Trophic studies on the Okhotsk Sea herring in the 2000s (food composition, daily rations, assessment of consumption in the annual cycle)
Daily ration of the Okhotsk Sea herring is estimated as 3.9 % of the body weight in spring, 7.7 % in summer, 4.9 % in autumn, and 1.2 % in winter. Its mean annual consumption is assessed as 35.9 million t of prey, mainly zooplankton (97.3 % of the ration) including 15.86 · 106 t of euphausiids (43.0...
| Published in: | Izvestiya TINRO |
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| Main Authors: | , |
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| Language: | Russian |
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Transactions of the Pacific Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography
2016
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.26428/1606-9919-2016-185-185-193 https://doaj.org/article/60eaa4f97c924d139f13a7633348c1ee |
| Summary: | Daily ration of the Okhotsk Sea herring is estimated as 3.9 % of the body weight in spring, 7.7 % in summer, 4.9 % in autumn, and 1.2 % in winter. Its mean annual consumption is assessed as 35.9 million t of prey, mainly zooplankton (97.3 % of the ration) including 15.86 · 106 t of euphausiids (43.0 %), 15.16 · 106 t of copepods (41.1 %), and 2.7 · 106 t of amphipods (6.2 %). In total, 6.9 % of the Euphausia stock, 3.7 % of the Copepoda stock, 9.7 % of the Amphipoda stock, and 0.1 % of the Chaetognatha stock are grazed by herring annually. The herring consumption is on average 18.9 % of the total volume of food consumed by nekton in the epipelagic layer of the Okhotsk Sea. |
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