Ocean Acidification Effects on Atlantic Cod Larval Survival and Recruitment to the Fished Population.

ABSTRACT: How fisheries will be impacted by climate change is far from understood. While some fish populations may be able to escape global warming via range shifts, they cannot escape ocean acidification (OA), an inevitable consequence of the dissolution of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in marine waters. How ocean acidification affects population dynamics of commercially important fish species is critical for adapting management practices of exploited fish populations. Ocean acidification has been shown to impair fish larvae's sensory abilities, affect the morphology of otoliths, cause tissue damage and cause behavioural changes. Here, we obtain first experimental mortality estimates for Atlantic cod larvae under OA and incorporate these effects into recruitment models. End-of-centur

SUBMITTER: Stiasny MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4995109 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature