MEPS - Vol. 741 - Table of contents

THEME SECTION

Small pelagic fish: new research frontiers

Organizers/Symposium conveners: Myron Peck, Ignacio Catalán, Susana Garrido, Ryan Rykaczewski, Akinori Takasuka
Editors: Myron Peck, Ignacio Catalán, Susana Garrido, Ryan Rykaczewski, Rebecca Asch, Jan McDowell, Elliott Hazen, Isaak Kaplan


Photo: Col. Estúdio Horácio Novais I FCG – Biblioteca de Arte e Arquivos
Small pelagic fish (SPF) account for more than 30% by weight of the total landings of capture fisheries around the world and are crucial for global food security. SPF also play an important role in the transfer of energy in food webs through mid-trophic levels, so understanding processes affecting the dynamics of their populations, their role in marine ecosystems and how these shape robust management practices continues to be a high priority. Substantial progress continues to be made on understanding the drivers and dynamics of SPF in marine ecosystems. The integration of numerical models with ever-growing data from monitoring efforts and stock assessments has enabled more comprehensive consideration of hypotheses describing SPF population variability. Additionally, the rapid development of new methods such as eDNA, machine learning, and genome analysis to ascertain population structure can offer new insight to long-standing questions. This TS includes contributions from the 2022 international (ICES, PICES, FAO) symposium on “Small Pelagic Fish: New Frontiers in Science for Sustainable Management” and highlight the state-of-the-art in these and other topics related to the ecology and sustainable management of SPF.

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Peck MA, Catalán IA, Garrido S, Rykaczewski RR, Asch RG, McDowell JR, Hazen EL, Kaplan IC
INTRODUCTION: Small pelagic fish: new frontiers in ecological research
MEPS 741:1-6 | Full text in pdf format

Ruzicka J, Chiaverano L, Coll M, Garrido S, Tam J, Murase H, Robinson K, Romagnoni G, Shannon L, Silva A, Szalaj D, Watari S
REVIEW: The role of small pelagic fish in diverse ecosystems: knowledge gleaned from food-web models
MEPS 741:7-27 | Full text in pdf format

Luján C, Oliveros-Ramos R, Barrier N, Leadley P, Shin YJ
Key species and indicators revealed by an uncertainty analysis of the marine ecosystem model OSMOSE
MEPS 741:29-46 | Full text in pdf format

Wells BK, Santora JA, Bizzarro JJ, Billings A, Brodeur RD, Daly EA, Field JC, Richerson KE, Thorson JT
Trophoscapes of predatory fish reveal biogeographic structuring of spatial dietary overlap and inform fisheries bycatch patterns
MEPS 741:47-70 | Full text in pdf format

Gunther KM, Baker MR, Aydin KY
Using predator diets to infer forage fish distribution and assess responses to climate variability in the eastern Bering Sea
MEPS 741:71-99 | Full text in pdf format

Fonseca P, Barata M, Castanho S, Pousão-Ferreira P, Garrido S
Effect of diet composition and temperature on the gastric evacuation rate of European sardine: implication for egg predation estimates
MEPS 741:101-112 | Full text in pdf format

Veríssimo A, Fonseca P, Garrido S
Molecular barcoding reveals patterns of egg predation in small pelagic fish
MEPS 741:113-125 | Full text in pdf format

Garrido S, Albo-Puigserver M, Moyano M
REVIEW: Larval trophic ecology of small pelagic fishes: a review of recent advances and pathways to fill remaining knowledge gaps
MEPS 741:127-143 | Full text in pdf format

Jacobson KC, Marcogliese DJ, MacKenzie K
REVIEW: Parasites of small pelagics reflect their role in marine ecosystems
MEPS 741:145-167 | Full text in pdf format

Maathuis MAM, Couperus B, van der Molen J, Poos JJ, Tulp I, Sakinan S
Resolving the variability in habitat use by juvenile small pelagic fish in a major tidal system by continuous echosounder measurements
MEPS 741:169-187 | Full text in pdf format

Thorvaldsen KG, Neuenfeldt S, Mariani P, Nielsen JR
Hiding in plain sight: predator avoidance behaviour of mesopelagic Maurolicus muelleri during foraging
MEPS 741:189-202 | Full text in pdf format

Berg F, Seljestad G, Folkvord A
Growth of spring- and autumn-spawned larvae of Atlantic herring Clupea harengus: a long-term experiment mimicking seasonal light conditions
MEPS 741:203-216 | Full text in pdf format

van der Kooij J, McKeown N, Campanella F, Boyra G, Doray M, Santos Mocoroa M, Fernandes da Silva J, Huret M
Northward range expansion of Bay of Biscay anchovy into the English Channel
MEPS 741:217-236 | Full text in pdf format

Ferreira ASA, Neuheimer AB
Estimating a thermal constant of spawning to explain spawning time of Pacific herring Clupea pallasii across space and time
MEPS 741:237-249 | Full text in pdf format

Rooper CN, Boldt JL, Cleary J, Peña MA, Thompson M, Grinnell M
Evaluating factors affecting the distribution and timing of Pacific herring Clupea pallasii spawn in British Columbia
MEPS 741:251-269 | Full text in pdf format

Nishikawa H, Tsujino H, Nishikawa S, Nakayama SI, Nakano H, Sugiyama T, Ishikawa Y
Long-term comparison between the Japanese sardine Sardinops melanostictus stock level and simulated zooplankton density around the Kuroshio region
MEPS 741:271-287 | Full text in pdf format

Teles-Machado A, Plecha SM, Peliz A, Garrido S
Anomalous ocean currents and European anchovy dispersal in the Iberian ecosystem
MEPS 741:289-300 | Full text in pdf format

Takahashi M, Higuchi T, Shirai K, Ito Si, Yoda M
Interdecadal variabilities in growth and temperature trajectories of Trachurus japonicus juveniles: 1960s-1970s versus 2000s-2010s
MEPS 741:301-313 | Full text in pdf format

Ferreira A, Brito AC, Costa JL, Brotas V, Teles-Machado A, Garrido S
Anchovy on the rise: Investigating environmental drivers of recruitment strength in the northern Canary Current
MEPS 741:315-330 | Full text in pdf format