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Field Studies of Energy Budgets

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Fish Energetics

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An energy budget provides a powerful framework for identifying the most important aspects of the life of any fish. It enables the various inputs and outputs to the animal to be examined in common, transferable units, and permits some distinction to be made between the different ways in which energy is expended in the wild. The main components of the budget, the energy taken in as food (C), the energy lost as nitrogenous excretory products (U) and as faeces (F), the energy dissipated in metabolism and devoted to different activities (R), and the surplus energy available for growth of the somatic and reproductive tissues (P), are all relevant to an understanding of the survival, growth and overall production of fish in the wild. The food consumed by fish, and its relationship to growth, are of particular importance, since they are crucial for the understanding and modelling of marine ecosystems (Steele, 1974). The food consumption itself can be applied directly in studies of the transfer of energy within food chains and of the influence of a species at one trophic level upon another. Moreover, a knowledge of the energy transfer from one level to another is essential for determining the natural mortality of prey species, a parameter which is not readily estimated by any other method. Such data are especially relevant to the management of multi-species fisheries, where one commercially valuable species feeds upon another.

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Soofiani, N.M., Hawkins, A.D. (1985). Field Studies of Energy Budgets. In: Tytler, P., Calow, P. (eds) Fish Energetics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7918-8_11

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