The marine copepod, Pseudocalanus elongatus, as a mediator between climate variability and fisheries in the Central Baltic Sea

被引:83
作者
Möllmann, C
Kornilovs, G
Fetter, M
Köster, FW
Hinrichsen, HH
机构
[1] Inst Marine Sci, D-24105 Kiel, Germany
[2] Danish Inst Fisheries Res, DK-2920 Charlottenlund, Denmark
[3] Latvian Fisheries Res Inst, LA-1007 Riga, Latvia
关键词
climate; fishery; herring diet and condition; Pseudocalanus elongatus; salinity;
D O I
10.1046/j.1365-2419.2003.00257.x
中图分类号
S9 [水产、渔业];
学科分类号
0908 ;
摘要
Pseudocalanus elongatus is a key species in the pelagic zone of the deep basins of the Central Baltic Sea. The copepod serves as a major food organism for larval as well as for adult, pelagic planktivorous fish. Large interannual fluctuations in the standing stock of P. elongatus have been attributed to significant changes in the hydrographic environment over the last two decades. In particular, the decreasing salinity in the Baltic deep basins, a result of a change in atmospheric forcing leading to an increase in rainfall since the 1980s and of a lack of pulses of saline water intrusions from the North Sea, was found to affect reproduction and maturation of the copepod. In parallel, dramatic changes in the weight-at-age of herring, one of the most important commercial fishes of the Baltic Sea, have been observed since the late 1980s. Using time-series on herring stomach contents, as well as length and weight, we provide evidence for a chain of events relating variability in climate, salinity and P. elongatus abundance to changes in diet and condition of herring in the Central Baltic Sea.
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页码:360 / 368
页数:9
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