornopirén inlet, a fjord from Chilean Patagonia, in order to determine the impact of marked environmental differences on fish larval distribution and growth (i.e., otolith microstructure) of the rockfish Sebastes oculatus. Two layers were noticeable: a surface one (0–10 m depth), characterized by warmer temperature and lo ...
models; Sebastes; spring; duration; perch; water temperature; habitats; mortality; juveniles; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific Ocean
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... Nursery areas for juvenile fishes are often important for determining recruitment in marine populations by providing habitats that can maximize growth and thereby minimize mortality. Pacific ocean perch (POP, Sebastes alutus) have an extended juvenile period where they inhabit rocky nursery habitats. We examined POP nursery areas to link growth potential to recruitment. Juvenile POP were captured ...
Sebastes; animal growth; animal reproduction; fish culture; mariculture; mathematical models
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... The present study evaluates the extent to which the viviparous reproductive strategy that characterizes the genus Sebastes (rockfish) can be expressed in culture. In addition, the growth patterns of rockfish were examined during the early phases of growth pertinent to the culture of the species. Using grass rockfish (Sebastes rastrelliger) as our model, it was demonstrated that all phases of ovari ...
marine fish; rockfish; Sebastes; mortality; wildlife habitats; population dynamics; population density; California
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... For species that have an open population structure, local population size may be strongly influenced by a combination of propagule supply and post‐settlement survival. While it is widely recognized that supply of larvae (or recruits) is variable and that variable recruitment may affect the relative contribution of pre‐ and post‐settlement factors, less effort has been made to quantify how variatio ...
... We combined a high-resolution acoustic telemetry array with presence/absence receivers to conduct a preliminary study of the seasonal movements, activity patterns, and habitat associations of the newly described Deacon Rockfish (Sebastes diaconus). Eleven mature female Deacon Rockfish were tagged and monitored during an 11-month period, at a nearshore rocky reef off Seal Rock, Oregon, USA, an area ...