Large-scale range expansion and variability in ommastrephid squid populations: a review of environmental links

• Main Author: Rodhouse, Paul G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Scripps Institute of Oceanography 2008
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Zoology; Ecology and Environment; Hake; Pacific; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/11608/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/11608/1/Vol_49_Rodhouse_web.pdf; http://calcofi.org/publications/calcofireports/v49/Vol_49_Rodhouse_web.pdf

Over the last four decades, several ommastrephid squid stocks have shown rapid expansion and contraction, driving highly variable and sometimes boom and bust fisheries. These include Illex illecebrosus in the northwest Atlantic Ocean, I. argentinus in the southwest Atlantic Ocean, Todarodes pacificu...