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The first year in the life of estuarine fishes in the Middle Atlantic Bight / Kenneth W. Able and Michael P. Fahay. [electronic resource]
De Gruyter Rutgers University Press eBook Archive Pre-2000 Available online
De Gruyter Rutgers University Press eBook Archive Pre-2000- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Able, Kenneth W., 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Estuarine fishes--Mid-Atlantic Bight.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 342 p. ) ill., maps ;
- Edition:
- Reprint 2022
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The estuaries of the Middle Atlantic Bight - between Cape Cod and Cape Hatteras - provide nursery habitat for young fishes that inhabit much wider areas as adults. Their first year is the least understood phase of these fishes' life cycles: the time when they undergo great changes in morphology, diet, and habitat, and when they are particularly vulnerable to predators and environmental hazards. This is the first major work to describe the natural history of seventy important species of fishes that use estuaries during their critical early life stages.
- In the heart of the book, they describe the natural history of the eggs, larvae, and juveniles of seventy fish species, the most abundant and ecologically/economically important of 300+ species whose young are found in the Hudson and Delaware estuaries and smaller New Jersey rivers, estuaries, and bays. They stress the temporal and spatial distribution of eggs, larvae, and juveniles. They also analyze the patterns and subtle variations in the ecology and life history strategies of these species: their growth rates, where they find refuge from predators, how they survive their first winter, and how they share the estuarine habitat with so many other species.
- To aid in the identification of these young stages, the authors provide field character keys and elegant, detailed line drawings of juveniles.
- Contents:
- Ch. 1. Introduction
- Ch. 2. Study Area
- Ch. 3. Methodology
- Ch. 4. Characteristics of the Middle Atlantic Bight Ichthyofauna
- Ch. 5. Mustelus canis
- Ch. 6. Anguilla rostrata
- Ch. 7. Conger oceanicus
- Ch. 8. Alosa aestivalis
- Ch. 9. Alosa mediocris
- Ch. 10. Alosa pseudoharengus
- Ch. 11. Alosa sapidissima
- Ch. 12. Brevoortia tyrannus
- Ch. 13. Clupea harengus
- Ch. 14. Anchoa hepsetus
- Ch. 15. Anchoa mitchilli
- Ch. 16. Osmerus mordax
- Ch. 17. Synodus foetens
- Ch. 18. Microgadus tomcod
- Ch. 19. Pollachius virens
- Ch. 20. Hakes of the Genus Urophycis
- Ch. 21. Urophycis chuss
- Ch. 22. Urophycis regia
- Ch. 23. Urophycis tenuis
- Ch. 24. Ophidion marginatum
- Ch. 25. Opsanus tau.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-333) and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 1-9788-0251-X
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