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Elasticity of Growth of Yellow Perch, Chain Pickerel, and Largemouth Bass in Some Reclaimed Massachussetts Waters
Author(s) -
Grice Frank
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
transactions of the american fisheries society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.696
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1548-8659
pISSN - 0002-8487
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8659(1959)88[332:eogoyp]2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - perch , fishery , land reclamation , bass (fish) , biology , population , ecology , fish <actinopterygii> , demography , sociology
Abstract To evaluate the Massachusetts warm‐water pond and lake reclamation program, which began in 1952, age and growth studies were made on several species of fish. After reclamation by rotenone, growth rates of yellow perch, chain pickerel, and largemouth bass were found to be more rapid than under natural conditions and in some cases growth rates exceeded those recorded in the literature. Adult fish stocked after reclamation showed marked increase in growth, as did resident adult fish remaining after thinning of the population. Rapid growth in reclaimed waters is attributed to reduced competition for food because of lower population densities. In these ponds it appears that the rate of growth of yellow perch, chain pickerel, and largemouth bass was more dependent upon population density than upon length of growing season or other factors.