Coastal fish farms are settlement sites for juvenile fish
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http://hdl.handle.net/10045/131465
Títol: | Coastal fish farms are settlement sites for juvenile fish |
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Autors: | Fernandez-Jover, Damian | Sanchez-Jerez, Pablo | Bayle-Sempere, Just T. | Arechavala-Lopez, Pablo | Martínez Rubio, Laura | López-Jiménez, José Ángel | Martínez-López, Francisco Javier |
Grups d'investigació o GITE: | Biología Marina |
Centre, Departament o Servei: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ciencias del Mar y Biología Aplicada |
Paraules clau: | Juvenile fish | Fatty acid | Biomarker | Zooplankton | Stomach content | Diet | Aquaculture impact |
Data de publicació: | 19-d’abril-2009 |
Editor: | Elsevier |
Citació bibliogràfica: | Marine Environmental Research. 2009, 68(2): 89-96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2009.04.006 |
Resum: | Two south-west Mediterranean fish farms were monitored over a period of 22 months to test if sea-cage fish farms act as settlement habitats for juvenile fish. Twenty juvenile fish species were found to settle at farms throughout the year. Fish assemblage composition varied markedly over time and was dependent on the spawning period for each species. The most abundant species were Oblada melanura, Atherina sp., Diplodus sargus, Boops boops and Liza aurata. Up to 3783 ± 1730 individuals/cage were found closely associated with the cages. Highest densities were observed during the warmer summer and autumn months. Zooplankton sampling and stomach content analyses of the most abundant species were done to assess prey availability, selectivity and diet overlap among species. Copepods were the main prey item for all juvenile fish species, irrespective of fish size. Ivlev’s Index indicated that food was not a limiting factor for juvenile fish at farms. Furthermore, food pellets from the farm affected the food chain by modifying the fatty acid profiles of farm-associated zooplankton and juveniles of L. aurata and O. melanura. These results show that aquaculture can directly influence the body composition of juvenile fish that recruit to sea-cage fish farms. |
Patrocinadors: | The study forms part of the ACUFISH project (Department of Marine Science and Applied Biology, University of Alicante) and was funded by Spanish Ministry of Science Grant MYCT-REN2003-00794. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/131465 |
ISSN: | 0141-1136 (Print) | 1879-0291 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.marenvres.2009.04.006 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipus: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Drets: | © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. |
Revisió científica: | si |
Versió de l'editor: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2009.04.006 |
Apareix a la col·lecció: | INV - BM - Artículos Científicos / Scientific Papers |
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