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Summer-autumn ichthyoplankton of the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan and special traits of feeding of fish larvae and fry in 2003–2004

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In summer-autumn of 2003–2004, the ichthyoplankton of the Sea of Okhotsk comprised 35 species. In this period the most widely distributed and numerous were larvae of the lord Hemilepidotus gilberti, the Pacific stout sand lance Ammodytes hexapterus, and the Sakhalin dab Limanda sakhalinensis. The maximum catches of fish larvae were attributed to coastal waters off eastern Sakhalin and to the shelf of the northern part of the Sea of Okhotsk. In November of 2003, the ichthyoplankton of the Sea of Japan was represented by fish larvae belonging mainly to the boreal ichthyocomplex. The catches consisted predominantly of larvae of the arabesque greenling Pleurogrammus azonus, the ronquil Bathymaster derjugini, and the rockfish Sebastes owstoni. Fish larvae and fry in the northwestern part of the Sea of Japan were caught principally within 43°–45° N and 137°–139° E above the depth 1500–2000 m. The food spectrum of fish larvae in the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan comprised over 20 plankters of various size belonging to seven taxa. Irrespective of fish species, the food items common of all fish were copepods Pseudocalanus minutus and Oithona similis. The daily rations were calculated for mass species (Hemilepidotus gilberti, Ammodytes hexapterus, Hexagrammos stelleri, Pleurogrammus azonus, Bathymaster derjugini, and Sebastes owstoni). The larvae of all considered species in the Sea of Japan and in the Sea of Okhotsk fed predominantly in the light period of the day.

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Original Russian Text © S.V. Davydova, M.A. Shebanova, E.N. Andreeva, 2007, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2007, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 515–528.

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Davydova, S.V., Shebanova, M.A. & Andreeva, E.N. Summer-autumn ichthyoplankton of the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan and special traits of feeding of fish larvae and fry in 2003–2004. J. Ichthyol. 47, 520–532 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945207070065

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