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Migrations of Tagged Juvenile Atlantic Menhaden
Author(s) -
Kroger Richard L.,
Guthrie James F.
Publication year - 1973
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(1973)102<417:motjam>2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - fishery , menhaden , juvenile , chesapeake bay , fishing , bay , fish <actinopterygii> , spring (device) , geography , oceanography , biology , estuary , ecology , geology , fish oil , archaeology , mechanical engineering , engineering
From 1967 to 1971 over 80,000 juvenile Atlantic menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus, were tagged from Florida to Massachusetts. Returns of the internal ferromagnetic body tags from the commercial menhaden fisheries indicate the juveniles migrate as far south as Florida in the fall and winter and then redistribute northward along the coast by size as age‐I fish during the following spring and summer. Larger 1‐year‐old fish migrate north earlier and in greater numbers than small ones which remain in more southern waters where some are not available to the fisheries for part of the year. Some northward movement of age‐I fish from the South Atlantic fishing area to Chesapeake Bay, evidently occurs through midsummer.