Social learning and life skills training for hatchery reared fish

With the stress placed on our natural resources, many fisheries increasingly rely on restocking from hatchery-reared sources in an attempt to maintain commercially viable populations. However, the mortality rates of hatchery-reared fishes during the period directly following release are very high. T...

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Published in:Journal of Fish Biology
Main Authors: Brown, C, Laland, Kevin Neville
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2001
Subjects:
social learning
restocking
hatchery
life skills
training
SALMON ONCORHYNCHUS-KISUTCH
ACQUIRED PREDATOR RECOGNITION
GUPPIES POECILIA-RETICULATA
JUVENILE RAINBOW-TROUT
CORAL-REEF FISH
ATLANTIC SALMON
POPULATION DIFFERENCES
ANTIPREDATOR BEHAVIOR
CULTURAL TRANSMISSION
REARING ENVIRONMENTS
Atlantic salmon
Online Access:https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/social-learning-and-life-skills-training-for-hatchery-reared-fish(03e936a4-fc96-4674-b3df-eb1c70db7c5e).html
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2001.tb02354.x
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0034753861&partnerID=8YFLogxK
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Summary:With the stress placed on our natural resources, many fisheries increasingly rely on restocking from hatchery-reared sources in an attempt to maintain commercially viable populations. However, the mortality rates of hatchery-reared fishes during the period directly following release are very high. The successful development of restocking pro.-rams is consequently dependent upon production and release strategies that lead to improved migratory, antipredator and feeding behaviour in hatchery fish. While relevant individual experience prior to release might improve performance, social learning potentially provides a process whereby fish can acquire locally adaptive behaviour rapidly and efficiently. It is now well over a decade since Suboski & Templeton (1989) raised the possibility of using social learning processes to improve the post-release survival of hatchery-reared fishes. This period has witnessed considerable progress in the understanding of how social learning operates in fish populations. We review new methods and recent findings that suggest how social learning, protocols could realistically be applied on a large scale to enhance the viability of hatchery fish prior to their release into the wild. We also suggest a practical pre-release training protocol that may be applied at the hatchery level. (C) 2001 The Fisheries Society of the British Isles.

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