The use of parasites as biological tags in population studies of herring (Clupea harengus L.) in the North Sea and to the north and west of Scotland

• Published in: ICES Journal of Marine Science
• Main Author: MacKenzie, K.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1985
• Subjects: Articles; Lamarck; Kattegat; Rothschild; Northeast Atlantic; Copepods
• Online Access: http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/42/1/33; https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/42.1.33

The metacercariae of the digeneans Cercaria pythionike Rothschild and Cercaria doricha Rothschild and the plerocerus of the cestode Lacistorhynchus sp. were used to trace recruitment migrations of herring ( Clupea harengus L.). The two digeneans have similar life cycles, with the gastropod mollusc T...