Bottom-up limits to Newfoundland capelin (Mallotus villosus) rebuilding: the euphausiid hypothesis

• Published in: ICES Journal of Marine Science
• Main Authors: Obradovich, Shannon G., Carruthers, Erin H., Rose, George A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2014
• Subjects: Original Articles; Labrador Shelf; Newfoundland; atlantic cod; Gadus morhua
• Online Access: http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/71/4/775; https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fst184

Capelin ( Mallotus villosus ) is the key forage fish species in the Newfoundland and Labrador Shelf ecosystem. Capelin stocks collapsed in the early 1990s, concurrent with declines in “northern” Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua . Neither has fully recovered yet. Changes in growth, condition, and behaviour...