Transport-driven seasonal abundance of pelagic fishes in the Chukchi Sea observed with seafloor-mounted echosounders

• Published in: ICES Journal of Marine Science
• Main Authors: Levine, R M, De Robertis, A, Grünbaum, D, Wilson, C D
• Other Authors: Wieczorek, Alina, North Pacific Research Board, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Office of Naval Research, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, University of Alaska Fairbanks, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Science Foundation
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2023
• Subjects: Ecology; Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Oceanography; Arctic; Chukchi Sea; Chukchi Shelf; Arctic cod; Boreogadus saida; Chukchi
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsad024; https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article-pdf/80/4/987/50384869/fsad024.pdf

Abstract Recent summer surveys of the northeastern Chukchi Sea found pelagic fishes were dominated by large numbers of age-0 Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida, Gadidae) and walleye pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus, Gadidae), while adult fishes were comparatively scarce. The source and fate of these young fis...