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Early Life History of Marine Fishes

Bruce Miller and Sirpa Nummela

Abstract

The life cycles of fishes are complex and varied, and knowledge of the early life stages is important for understanding the biology, ecology, and evolution of fishes. This book bring together in a single reference much of the research available and its application to fishery science—knowledge increasingly important because for most fishes, adult populations are determined at the earliest stages of life. This book offers expert guidance on how to collect and analyze larval fish data and on how this information is interpreted by applied fish biologists and fisheries managers.

Keywords: marine fishes, life cycle, early life stages, biology, ecology, evolution, fishes, larval fish, fish biologists, fisheries

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2009 Print ISBN-13: 9780520249721
Published to California Scholarship Online: March 2012 DOI:10.1525/california/9780520249721.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Bruce Miller, author

Sirpa Nummela, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Preface

Acknowledgments

The Cover Art Work

Introduction

Bruce S. Miller, and Arthur W. Kendall

Chapter 1 Fish Reproduction

Bruce S. Miller, and Arthur W. Kendall

Chapter 2 Development of Eggs and Larvae

Bruce S. Miller, and Arthur W. Kendall

Chapter 3 Fish Egg and Larval Identification and Systematics

Bruce S. Miller, and Arthur W. Kendall

Chapter 4 Ecology of Fish Eggs and Larvae

Bruce S. Miller, and Arthur W. Kendall

Chapter 5 Sampling Fish Eggs and Larvae

Bruce S. Miller, and Arthur W. Kendall

Chapter 6 Population Dynamics and Recruitment

Bruce S. Miller, and Arthur W. Kendall

Chapter 7 Habitat, Water Quality, and Conservation Biology

Bruce S. Miller, and Arthur W. Kendall

Chapter 8 Rearing and Culture of Marine Fishes

Bruce S. Miller, and Arthur W. Kendall

End Matter

LABORATORY EXERCISE ONE Ova Measurement to Determine Number of Spawnings and Introduction to Writing a Scientific Paper

Laboratory Exercise Two Use of Histology to Determine if Multiple Spawnings are Occurring

Laboratory Exercise Three Fecundity Determination

Laboratory Exercise Four Artificially Spawning, Fertilizing, and Rearing Planktonic Fish Eggs

Laboratory Exercise Five Culturing Marine Fish Larvae

Laboratory Exercise Six Conducting Ichthyoplankton Tows

Laboratory Exercise Seven Sorting and Identifying Fish Eggs and Larvae in Ichthyoplankton Samples

Laboratory Exercise Eight Diversity/Identification of Planktonic Fish Eggs and Larvae

Laboratory Exercise Nine Preparing and Examining Larval Fish Otoliths for Daily Growth

Laboratory Exercise Ten Larval Fish Gut Contents

Laboratory Exercise Eleven Histological Condition Index

Laboratory Exercise Twelve Clearing and Staining Larval Fish

Glossary

Literature Cited

Taxonomical Index

General Index