Recruitment variability of small pelagic fish populations in the Kuroshio-Oyashio transition region of the Western North

• Main Author: Yoshiro Watanabe
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: climate change; Japanese sardine; Japanese anchovy; Pacific saury; synchronous changes; Pacific; Oyashio; aleutian low; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.543.2214; http://journal.nafo.int/41/watanabe/17-watanabe.pdf

Climatic and ecosystem changes in the transition region between the subarctic Oyashio and the subtropical Kuroshio Extension fronts may be the key to understanding recruitment variability of small pelagic fish populations in the Pacific waters off Japan. The transition region is characterized by com...