The Fish Fauna of Gilbert Bay, Labrador: a Marine Protected Area in the Canadian Subarctic Coastal Zone
The Marine Protected Area in Gilbert Bay, Labrador is the first established in the subarctic coastal zone of eastern Canada. A standardized survey of the fish fauna of Gilbert Bay was initiated during the ice-free season of 2004 to provide baseline information on the fish present in water less than...
Published in: | Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom |
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Main Authors: | , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2007
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Online Access: | https://research.library.mun.ca/2016/ https://research.library.mun.ca/2016/1/The_fish_fauna_of_Gilbert_Bay_Labrador_a_marine_protected_area_in_the_Canadian_subarctic_coastal_zone.pdf https://research.library.mun.ca/2016/3/The_fish_fauna_of_Gilbert_Bay_Labrador_a_marine_protected_area_in_the_Canadian_subarctic_coastal_zone.pdf https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315407054136 |
Summary: | The Marine Protected Area in Gilbert Bay, Labrador is the first established in the subarctic coastal zone of eastern Canada. A standardized survey of the fish fauna of Gilbert Bay was initiated during the ice-free season of 2004 to provide baseline information on the fish present in water less than 15 m deep. Beach seines and gill-nets sampled three management zones within the bay which are afforded different levels of protection from human activity. The 25 species in 15 families recorded belong to five ecological guilds: (1) estuarine and marine fish resident in the bay; (2) anadromous species transiting the bay; (3) marine species which migrate into the bay to spawn; (4) offshore-spawning marine fish for which the bay is a nursery area; and (5) marine species which occasionally migrate into the bay to feed. Gilbert Bay lies in a transition zone between Arctic and coldtemperate biogeographical provinces, and its fish fauna is dissimilar from a cold-temperate fish assemblage described for Trinity Bay in eastern Newfoundland. |
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