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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY
Volume 397, Issue 2, Pages 136-143Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2010.11.024
Keywords
Otolith; Oxygen stable isotope; Sardine; Sardinops sagax; Southern California Bight
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- SWFSC
- NOAA
- NRC
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Pacific sardines (Sardinops sagax) are commercially fished in Canada, USA, and Mexico along approximately 5000 km of coastal waters that experience a wide range of temperatures. Trinational management of the species can be problematic because the connectivity between spawning, recruitment, stock residency, and migration in some years may not be well predicted. Oxygen isotopic value of otoliths (delta O-18(otolith)) has been used to infer stock residency and movement of fish populations within regions, but few studies have used laboratory data to establish a predictive temperature model to validate delta O-18(otolith) values of wild fish. We conducted a growth experiment with juveniles at different temperatures using Southern California Bight (SCB) seawater to test the assumption that Pacific sardine otoliths accurately record environmental water temperature in the presence of constant salinity. Sardine delta O-18(otolith) values were significantly and negatively correlated with temperature according to the linear model: delta O-18(otolith)(parts per thousand)-delta O-18(water)(parts per thousand) = -0.132(+/- 0.003 SE) x Temperature(degrees C) + 2.455(+/- 0.043 SE) We used this model to predict the temperature history of wild age-1 sardine collected in the SCB from 1995 to 2003. The field samples generally fit the model of SCB residency when both the average coastal sea surface temperatures and temperatures at 30 m were used to bracket the range of calculated otolith temperatures. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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