Radiometric validation of age, growth, and longevity for the blackgill rockfish (Sebastes melanostomus)

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 711-722

  Stevens, Melissa M ^a   Andrews, Allen H ^a   Cailliet, Gregor M ^a   Coale, Kenneth H ^a   Lundstrom, Craig C ^b  

^a MOSS LANDING MARINE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; FISH; GROWTH RATE; LONGEVITY; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; VON BERTALANFFY EQUATION;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); WORLD;

PISCES; SEBASTES; SEBASTES MELANOSTOMUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 7244229738     PISSN: 00900656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Andrews, A. H., G. M. Cailliet, and K. H. Coale. 1999a. Age and growth of the Pacific grenadier (Coryphaenoides acrolepis) with age estimate validation using an improved radiometric ageing technique. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 56:1339-1350.
2. 226Ra determination in otoliths for radiometric age determination of long-lived fishes. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 56:1329-38.
3. Andrews, A. H., G. M. Cailliet, K. H. Coale, K. M. Munk, M. M. Mahoney and V. M. O'Connell. 2002. Radiometric age validation of the yelloweye rockfish (Sebastes ruberrimus) from south-eastern Alaska. Mar. Freshw. Res. 53:1-8.
4. Archibald, C. P., D. Fournier, and B. M. Leaman. 1983. Reconstruction of stock history and development of rehabilitation strategies for Pacific ocean perch in Queen Charlotte Sound, Canada. N. Am. J. Fish. Manag. 3:283-294.
5. Beamish, R. J. 1979. New information on the longevity of Pacific ocean perch (Sebastes alutus). J. Fish. Res. Board Can. 36:1395-1400.
6. Beamish, R. J., and D. A. Fournier. 1981. A method for comparing the precision of a set of age determinations. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 38:982-983.
7. Beamish, R. J., and G. A. McFarlane. 1983. The forgotten requirement for age validation in fisheries biology. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 112(6):735-743.
8. 226Ra measurements in otoliths. Mar. Biol. 71:209-215.
9. Boehlert, G. W. 1985. Using objective criteria and multiple regression models for age determination in fishes. Fish. Bull. 83:103-117.
10. 226Ra disequilibria in calcified structures: a review. In Life in the slow lane: ecology and conservation of long-lived marine animals (J. A. Musick, ed.,), p. 77-87. Am. Fish. Soc. Symp. 23.
11. Butler, J. L., L. D. Jacobson, and J. T. Barnes. 1999. Stock assessment for blackgill rockfish. In Appendix to the status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 1998 and recommended acceptable biological catches for 1999: stock assessment and fishery evaluation, 93 p. Pacific Fishery Management Council, 2130 SW Fifth Avenue, Suite 224, Portland, Oregon, 97201.
12. Cailliet, G. M., A. H. Andrews, E. J. Burton, D. L. Watters, D. E. Kline, and L. A. Ferry-Graham. 2001. Age determination and validation studies of marine fishes: do deep-dwellers live longer? Exp. Gerontology 36:739-764.
13. Campana, S. E. 2001. Accuracy, precision and quality control in age determination, including a review of the use and abuse of age validation methods. J. Fish Biology 59:197-242.
14. 226Ra determination of longevity in redfish. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 47:163-165.
15. Chang, W. Y. B. 1982. A statistical method of evaluating the reproducibility of age determination. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 48:734-750.
16. Chilton, D. E., and R. J. Beamish. 1982. Age determination methods for fishes studied by the Groundfish Program at the Pacific Biological Station, 102 p. Can. Spec. Pub. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 60.
17. Craig, J. F. 1985. Aging in fish. Can. J. Zoology 63:1-8.
18. Cross, J. N. 1987. Demersal fishes of the upper continental slope off southern California. CalCOFI Report 28:155-167.
19. Echeverria, T. W. 1987. Thirty-four species of California rockfishes: maturity and seasonality of reproduction. Fish. Bull. 85:229-249.
20. Echeverria, T. W., and W. H. Lenarz. 1984. Conversions between total, fork, and standard length in 35 species of Sebastes from California. Fish. Bull. 82:249-251.
21. Fletcher, W. J. 1991. A test of the relationship between otolith weight and age for the pilchard Sardinops neopilchardus. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 48:35-38.
22. Flynn, W. W. 1968. The determination of low levels of polonium-210 in environmental materials. Anal. Chimica Acta. 43:221-227.
23. Francis, R. I. C. C. 2003. The precision of otolith radiometric ageing of fish and the effect of within-sample heterogeneity. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 60:441-447.
24. Hauser, L., G. J. Adcock, P. J. Smith, J. H. Bernal Ramirez, and G. R. Carvalho. 2002. Loss of microsatellite diversity and low effective population size in an overexploited population of New Zealand snapper (Pagrus auratus). Proc. Nat Acad. Sci. 99(18):11742-11747.
25. 226 disequilibrium to validate conventional ages in Scorpaenids (sic) (genera Sebastes and Sebastolobus). Fish. Res. 46:299-312.
26. Leaman, B. L. 1991. Reproductive style and life history variables relative to exploitation and management of Sebastes stocks. Environ. Biol. Fishes 30: 253-271.
27. Love, M. S., P. Morris, M. McCrae, and R. Collins. 1990. Life history aspects of 19 rockfish species (Scorpaenidae: Sebastes) from the southern California Bight, 38 p. NOAA Technical Report. NMFS 87.
28. Love, M. S., M. M. Yoklavich, L. Thorsteinson, and J. Butler. 2002. The rockfishes of the Northeast Pacific, 405 p. Univ. California Press, Berkeley, CA.
29. Mace, P. M., J. M. Fenaughty, R. P. Coburn, and I. J. Doonan. 1990. Growth and productivity of orange roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus) on the north Chatham Rise. New Zealand J. Mar. Fresh. Res. 24:105-109.
30. Mahoney, M. M. 2002. Age, growth and radiometric age validation of the blackgill rockfish, Sebastes melanostomus. M. Sc. thesis, 70 p. California State Univ., San Francisco, CA. [Available from: Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, 8272 Moss Landing Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039.]
31. Moser, H. G., and E. H. Ahlstrom. 1978. Larvae and pelagic juveniles of blackgill rockfish, Sebastes melanostomus, taken in midwater trawls off southern California and Baja California. J. Fish. Res. Board Can. 35:981-996.
32. Moser, H. G. R. L. Charter, W. Watson, D. A. Ambrose, J. L. Butler, S. R. Charter, and E. M. Sandknop. 2000. Abundance and distribution of rockfish (Sebastes) larvae in the southern California Bight in relation to environmental conditions and fishery exploitation. CalCOFI Report 41:132-147.
33. Musick, J. A. 1999. Ecology and conservation of long-lived marine animals. In Life in the slow lane: ecology and conservation of long-lived marine animals (J. A. Musick, ed.), p. 1-10. Am. Fish. Soc. Symp. 23.
34. Munk, K. M. 2001. Maximum ages of groundfishes in waters off Alaska and British Columbia and considerations of age determination. Alaska Fish. Res. Bull. 8(1):12-21.
35. NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). 2001. Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions; Fisheries off West Coast states and in the western Pacific; Pacific coast groundfish fishery; annual specifications and management measures. Federal Register 66:8, 2338-2355.
36. Pawson, M. G. 1990. Using otolith weight to age fish. Fish. Biol. 36:521-531.
37. Pilling, G. M., E. M. Grandcourt, and G. P. Kirkwood. 2003. The utility of otolith weight as a predictor of age in the emperor Lethrinus mahsena and other tropical fish species. Fish. Res. 60:493-506.
38. Rogers, J. B., R. D. Methot, T. L. Builder, K. Piner, and M. Wilkins. 2000. Status of the darkblotched rockfish (Sebastes erameri) resource in 2000. In Appendix to the status of the Pacific Coast groundfish fishery through 2000 and recommended acceptable biological catches for 2001: stock assessment and fishery evaluation, 79 p. Pacific Fishery Management Council, 2130 SW Fifth Ave., Suite 224, Portland, OR 97201.
39. Smith, J. N., R. Nelson, and S. E. Campana. 1991. The use of Pb-210/Ra-226 and Th-228/Ra-228 disequilibria in the ageing of otoliths of marine fish. In Radionuclides in the study of marine processes (P. J. Kershaw and D. S. Woodhead, eds.), p. 350-359. Elsevier Applied Science, New York, NY.
40. Wang, C. H., D. L. Willis, and W. D. Loveland. 1975. Radiotracer methodology in the biological, environmental, and physical sciences, 480 p. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
41. Williams, E. H., A. D. MacCall, S. V. Ralston, and D. E. Pearson. 2000. Status of the widow rockfish resource in 2000. In Appendix to the status of the Pacific Coast groundfish fishery through 1999 and recommended acceptable biological catches for 2000, 75 p. Pacific Fishery Management Council, 2130 SW Fifth Ave., Suite 224, Portland, OR 97201.
42. Williams, E. K., and S. R. Ralston. 2002. Distribution and co-occurrence of rockfishes (family: Sebastidae) over trawlable shelf and slope habitats of California and southern Oregon. Fish. Bull. 100:836-855.
43. Wilson, C. D., and G. W. Boehlert. 1990. The effects of different otolith ageing techniques on estimates of growth and mortality for the splitnose rockfish, Sebastes diploproa, and canary rockfish, S. pinniger. Calif. Fish Game 76:146-160.
44. Yoklavich, M. (ed). 1998. Marine harvest refugia for West Coast rockfish: a workshop, 162 p. NOAA-Tech. Memo. NMFS-SWFSC-255.