scholarly journals Individual Reproductive Success of Largemouth Bass and Smallmouth Bass Subjected to Different Components of Competitive Angling Events

2009 ◽  
Vol 138 (4) ◽  
pp. 818-825 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Siepker ◽  
Steven J. Cooke ◽  
David H. Wahl ◽  
David P. Philipp
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Success ◽  
Largemouth Bass ◽  
Smallmouth Bass

Black Bass Diversity: Multidisciplinary Science for Conservation

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Success ◽  
Parental Care ◽  
Largemouth Bass ◽  
Selective Breeding ◽  
Micropterus Salmoides ◽  
Smallmouth Bass ◽  
Relative Contribution ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Negative Impacts

<em>Abstract</em>.—Long-term studies in Ontario, Canada on Largemouth Bass <em>Micropterus salmoides</em> and Smallmouth Bass <em>M. dolomieu</em> have demonstrated that angling nesting males (both catch and harvest and catch and release) can have negative impacts on the reproductive success for the captured individual. They have also demonstrated that within a population, the male bass that provide the best and longest parental care for their offspring are the most capable of having the greatest relative contribution to the year-class. Furthermore, those males are also the most aggressive toward potential brood predators and, hence, the most vulnerable to angling. Based on those relationships, we postulated that angling in general, and especially angling for nesting bass, results in selection against aggressive individuals in a population, and as a result, the angled population evolves to become less aggressive, containing males with diminished parental care attributes, an example of fisheries-induced evolution (FIE). We recognize, however, that some change towards less aggressive behaviors may also result from learning and phenotypic plasticity. Controlled, long-term selective breeding experiments over 30+ years have, however, documented the heritability of vulnerability of bass to angling and, hence, the potential for selection to act on that trait. Reproductive competition experiments further demonstrated that the highly vulnerable strain of bass produced in those selective breeding experiments indeed had greater reproductive success than the less vulnerable strain. Because angling for Largemouth Bass has been occurring for decades, we also postulated that there should be some evidence in the wild of this FIE. In fact, we did find that the level of vulnerability to angling of nesting male Largemouth Bass in lakes that have had little to no exploitation was significantly greater than that observed for nesting males in moderately and heavily angled populations.

The Impact of Catch-and-Release Angling on the Reproductive Success of Smallmouth Bass and Largemouth Bass

1997 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 557-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
David P. Philipp ◽  
C. Anna Toline ◽  
Mark F. Kubacki ◽  
David B. F. Philipp ◽  
Frank J. S. Phelan
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Success ◽  
Largemouth Bass ◽  
Smallmouth Bass ◽  
Catch And Release ◽  
The Impact

Respiratory and Circulatory Responses to Hypoxia in Largemouth Bass and Smallmouth Bass: Implications for “Live-Release” Angling Tournaments

2003 ◽  
Vol 132 (6) ◽  
pp. 1065-1075 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marosh Furimsky ◽  
Steven J. Cooke ◽  
Cory D. Suski ◽  
Yuxiang Wang ◽  
Bruce L. Tufts
Keyword(s):  
Largemouth Bass ◽  
Smallmouth Bass

Spatial and temporal distributions of smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) nests in Lake Opeongo, Ontario

1997 ◽  
Vol 54 (9) ◽  
pp. 2007-2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
C Rejwan ◽  
B J Shuter ◽  
M S Ridgway ◽  
N C Collins
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Success ◽  
Littoral Zone ◽  
Nest Site ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Smallmouth Bass ◽  
Competitive Interactions ◽  
Micropterus Dolomieu ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Distributions ◽  
Nest Site Choice ◽  
Habitat Variables

Smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) nests were patchily distributed within the littoral zone of Lake Opeongo at two spatial scales (1 km and 100 m shoreline segments). Nest locations were recorded by snorkelling along 155 and 6.3 km of littoral zone over 4 and 11 years, respectively. The degree of patchiness was greater and occurred more consistently at the 1-km than at the 100-m spatial scale. However, the degree of patchiness was not significantly affected by 200% differences in spawning population size, implying that competitive interactions did not strongly influence nest locations over the study period. High-density nesting areas remained stationary between years at the 1-km and 100-m scales. This suggests that habitat variables having stationary spatial characteristics, influence nest site choice. Since the locations of nest patches are less stationary and less consistent among 100-m than among 1-km scale sites, influential habitat variables at the 100-m scale are either less important to the locations of nests or less stationary from year-to-year in their effects on nest distributions. If stationary nest patches are typical of spawning smallmouth bass in lakes, permanent protection of known patch locations could enhance their reproductive success.

Effects of pulp and paper mill effluents on reproductive success of largemouth bass

2003 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria S. Sepúlveda ◽  
Brian P. Quinn ◽  
Nancy D. Denslow ◽  
Stewart E. Holm ◽  
Timothy S. Gross
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Success ◽  
Largemouth Bass ◽  
Paper Mill ◽  
Pulp And Paper ◽  
Pulp And Paper Mill ◽  
Paper Mill Effluents

Lethality of Low pH and Al to Early Life Stages of Six Fish Species Inhabiting PreCambrian Shield Waters in Ontario

1989 ◽  
Vol 46 (7) ◽  
pp. 1188-1202 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. E. Holtze ◽  
N. J. Hutchinson
Keyword(s):  
Largemouth Bass ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Life Stage ◽  
Early Life Stage ◽  
Low Ph ◽  
Smallmouth Bass ◽  
Life Stages ◽  
White Sucker ◽  
Lake Whitefish ◽  
Early Life Stages

Lethality of low pH and Al to egg and fry stages of common shiner (Notropis cornutus), white sucker (Catostomus commersoni), walleye (Stizostedion vitreum), lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis), smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieui), and largemouth bass (M. salmoides) was determined in a series of laboratory tests in soft (Ca = 4.0 mg/L) water. Low pH was lethal to cleavage eggs in the first 4 d of exposure, to eyed eggs in the immediate prehatch period and to fry following their transition to branchial respiration. Early life stage response to Al was determined by their sensitivity to low pH. Al prolonged survival of cleavage eggs at pH = 4.2, was detrimental to eyed eggs and fry at pH 4.4–5.4 and was most lethal within 0.3 pH units of the pH which was lethal in the absence of Al. In situ distribution of four of the six species was adequately explained by lethality of low pH alone to cleavage eggs or fry. Sensitivity to low pH and Al produced estimates of pH > 5.9 (common shiner), pH > 5.4 (lake whitefish, white sucker, walleye), and pH > 5.1 (smallmouth and largemouth bass) for survival of early life stages in acidified waters.

Evidence of Reduced Reproductive Success of Nesting Largemouth Bass Sampled with Standard Electrofishing Procedures

2006 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 631-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Siepker ◽  
David H. Wahl ◽  
David P. Philipp ◽  
Kenneth G. Ostrand
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Success ◽  
Largemouth Bass
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