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Conservation of migratory fishes in freshwater ecosystems
Peter B. McIntyre,
Catherine Reidy Liermann,
Evan Childress,
Ellen J. Hamann,
J. Derek Hogan,
Stephanie Januchowski-Hartley,
Aaron A. Koning,
Thomas M. Neeson,
Daniel L. Oele,
Brenda M. Pracheil
Conservation of Freshwater Fishes, Pages: 324 - 360
Swansea University Author: Stephanie Januchowski-Hartley
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DOI (Published version): 10.1017/CBO9781139627085.012
Abstract
Migratory fishes are natural wonders. For many people, the term migratory fish evokes images of salmon audaciously jumping at waterfalls as they return to their own riverine birthplace to spawn after years of growth in the ocean, but freshwater fishes actually show a broad spectrum of migration stra...
| Published in: | Conservation of Freshwater Fishes |
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| ISBN: | 9781139627085 |
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Cambridge University Press
2015
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50321 |
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| Abstract: |
Migratory fishes are natural wonders. For many people, the term migratory fish evokes images of salmon audaciously jumping at waterfalls as they return to their own riverine birthplace to spawn after years of growth in the ocean, but freshwater fishes actually show a broad spectrum of migration strategies. Migratory fishes include small species–three-spined sticklebacks that spawn in coastal streams around the northern Pacific and gobies that move from the ocean into tropical island streams by climbing waterfalls (McDowall, 1988)–as well as some of the largest freshwater fishes in the world, such as the Mekong dog-eating catfish and the Chinese paddlefish (Stone, 2007). Aside from migratory habits, these species have few shared characteristics; they encompass numerous evolutionary lineages, enormous differences in life history, and every possible direction and distance of migration. Biologists treat migratory freshwater fishes as a functional group because their life-history strategy revolves around long-distance movement between ecosystems in a perilous quest to take advantage of both high-quality breeding sites and bountiful feeding areas. As humans have physically blocked fish migrations, degraded breeding and feeding grounds and relentlessly harvested migrants for their flesh and roe, many populations have declined or been extirpated. This chapter will provide an overview of fundamental and applied research that is helping to guide efforts to conserve migratory freshwater fishes. For practical purposes, we define migratory behaviour as the synchronized movement of a substantial proportion of a population between |
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| Keywords: |
fish, migration, connectivity, fresh waters |
| College: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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324 |
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360 |