Pelagic fish outburst or suprabenthic habitat occupation: Legacy of the Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) collapse in eastern Canada

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2256-2262

  McGuinn, Ian H ^a  

^a MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; GADOID; HABITAT USE; PELAGIC FISH; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION ESTIMATION; PREDATION; STOCK COLLAPSE; TRAWLING;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

CLUPEA HARENGUS; CLUPEIDAE; GADUS MORHUA; HALICHOERUS GRYPUS; PISCES;

EID: 70849089017     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F09-143     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Bowen, W.D., Lawson, J.W., and Beck, B. 1993. Seasonal and geographic variation in the species composition and size of prey consumed by grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) on the Scotian Shelf. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 50(8): 1768-1778. doi:10.1139/ f93-198.
2. Bowen, W.D., Beck, C.A., Iverson, S.J., Austin, D.A., and McMillan, J.I. 2006. Linking predator foraging behaviour and diet with variability in continental shelf ecosystems: grey seals of eastern Canada. In Top predators in marine ecosystems. Edited by I.L. Boyd, S.W. Wanless, and C.J. Camphuysen. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. pp. 63-81.
3. Bundy, A. 2001. Fishing on ecosystems: the interplay of fishing and predation in Newfoundland-Labrador. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 58(6): 1153-1167. doi:10.1139/cjfas-58-6-1153.
4. Bundy, A. 2004. Mass balance models of the eastern Scotian Shelf before and after the cod collapse and other ecosystem changes. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. No. 2520.
5. Bundy, A. 2005. Structure and functioning of the eastern Scotian Shelf ecosystem before and after the collapse of groundfish stocks in the early 1990s. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 62(7): 1453-1473. doi:10.1139/f05-085.
6. Bundy, A., and Fanning, L.P. 2005. Can Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) recover? Exploring trophic explanations for the non-recovery of the cod stock on the eastern Scotian Shelf, Canada. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 62(7): 1474-1489. doi:10.1139/f05-086.
7. Clark, D.S., Gavaris, S., and Hinze, J.M. 2002. Assessment of cod in Division 4X in 2002. CSAS Res. Doc. No. 2002/105.
8. Cury, P., Bakun, A., Crawford, R.J.M., Jarre, A., Quiñones, R.A., Shannon, L.J., and Verheye, H.M. 2000. Small pelagics in upwelling systems: patterns of interaction and structural changes in ''wasp-waist'' ecosystems. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 57(3): 603-618. doi:10.1006/jmsc.2000.0712.
9. Fanning, L.P., Mohn, B., and MacEachern, W.P. 2003. Assessment of 4VsW cod in 2002. CSAS Res. Doc. No. 2003/027.
10. Frank, K.T., Carscadden, J.E., and Simon, J.E. 1996. Recent excursions of capelin (Mallotus villosus) to the Scotian Shelf and Flemish Cap during anomalous hydrographic conditions. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 53(7): 1473-1486. doi:10.1139/cjfas-53-7-1473.
11. Frank, K.T., Petrie, B., Choi, J.S., and Leggett, W.C. 2005. Trophic cascades in a formerly cod-dominated ecosystem. Science (Washington, D.C.), 308(5728): 1621-1623. doi:10.1126/science.1113075. PMID:15947186.
12. Frank, K.T., Petrie, B., Shackell, N.L., and Choi, J.S. 2006. Reconciling differences in trophic control in mid-latitude marine ecosystems. Ecol. Lett. 9(10): 1096-1105. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248. 2006.00961.x. PMID:16972873.
13. Fréchet, A., Gauthier, J., Schwab, P., Bourdages, H., Tournois, C., Spingle, J., Way, M., and Collier, F. 2007. The status of cod in the Northern Gulf of St. Lawrence (3Pn, 4RS) in 2006. CSAS Res. Doc. No. 2007/068.
14. Fu, C., Mohn, B., and Fanning, L.P. 2001. Why the Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) stock off eastern Nova Scotia has not recovered. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 58(8): 1613-1623. doi:10.1139/ cjfas-58-8-1613.
15. Greene, C.H., and Pershing, A.J. 2007. Oceans: climate drives sea change. Science (Washington, D.C.), 315(5815): 1084-1085. doi:10.1126/science.1136495. PMID:17322049.
16. Grégoire, F., Lefebvre, L., and Lavers, J. 2004. Analytical assessment and risk analyses for the herring (Clupea harengus harengus L.) stocks on the west coast of Newfoundland (NAFO Division 4R) in 2002. CSAS Res. Doc. No. 2004/060.
