Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-75dct Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-05-20T22:22:26.791Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Analysis Of Condition and Swimming Performance in Juveniles of White Sea Bream, Diplodus Vulgaris

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

S. Planes ,
O. Hertel  and
J.-Y. Jouvenel
S. Planes
Affiliation:
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes - URA CNRS 1453, Laboratoire d'Ichtyoécologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne, Université de Perpignan, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France
O. Hertel
Affiliation:
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes - URA CNRS 1453, Laboratoire d'Ichtyoécologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne, Université de Perpignan, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France
J.-Y. Jouvenel
Affiliation:
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes - URA CNRS 1453, Laboratoire d'Ichtyoécologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne, Université de Perpignan, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

A pilot study was conducted to follow condition and swimming performances over two months using three samples of 50 juveniles of white sea bream, Diplodus vulgaris. The initial result indicated that the weight-length relationship followed the model; W=5.2xl0-3L349. According to this relationship, condition indices were estimated for each individual as the observed weight related to the computed weight. Measures of swimming velocities realized in an artificial flume show variations through time with an increase and decrease directly correlated to condition indices. Maximum speed of an individual was measured at 12.3 cm s1. Analysis of environmental conditions indicated that the decrease of condition index and swimming performances was related to bad weather which induced turbid water in juvenile habitats.

Type
Short Communications
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 77 , Issue 3 , August 1997 , pp. 913 - 916
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1997

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Bhaud, M., Cha, J.H., Duchêne, J.C. & Nozais, C., 1993. Etudes en enceintes expérimentales: bilan et perspectives dans le cadre de la régulation des cycles de vie. Rapport Scientifiaue. Supplément Bulletin d'Information du Programme National sur le Déterminisme du Recrutement, 19, 49 pp.Google Scholar
Blaxter, J.H.S., 1969. Swimming speeds of fish. FAO Fisheries Report, no. 62, 2, 69–100.Google Scholar
Doherty, P.J. & Fowler, A.J., 1994. An empirical test of recruitment limitation in a coral reef fish. Science, New York, 263, 935–939.Google Scholar
Ehrlich, K.F., Blaxter, J.H.S. & Pemberton, R., 1976. Morphological and histological changes during the growth and starvation of herring and plaice larvae. Marine Biology, 35, 105–118.Google Scholar
Harmelin-Vivien, M.L., Harmelin, J.G. & Leboulleux, V., 1995. Microhabitat requirements for settlement of juvenile sparid fishes on Mediterranean rocky shores. Hydrobiologia, 301, 309–320.Google Scholar
McCormick, M.I. & Milicich, M.J., 1993. Late pelagic-stage goatfishes: distribution patterns and inferences on schooling behaviour. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 174, 15–42.Google Scholar
McCormick, M.I. & Molony, B.W., 1992. Effects of feeding history on the growth characteristics of a reef fish at settlement. Marine Biology, 114, 165–173.Google Scholar
Neilson, J.D., Perry, R.I., Valerio, P. & Waiwood, K.G., 1986. Condition of Atlantic cod Gadus morh.ua larvae after the transition to exogenous feeding: morphometrics, buoyancy and predator avoidance. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 32, 229–235.Google Scholar
Ricker, W.E., 1975. Computation and interpretation of biological statistics of fish populations. Bulletin. Fisheries Research Board of Canada, no. 191, 382 pp.Google Scholar
Setzler-Hamilton, E.M., Wright, D. A., Martin, F.D., Millsaps, C.V. & Whitlow, S.I., 1987. Analysis of nutritional condition and its use in predicting striped bass recruitment: field studies. In Tenth annual larval fish conference fed. R.D., Hoyt), pp. 115–128. Bethesda, Maryland: American Fisheries Society. [American Fisheries Society Symposium Series no. 2.]Google Scholar
Stahleberg, S. & Peckmann, P., 1987. The critical swimming speed of small teleost fish species in a flume. Archiv für Hydrobiologie, 110, 179–193.Google Scholar
Strasburg, D.W., 1959. An instance of natural mass mortality of larval frigate mackerel in the Hawaiian Islands. Journal du Conseil, 24, 255–263.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Suthers, I.M., 1992. The use of condition indices in larval fish. In Australian society for fish biology workshop on larval biology, Hobart, Australia, 20 August 1991, no. 15 (ed. D.A., Hancock), pp. 49–5 Canberra, Australia: Australian Government Publishing Service. [Bureau of Rural Resources, Canberra.]Google Scholar
Turnpenny, A.W.H., 1983. Swimming performance of juvenile sprat, Sprattus sprattus L., and herring, Clupea harengus L., at different salinities. Journal of Fish Biology, 23, 321–325.Google Scholar
Wardle, C.S., 1977. Effects of size on the swimming speeds of fish. In Scale effects in animal locomotion (ed. T.J., Pedley), pp. 299–313. London: Academic Press.Google Scholar