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  • Open Access
1,894 Views
20 Pages

25 December 2024

We used otolith chemistry to test and complement current hypotheses regarding habitat use and connectivity between Dissostichus mawsoni sub-populations in Area 48 of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR). S...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,026 Views
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The neotropical inland waters hold about 30% of the world’s fish species. South America, in particular, brings together two of the largest basins in the world: the Amazon and Plata Basin. These are long migratory corridors of thousands of kilom...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,946 Views
16 Pages

Otolith δ18O Composition as a Tracer of Yellowfin Tuna (Thunnus albacares) Origin in the Indian Ocean

  • Iraide Artetxe-Arrate,
  • Igaratza Fraile,
  • Jessica Farley,
  • Audrey M. Darnaude,
  • Naomi Clear,
  • David L. Dettman,
  • Campbell Davies,
  • Francis Marsac and
  • Hilario Murua

14 July 2021

Yellowfin tuna of the Indian Ocean is overfished, and a better understanding of the stock structure is needed to enable sustainable management. Here, otolith δ18O values of young-of-the-year fish from known nursery areas of the equatorial Indian Ocea...

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  • Open Access
1,187 Views
2 Pages

Your Past Condemns You: Trace Elements of a Marine Catfish in Two Periods in an Altered Tropical Bay

  • Taynara Pontes Franco,
  • Leonardo Caladrini Bruno,
  • Rafael C. C. Rocha,
  • Tatiana D. Saint Pierre and
  • Francisco Gerson Araújo

Changes in coastal environments are usually caused by anthropogenic activities such as habitat degradation and nonpoint source pollution. Such changes reduce the life quality of the living organisms in altered environments, decreasing biotic descript...

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  • Open Access
658 Views
19 Pages

Tracking the Migratory Life History of Brown Croaker (Miichthys miiuy) Through Otolith Microchemistry in the East China Sea

  • Jiarong Shen,
  • Zeyu Xiao,
  • Rijin Jiang,
  • Zhongya Xuan,
  • Yongdong Zhou,
  • Wenjia Li,
  • Haoran Wang,
  • Jian Yang and
  • Mingyuan Cui

29 October 2025

Brown croaker (Miichthys miiuy) is an economically, ecologically, and culturally important species in the East China Sea (ECS); however, populations of M. miiuy have declined in recent years due to climate change and high fishing intensity. Our limit...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,276 Views
19 Pages

Otolith Fingerprints and Tissue Stable Isotope Information Enable Allocation of Juvenile Fishes to Different Nursery Areas

  • Dario Vrdoljak,
  • Sanja Matić-Skoko,
  • Melita Peharda,
  • Hana Uvanović,
  • Krešimir Markulin,
  • Regina Mertz-Kraus and
  • Peter Grønkjær

4 May 2021

Integrated otolith chemistry and muscle tissue stable isotope analyses were performed to allocate juvenile Diplodus puntazzo and Diplodus vulgaris to nurseries in the Adriatic Sea. Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-M...

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  • Open Access
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1 Page

The mackerel (Scomber colias, Gmelin 1789) is a shoal-forming scombrid that inhabits the coastal waters of the Atlantic Ocean. The species can be found at depths of up to 300 m, but often inhabits the warmer, shallower waters of coastal regions in it...

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  • Open Access
373 Views
19 Pages

Population Structure of the European Seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) in the Atlantic Iberian Coastal Waters Inferred from Body Morphometrics and Otolith Shape Analyses

  • Rafael Gaio Kulzer,
  • Rodolfo Miguel Silva,
  • Ana Filipa Rocha,
  • João Soares Carrola,
  • Rosária Catarino Seabra,
  • Eduardo Rocha,
  • Karim Erzini and
  • Alberto Teodorico Correia

27 December 2025

The European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) is one of the most emblematic coastal fish species in the Northeast Atlantic, with high commercial value for fisheries and aquaculture, and importance for sport and recreational fishing. Despite its socio-e...

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  • Open Access
1,355 Views
15 Pages

26 August 2025

Freshwater ecosystems are increasingly stressed by drought and anthropogenic inputs that can increase specific conductivity (SPC) and pH; however, little is known about how harsher conditions affect fish. We evaluated how fish growth and diet composi...