17. Harley, S.J., Myers, R.A., Barrowman, N., Bowen, K., and Amiro, R. 2001. Estimation of research trawl survey catchability for biomass reconstruction of the eastern Scotian Shelf. CSAS Res. Doc. No. 2001/084.
18. Head, E.J.H., and Sameoto, D.D. 2007. Inter-decadal variability in zooplankton and phytoplankton abundance on the Newfoundland and Scotian shelves. Deep Sea Res. Part II Top. Stud. Oceanogr. 54(23-26): 2686-2701. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2007.08.003.
19. Lambert, Y., and Dutil, J.-D. 1997. Condition and energy reserves on Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) during the collapse of the northern Gulf of St. Lawrence stock. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 54(10): 2388-2400. doi:10.1139/cjfas-54-10-2388.
20. Massé, J., Koutsikopoulos, C., and Patty, W. 1996. The structure and spatial distribution of pelagic fish schools in multispecies clusters: an acoustic study. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 53(2): 155-160. doi:10.1006/jmsc.1996.0016.
21. McQuinn, I.H., and Lefebvre, L. 1996. An evaluation of the acoustic backscatter of western Newfoundland herring with a comparison of classical statistics and geostatistics for the estimation of variance. DFO Atl. Fish. Res. Doc. No. 96/58.
22. McQuinn, I.H., and Lefebvre, L. 1999. An evaluation of the western Newfoundland herring acoustic abundance index from 1989-1997. DFO Atl. Fish. Res. Doc. No. 99/120.
23. Mowbray, F.K. 2002. Changes in the vertical distribution of capelin (Mallotus villosus) off Newfoundland. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 59(5): 942-949. doi:10.1006/jmsc.2002.1259.
24. Myers, R.A., Hutchings, J.A., and Barrowman, N.J. 1996. Hypotheses for the decline of cod in the North Atlantic. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 138: 293-308. doi:10.3354/meps138293.
25. Myers, R.A., Hutchings, J.A., and Barrowman, N.J. 1997. Why do fish stocks collapse? The example of cod in Atlantic Canada. Ecol. Appl. 7(1): 91-106. doi:10.1890/1051-0761(1997) 007[0091:WDFSCT]2.0.CO;2.
26. Myers, R.A., Baum, J.K., Shepherd, T.D., Powers, S.P., and Peterson, C.H. 2007. Cascading effects of the loss of apex predatory sharks from a coastal ocean. Science (Washington, D.C.), 315(5820): 1846-1850. doi:10.1126/science.1138657. PMID: 17395829.
27. Power, M.J., Clark, K.J., Fife, F.J., Knox, D., Melvin, G.D., Stephenson, R.L., and Annis, L.M. 2006. 2006 evaluation of 4VWX herring. CSAS Res. Doc. No. 2006/049.
28. Rice, J. 1995. Food web theory, marine food webs, and what climate change may do to northern marine fish populations. In Climate change and northern fish populations. Edited by R.J. Beamish. Can. Spec. Publ. Fish. Aquat. Sci. No. 121. pp. 561-568.
29. Rose, G.A. 1993. Cod spawning on a migration highway in the north-west Atlantic. Nature (London), 366(6454): 458-461 doi:10.1038/366458a0.
30. Savenkoff, C., Bourdages, H., Castonguay, M., Morissette, L., Chabot, D., and Hammill, M.O. 2004a. Input data and parameter estimates for ecosystem models of the northern Gulf of St. Lawrence (mid-1990s). Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. No. 2531.
31. Savenkoff, C., Castonguay, M., Vezina, A.F., Despatie, S.P., Chabot, D., Morissette, L., and Hammill, M.O. 2004b. Inverse modelling of trophic flow through an entire ecosystem: the northern Gulf of St. Lawrence in the mid-1980s. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 61(11): 2194-2214. doi:10.1139/f04-154.
32. Savenkoff, C., Castonguay, M., Chabot, D., Hammill, M.O., Bourdages, H., and Morissette, L. 2007a. Changes in the northern Gulf of St. Lawrence ecosystem estimated by inverse modelling: evidence of a fishery-induced regime shift? Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci. 73(3-4): 711-724. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2007.03.011.
33. Savenkoff, C., Swain, D.P., Hanson, J.M., Castonguay, M., Hammill, M.O., Bourdages, H., Morissette, L., and Chabot, D. 2007b. Effects of fishing and predation in a heavily exploited ecosystem: comparing periods before and after the collapse of groundfish in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence (Canada). Ecol. Model. 204(1-2): 115-128. doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.12.029.
34. Simmonds, J., and MacLennan, D. 2005. Fisheries acoustics: theory and practice. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK.
35. Worm, B., and Myers, R.A., 2003. Meta-analysisofcod-shrimpinteractionsrevealstop-downcontrolinoceanicfoodwebs. Ecology,84(1): 162-173. doi:10.1890/0012-9658(2003)084[0162:MAOCSI]2.0. CO;2.