Dendrogaster (Crustacea: Ascothoracida) parasitic in Alaskan and eastern Canadian Leptasterias (Asteroidea)

1986 ◽  
Vol 64 (6) ◽  
pp. 1249-1253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark J. Grygier

The ascothoracid parasite Dendrogaster is reported from four boreal localities in the Western Hemisphere. Dendrogaster elegans Wagin infests the sea star Leptasterias polaris in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; the eastern specimens have a shorter brood sac middle piece. A lectotype is selected and described for D. arctica Korschelt from L. groenlandica in the eastern Bering Sea; Siberian specimens previously assigned to this species differ from the type in many details. Immature specimens of an unidentified Dendrogaster species have been found in L. floccosa from the Davis Strait.

2011 ◽  
Vol 68 (6) ◽  
pp. 1138-1146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward V. Farley ◽  
Alexander Starovoytov ◽  
Svetlana Naydenko ◽  
Ron Heintz ◽  
Marc Trudel ◽  
...  

Abstract Farley, E. V., Starovoytov, A., Naydenko, S., Heintz, R., Trudel, M., Guthrie, C., Eisner, L., Guyon, J. R. 2011. Implications of a warming eastern Bering Sea for Bristol Bay sockeye salmon. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 68: 1138–1146. Overwinter survival of Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus sp.) is believed to be a function of size and energetic status they gain during their first summer at sea. We test this notion for Bristol Bay sockeye salmon (O. nerka), utilizing data from large-scale fisheries and oceanographic surveys conducted during mid-August to September 2002–2008 and from February to March 2009. The new data presented in this paper demonstrate size-selective mortality for Bristol Bay sockeye salmon between autumn and their first winter at sea. Differences in the seasonal energetic signatures for lipid and protein suggest that these fish are not starving, but instead the larger fish caught during winter apparently are utilizing energy stores to minimize predation. Energetic status of juvenile sockeye salmon was also strongly related to marine survival indices and years with lower energetic status apparently are a function of density-dependent processes associated with high abundance of juvenile sockeye salmon. Based on new information regarding eastern Bering Sea ecosystem productivity under a climate-warming scenario, we hypothesize that sustained increases in spring and summer sea temperatures may negatively affect energetic status of juvenile sockeye salmon, potentially resulting in increased overwinter mortality.


Harmful Algae ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 13-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masafumi Natsuike ◽  
Hiroshi Oikawa ◽  
Kohei Matsuno ◽  
Atsushi Yamaguchi ◽  
Ichiro Imai

Author(s):  
Christopher N Rooper ◽  
Ivonne Ortiz ◽  
Albert J Hermann ◽  
Ned Laman ◽  
Wei Cheng ◽  
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Abstract Climate-related distribution shifts for marine species are, in general, amplified in northern latitudes. The objective of this study was to predict future distributions of commercially important species in the eastern Bering Sea under six climate scenarios, by incorporating predictions of future oceanographic conditions. We used species distribution modelling to determine potential distribution changes in four time periods (2013–2017, 2030–2039, 2060–2069, and 2090-2099) relative to 1982–2012 for 16 marine fish and invertebrates. Most species were predicted to have significant shifts in the centre of gravity of the predicted abundance, the area occupied, and the proportion of the predicted abundance found in the standard bottom trawl survey area. On average the shifts were modest, averaging 35.2 km (ranging from 1 to 202 km). There were significant differences in the predicted trend for distribution metrics among climate scenarios, with the most extensive changes in distribution resulting from Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 climate scenarios. The variability in distributional shifts among years and climate scenarios was high, although the magnitudes were low. This study provides a basis for understanding where fish populations might expand or contract in future years. This will provide managers’ information that can help guide appropriate actions under warming conditions.


1957 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ford Wilke ◽  
Karl W. Kenyon

2015 ◽  
Vol 138 ◽  
pp. 475-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan I. Richar ◽  
Gordon H. Kruse ◽  
Enrique Curchitser ◽  
Albert J. Hermann

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