Trophic ecology of blue whiting in the Barents Sea
<qd> Dolgov, A. V., Johannesen, E., Heino, M., and Olsen, E. 2010. Trophic ecology of blue whiting in the Barents Sea. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 67: 000–000. </qd>Blue whiting ( Micromesistius poutassou ) are distributed throughout the North Atlantic, including the Norwegian and...
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fthighwire:oai:open-archive.highwire.org:icesjms:fsp254v1 2023-05-15T15:38:16+02:00 Trophic ecology of blue whiting in the Barents Sea Dolgov, Andrey V. Johannesen, Edda Heino, Mikko Olsen, Erik 2009-11-23 22:43:25.0 text/html http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/fsp254v1 https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsp254 en eng Oxford University Press http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/fsp254v1 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsp254 Copyright (C) 2009, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea/Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer Article TEXT 2009 fthighwire https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsp254 2013-05-26T22:26:20Z <qd> Dolgov, A. V., Johannesen, E., Heino, M., and Olsen, E. 2010. Trophic ecology of blue whiting in the Barents Sea. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 67: 000–000. </qd>Blue whiting ( Micromesistius poutassou ) are distributed throughout the North Atlantic, including the Norwegian and Barents Seas. In recent years, both abundance and distribution of blue whiting in the Barents Sea have increased dramatically. Therefore, to evaluate the trophic impact of this increase, we analysed the diet of the species. In all, 54 prey species or taxa were identified, the main prey being krill. However, the diet varied geographically and ontogenetically: the proportion of fish in the diet was higher in large blue whiting and in the north of the range. Blue whiting overlap geographically with other pelagic species at the edge of their distribution in the Barents Sea, with juvenile herring in the south, with polar cod in the north, and with capelin in the northeast. The overlap in diet between blue whiting and these other pelagic species ranged from 6 to 86% and was greatest with capelin in areas where both species feed on hyperiids and krill. The importance of blue whiting as prey for predatory fish was highest in the areas of greatest abundance, but overall, blue whiting were seemingly unimportant as prey of piscivorous fish in the Barents Sea. Text Barents Sea North Atlantic polar cod HighWire Press (Stanford University) Barents Sea ICES Journal of Marine Science 67 3 483 493 |
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<qd> Dolgov, A. V., Johannesen, E., Heino, M., and Olsen, E. 2010. Trophic ecology of blue whiting in the Barents Sea. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 67: 000–000. </qd>Blue whiting ( Micromesistius poutassou ) are distributed throughout the North Atlantic, including the Norwegian and Barents Seas. In recent years, both abundance and distribution of blue whiting in the Barents Sea have increased dramatically. Therefore, to evaluate the trophic impact of this increase, we analysed the diet of the species. In all, 54 prey species or taxa were identified, the main prey being krill. However, the diet varied geographically and ontogenetically: the proportion of fish in the diet was higher in large blue whiting and in the north of the range. Blue whiting overlap geographically with other pelagic species at the edge of their distribution in the Barents Sea, with juvenile herring in the south, with polar cod in the north, and with capelin in the northeast. The overlap in diet between blue whiting and these other pelagic species ranged from 6 to 86% and was greatest with capelin in areas where both species feed on hyperiids and krill. The importance of blue whiting as prey for predatory fish was highest in the areas of greatest abundance, but overall, blue whiting were seemingly unimportant as prey of piscivorous fish in the Barents Sea. |
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