Long-term stability of Sphyrium lumpi abundance in beaked redfish Sebastes mentella of the Irminger Sea and its use as biological marker

• Published in: Parasitology Research
• Main Authors: Klapper, Regina, Bernreuther, Matthias, Wischnewski, Julia, Klimpel, Sven
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Text; ddc:570; biological marker; long-term parasite abundance; North Atlantic; parasitic copepods; stock discrimination; zero-inflated models; Irminger Sea; Sebastes mentella; Copepods
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-017-5433-y; https://www.openagrar.de/receive/openagrar_mods_00027164; https://www.openagrar.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/openagrar_derivate_00002942/dn058476.pdf

The main commercial fish species in the Irminger Sea, the beaked redfish Sebastes mentella, is commonly infected with the copepod Sphyrion lumpi. This ectoparasite is often used as a biological marker for stock discrimination to evaluate the still-debated metapopulation structure of beaked redfish....