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Spring algal bloom and larval fish survival

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  • Trevor Platt

    (Bedford Institute of Oceanography)

  • Csar Fuentes-Yaco

    (Dalhousie University)

  • Kenneth T. Frank

    (Bedford Institute of Oceanography)

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The different factors that influence the prevalent decline in fish stocks are currently subject to urgent and intense scrutiny. Here we combine the use of remote-sensing satellite data with a long-term data set of haddock recruitment off the eastern continental shelf of Nova Scotia, Canada, to show that the survival of the larval fish depends on the timing of the local spring bloom of phytoplankton. This link has been suspected for more than 100 years, but its verification has had to wait for technology with sufficient spatial and temporal resolution.

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  • Trevor Platt & Csar Fuentes-Yaco & Kenneth T. Frank, 2003. "Spring algal bloom and larval fish survival," Nature, Nature, vol. 423(6938), pages 398-399, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:423:y:2003:i:6938:d:10.1038_423398b
    DOI: 10.1038/423398b
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    1. Brewin, Robert J.W. & Sathyendranath, Shubha & Hirata, Takafumi & Lavender, Samantha J. & Barciela, Rosa M. & Hardman-Mountford, Nick J., 2010. "A three-component model of phytoplankton size class for the Atlantic Ocean," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 221(11), pages 1472-1483.
    2. Timothy B Grabowski & Vilhjálmur Thorsteinsson & Bruce J McAdam & Guđrún Marteinsdóttir, 2011. "Evidence of Segregated Spawning in a Single Marine Fish Stock: Sympatric Divergence of Ecotypes in Icelandic Cod?," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 6(3), pages 1-9, March.
    3. Platt, Trevor & White, George N. & Zhai, Li & Sathyendranath, Shubha & Roy, Shovonlal, 2009. "The phenology of phytoplankton blooms: Ecosystem indicators from remote sensing," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 220(21), pages 3057-3069.

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