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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 ...