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Fishes of the Gulf of Maine
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The first part of the general report, dealing with the fishes was published in 1925, as Bulletin of the United States Bureau of FisherIes, and subsequent parts describing the plankton of the offshore waters of the Gulf and the physical Characteristics of its waters were published in 1926-27, as Part 2. as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
During the summer of 1912 the Bureau of Fisheries with the cooperation of the Museum of Com;arative Zoology of Harvard Un~vers~ty, cOInInenced an oceanographic and bIOlogIcal survey of the Gulf of Maine, with special reference to its fishes to its floating plants and animals (Plankton), to the physical and chemical state of its waters and to the circulation of the latter. Cruises ;ere made on the Fisheries schooner Grampu8 during the summers and autumns of 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915 and 1916, and during the winters and springs of 1913 and 1915. The work Was interrupted by the war, but was resumed with a cruise of the Fisheries steamer Albatross in the late winter and spring of 1920, and was continued by the Fisheries steamer Halcyon during the winter and spring of 1920-21, and the summers of 1921 and 1922. The first part of the general report, dealing with the fishes was published in 1925, as Bulletin ~o (Pt. 1) of the United States Bureau of FisherIes; 1 SUbsequent parts describing the plankton of the offshore waters of the Gulf and the physical Characteristics of its waters were published in 1926-27, as Part 2. The preparation of the section on the fishes was assigned originally to W. W. Welsh, who had gathered a large body of original observations on the growth, reproduction, diet, and other phases of the lives of many of the more important species. The report was far advanced when it was interrupted by his untimely death, and H. B. Bigelow ~dertook to carry it to publication along the Imes originally laid down. The new edition, entailing a general revision and the addition of In'Uch new lnaterial, has been prepared jointly by !: B. Bigelow and by W. C. Schroeder.read more
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Respiratory metabolism of temperature acclimated Fundulus heteroclitus (L.): Zones of compensation and dependence
TL;DR: This range encompasses the normal late spring, summer, and early fall range of habitat temperature in Maine estuaries, so that mummichogs are able to grow and reproduce relatively independent of environmental temperature.
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Predation on Soft-Shell Clams, Mya arenaria, by the Common Mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus'
TL;DR: Results indicate mummichog predation may equal or exceed invertebrate predation as a major cause of small (<12 mm) soft-shell clam mortality in the Gulf of Maine.
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Luring in the Neonate Alligator Snapping Turtle (Macroclemys temminckii): Description and Experimental Analysis
TL;DR: Experiments involving 14 ingestively naive turtles from a second litter investigated the role of visual, chemical, and mechanical cues in eliciting the luring and attack responses of these newborn turtles.
Growth, mortality, and age/size structure of the fisheries for tilefish, lopholatilus chamaelonticeps, in the middle atlantic-southern new england region
S. C. TuRNER,I C. B. Grimes +1 more
TL;DR: Otoliths oftilefish taken in 1978 from the Middle Atlantic Bight and Southern New England region were used to determine length at age and growth rates as mentioned in this paper, and the authors found that annuli were formed once each year between March and May, and modes in the length-frequency histogram for small tilefish «31 cm FL) in March-May agreed with back-calculated lengths at ages 1-3.
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Aroclor 1254 affects growth and survival skills of Atlantic croaker Micropogonias undulatus larvae
TL;DR: The results indicate that envi- ronmentally realistic body burdens of Aroclor 1254 transfer to the eggs and larvae, reducing their growth rates and impair- ing their startle responses, possibly making the larvae more susceptible to predation.