Response of individual shoaling Atlantic cod to ocean currents on the northeast Newfoundland Shelf

• Main Authors: J. S. Wroblewskia, Bruce G. Nolana, George A. Roseb, Brad Deyoungc
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Atlantic cod; Gadus morhua; Swimming behavior; Current transport; Newfoundland Shelf; Northeast Newfoundland Shelf; atlantic cod; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.485.5804; http://www.physics.mun.ca/~bdeyoung/wroblewski_fisheries_2000.pdf

The movements of sonically-tagged Atlantic cod swimming within a large (80,000 mt) shoal of post-spawning fish on the northeast Newfoundland Shelf were related to the acoustically determined position of the shoal and event structure in the local ocean currents. For the first several days of the stud...