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Online: ISSN 1616-1599

Print: ISSN 0171-8630

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps

Small pelagic fish: new research frontiers (Jul 30, 2024)

Editors: Myron Peck, Ignacio Catalán, Susana Garrido, Ryan Rykaczewski, Rebecca Asch, Jan McDowell, Elliott Hazen, Isaak Kaplan

Organizers/Symposium conveners: Myron Peck, Ignacio Catalán, Susana Garrido, Ryan Rykaczewski, Akinori Takasuka

Small pelagic fish (SPF) account for more than 30% by weight of the total landings of capture fisheries around the world and are crucial for global food security. SPF also play an important role in the transfer of energy in food webs through mid-trophic levels, so understanding processes affecting the dynamics of their populations, their role in marine ecosystems and how these shape robust management practices continues to be a high priority.

 

Substantial progress continues to be made on understanding the drivers and dynamics of SPF in marine ecosystems. The integration of numerical models with ever-growing data from monitoring efforts and stock assessments has enabled more comprehensive consideration of hypotheses describing SPF population variability. Additionally, the rapid development of new methods such as eDNA, machine learning, and genome analysis to ascertain population structure can offer new insight to long-standing questions. This TS includes contributions from the 2022 international (ICES, PICES, FAO) symposium on “Small Pelagic Fish: New Frontiers in Science for Sustainable Management” and highlight the state-of-the-art in these and other topics related to the ecology and sustainable management of SPF.

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Introduction Peck MA, Catalán IA, Garrido S, Rykaczewski RR, Asch RG, McDowell JR, Hazen EL, Kaplan IC Small pelagic fish: new frontiers in ecological researchopen accessPages 1-6DOI: 10.3354/meps14648Review Ruzicka J, Chiaverano L, Coll M, Garrido S, Tam J, Murase H, Robinson K, Romagnoni G, Shannon L, Silva A, Szalaj D, Watari S The role of small pelagic fish in diverse ecosystems: knowledge gleaned from food-web modelsopen accessPages 7-27DOI: 10.3354/meps14513Research Article Luján C, Oliveros-Ramos R, Barrier N, Leadley P, Shin YJ Key species and indicators revealed by an uncertainty analysis of the marine ecosystem model OSMOSEPages 29-46DOI: 10.3354/meps14465Research Article Wells BK, Santora JA, Bizzarro JJ, Billings A, Brodeur RD, Daly EA, Field JC, Richerson KE, Thorson JT Trophoscapes of predatory fish reveal biogeographic structuring of spatial dietary overlap and inform fisheries bycatch patternsPages 47-70DOI: 10.3354/meps14319Research Article Gunther KM, Baker MR, Aydin KY Using predator diets to infer forage fish distribution and assess responses to climate variability in the eastern Bering SeaPages 71-99DOI: 10.3354/meps14389Research Article Fonseca P, Barata M, Castanho S, Pousão-Ferreira P, Garrido S Effect of diet composition and temperature on the gastric evacuation rate of European sardine: implication for egg predation estimatesopen accessPages 101-112DOI: 10.3354/meps14445Research Article Veríssimo A, Fonseca P, Garrido S Molecular barcoding reveals patterns of egg predation in small pelagic fishPages 113-125DOI: 10.3354/meps14498Review Garrido S, Albo-Puigserver M, Moyano M Larval trophic ecology of small pelagic fishes: a review of recent advances and pathways to fill remaining knowledge gapsPages 127-143DOI: 10.3354/meps14543Review Jacobson KC, Marcogliese DJ, MacKenzie K Parasites of small pelagics reflect their role in marine ecosystemsPages 145-167DOI: 10.3354/meps14529Research Article Maathuis MAM, Couperus B, van der Molen J, Poos JJ, Tulp I, Sakinan S Resolving the variability in habitat use by juvenile small pelagic fish in a major tidal system by continuous echosounder measurementsopen accessPages 169-187DOI: 10.3354/meps14368Research Article Thorvaldsen KG, Neuenfeldt S, Mariani P, Nielsen JR Hiding in plain sight: predator avoidance behaviour of mesopelagic Maurolicus muelleri during foragingPages 189-202DOI: 10.3354/meps14424Research Article Berg F, Seljestad G, Folkvord A Growth of spring- and autumn-spawned larvae of Atlantic herring Clupea harengus: a long-term experiment mimicking seasonal light conditionsopen accessPages 203-216DOI: 10.3354/meps14521Research Article van der Kooij J, McKeown N, Campanella F, Boyra G, Doray M, Santos Mocoroa M, Fernandes da Silva J, Huret M Northward range expansion of Bay of Biscay anchovy into the English Channelopen accessPages 217-236DOI: 10.3354/meps14603Research Article Ferreira ASA, Neuheimer AB Estimating a thermal constant of spawning to explain spawning time of Pacific herring Clupea pallasii across space and timePages 237-249DOI: 10.3354/meps14569Research Article Rooper CN, Boldt JL, Cleary J, Pena MA, Thompson M, Grinnell M Evaluating factors affecting the distribution and timing of Pacific herring Clupea pallasii spawn in British Columbiaopen accessPages 251-269DOI: 10.3354/meps14274Research Article Nishikawa H, Tsujino H, Nishikawa S, Nakayama SI, Nakano H, Sugiyama T, Ishikawa Y Long-term comparison between the Japanese sardine Sardinops melanostictus stock level and simulated zooplankton density around the Kuroshio regionopen accessPages 271-287DOI: 10.3354/meps14622Research Article Teles-Machado A, Plecha SM, Peliz A, Garrido S Anomalous ocean currents and European anchovy dispersal in the Iberian ecosystemPages 289-300DOI: 10.3354/meps14526Research Article Takahashi M, Higuchi T, Shirai K, Ito Si, Yoda M Interdecadal variabilities in growth and temperature trajectories of Trachurus japonicus juveniles: 1960s-1970s versus 2000s-2010sPages 301-313DOI: 10.3354/meps14557Research Article Ferreira A, Brito AC, Costa JL, Brotas V, Teles-Machado A, Garrido S Anchovy on the rise: Investigating environmental drivers of recruitment strength in the northern Canary Currentopen accessPages 315-330DOI: 10.3354/meps14594

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