Journal
JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY
Volume 83, Issue 6, Pages 1508-1527Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jfb.12263
Keywords
bathypelagic; diel migration; epipelagic; mesopelagic; nekton; vertical distribution
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- National Science Foundation Ocean Sciences Division- Biological Oceanography Programme [OCE 0623551, 0853761]
- MAR-ECO, a Census of Marine Life field project
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Ocean Sciences [0853761] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Applications of acoustic and optical sensing and intensive, discrete-depth sampling, in concert with collaborative international research programmes, have substantially advanced knowledge of pelagic ecosystems in the 17years since the 1996 Deepwater Fishes Symposium of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles. Although the epipelagic habitat is the best-known, and remote sensing and high-resolution modelling allow near-synoptic investigation of upper layer biophysical dynamics, ecological studies within the mesopelagic and deep-demersal habitats have begun to link lower and upper trophic level processes. Bathypelagic taxonomic inventories are far from complete, but recent projects (e.g. MAR-ECO and CMarZ, supported by the Census of Marine Life programme) have quantitatively strengthened distribution patterns previously described for fishes and have provided new perspectives. Synthesis of net and acoustic studies suggests that the biomass of deep-pelagic fishes may be two to three orders of magnitude greater than the total global commercial fisheries landings. Discrete-depth net sampling has revealed relatively high pelagic fish biomass below 1000m in some regions, and that gelatinous zooplankton may be key energy vectors for deep-pelagic fish production. Lastly, perhaps, the most substantive paradigm shift is that vertical connectivity among fishes across classical depth zones is prevalent- suggesting that a whole-water column approach is warranted for deep ocean conservation and management.
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