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Chapter 3. Recruitment Variability

  1. Tore Jakobsen2,
  2. Michael J. Fogarty3,
  3. Bernard A. Megrey4,
  4. Erlend Moksness5
  1. Edward D. Houde

Published Online: 27 MAY 2009

DOI: 10.1002/9781444312133.ch3

Book Title

Fish Reproductive Biology: Implications for Assessment and Management

Fish Reproductive Biology: Implications for Assessment and Management

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How to Cite

Houde, E. D. (2009) Recruitment Variability, in Fish Reproductive Biology: Implications for Assessment and Management (eds T. Jakobsen, M. J. Fogarty, B. A. Megrey and E. Moksness), Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444312133.ch3

Editor Information

  1. 2

    Institute of Marine Research, PO Box 1870 Nordnes, 5817 Bergen, Norway

  2. 3

    Northeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, 166 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA

  3. 4

    Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115, USA

  4. 5

    Institute of Marine Research, Flødevigen Marine Research Station, 4817 His, Arendal, Norway

Author Information

  1. University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, PO Box 38, Solomons, MD 20688, USA

Publication History

  1. Published Online: 27 MAY 2009
  2. Published Print: 3 APR 2009

ISBN Information

Print ISBN: 9781405121262

Online ISBN: 9781444312133

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Keywords:

  • recruitment variability;
  • new technologies, analytical methods and models;
  • causal factors of variability in fish recruitment;
  • Hjort and Critical Period hypothesis;
  • larval transport and retention mechanisms as recruitment variability controls;
  • Member-Vagrant or Larval Retention Area hypothesis of Iles and Sinclair;
  • linking physics and hydrography to biology;
  • microturbulence - increasing encounter rates between fish larvae and planktonic prey;
  • biological (trophodynamic) factors;
  • recruitment variability linked to life history strategy

Summary

This chapter contains sections titled:

  • Introduction

  • Theories and hypotheses

  • Physics and hydrography

  • Biological (trophodynamic) factors

  • Control and regulation: destabilizing and stabilizing processes

  • A nod to life histories: life styles and recruitment variability

  • Stock and recruitment

  • Modeling complex processes

  • Solving the ‘recruitment problem’

  • Conclusions

  • References

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