Tracing growth patterns in cod (Gadus morhua L.) using bioenergetic modelling.

ABSTRACT: Understanding individual growth in commercially exploited fish populations is key to successful stock assessment and informed ecosystem-based fisheries management. Traditionally, growth rates in marine fish are estimated using otolith age-readings in combination with age-length relationships from field samples, or tag-recapture field experiments. However, for some species, otolith-based approaches have been proven unreliable and tag-recapture experiments suffer from high working effort and costs as well as low recapture rates. An important alternative approach for estimating fish growth is represented by bioenergetic modelling which in addition to pure growth estimation can provide valuable insights into the processes leading to temporal growth changes resulting from environmental and rela

SUBMITTER: Funk S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10667610 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature