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Interannual variability in stage-specific survival rates and the causes of recruitment variation

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The numbers of fish entering the adult fish population will be determined by the abundance at the egg or newborn stage and the loss incurred at each stage prior to the age of maturation. Mortality is usually high and variable during the earliest stages, and determining the contribution of variation at each stage to the eventual level of recruitment will aid in identifying critical or key life stages in the prerecruit period. For fisheries managers, the ability to predict year-class strength can assist in developing management plans, or in improving our understanding of the effects of environmental change on fish populations. Here we use the term ‘recruitment’ to mean survival through the period of high mortality, which usually occurs during the first year of life in temperate marine fishes. The abundance of a cohort at the end of this period will be referred to as the level of recruitment or year-class strength.

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    R. Christopher Chambers

  2. St Andrews Biological Station, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, St Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada, E0G 2X0

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Bradford, M.J., Cabana, G. (1997). Interannual variability in stage-specific survival rates and the causes of recruitment variation. In: Chambers, R.C., Trippel, E.A. (eds) Early Life History and Recruitment in Fish Populations. Chapman & Hall Fish and Fisheries Series, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1439-1_17

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