Why Herring Enters the Gulfs of the Barents Sea (Prichiny Zakhoda Seldi v Zalivy Barentseva Morya)

Herring enter gulfs regularly, depending upon conditions of the medium. The fish inhabits waters with temperatures above 2C. Only young herring, up to two years old, may occur in colder waters. Large schools of herring may enter gulfs in summer, autumn and winter in cold years when older age groups...

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Main Author: Shutova-Korzh,I. V.
Other Authors: NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE WASHINGTON D C
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1970
Subjects:
Anatomy and Physiology
Biological Oceanography
(*FISHES
*ARCTIC OCEAN)
GULFS
USSR
MARINE BIOLOGY
PERIODIC VARIATIONS
CLIMATE
TEMPERATURE
DISTRIBUTION
AGING(PHYSIOLOGY)
BARENTS SEA
TRANSLATIONS
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Barents Sea
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0724153
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Summary:Herring enter gulfs regularly, depending upon conditions of the medium. The fish inhabits waters with temperatures above 2C. Only young herring, up to two years old, may occur in colder waters. Large schools of herring may enter gulfs in summer, autumn and winter in cold years when older age groups of the fish are concentrated east of the Kola meridian. Herring enter gulfs and gubas periodically, the usual cycle being 11 years. If temperature conditions for wintering are better in open water than in gulfs, the herring remain in the open sea. In warm years young herring enters the Barents Sea in autumn, from November to December, but in cold years during later months, from December to March. In intermediate years, young herring enter the sea in autumn and winter. The distribution pattern of herring in the Barents Sea has been investigated mainly by analyzing the stomach contents of cod. As a result, the pattern characterizes, to a degree, the distribution of cod. Trans. of Polyarnyi Nauchno-Issledovatelskii Institut Morskogo Rybnogo Khozyaistva i Okeanografii. Trudy (USSR) n12 p87-100 1968, by M. Slessers.

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