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Recent studies on long‐term changes in the sea
Author(s) -
CUSHING D. H.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
freshwater biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.297
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1365-2427
pISSN - 0046-5070
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2427.1990.tb00254.x
Subject(s) - herring , fishery , fish stock , demersal zone , demersal fish , zooplankton , oceanography , tuna , north sea , stock (firearms) , trophic level , plankton , phytoplankton , geography , environmental science , fish <actinopterygii> , biology , ecology , geology , archaeology , nutrient
SUMMARY. 1. Long‐term changes in the sea have been described in fish stock records, the Californian Cooperative Fisheries program (Calcofi) and in the Continuous Plankton Recorder Program (CPR). Links between the recruitments to fish stocks have been established with temperature and they are coherent across broad areas and in time. 2. In the western North Sea between the fifties and seventies, phytoplankton and zooplankton declined by a factor of 5, to recover in the eighties. This event was linked to strong northerly winds and gales by which the time of onset of production in spring was delayed. Effects on fishes were shown in the oceanic tuna stocks, North Atlantic demersal stocks, Tasmanian lobsters and on the North Sea herring, all consequent on climatic changes.