Reproductive timing in marine fishes: variability, temporal scales, and methods

SK Lowerre-Barbieri, K Ganias… - Marine and Coastal …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Reproductive timing can be defined as the temporal pattern of reproduction over a lifetime.
Although reproductive timing is highly variable in marine fishes, certain traits are universal …

Evolution and phylogeny of gonad morphology in bony fishes

LR Parenti, HJ Grier - Integrative and comparative biology, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Gonad morphology at the gross anatomical or histological levels has long been studied by
fisheries biologists to identify annual reproductive cycles and length of breeding season …

[HTML][HTML] Fishermen's local ecological knowledge on Southeastern Brazilian coastal fishes: contributions to research, conservation, and management

RAM Silvano, A Begossi - Neotropical Ichthyology, 2012 - SciELO Brasil
We analyzed fishermen's local ecological knowledge (LEK) about the feeding habits, trophic
interactions, habitats, fishing grounds, migration, and reproduction of nine coastal fishes in …

Thirty years of using the postovulatory follicles method: overview, problems and alternatives

K Ganias - Fisheries Research, 2012 - Elsevier
The postovulatory follicles' method or POFs method was introduced by Hunter and Goldberg
in the start of the 80s and still remains the most popular method for estimating population …

Review of size-and age-dependence in batch spawning: implications for stock assessment of fish species exhibiting indeterminate fecundity

GR Fitzhugh, KW Shertzer, GT Kellison… - South Carolina State …, 2012 - dc.statelibrary.sc.gov
Most assessments of fish stocks use some measure of the reproductive potential of a
population, such as spawning biomass. However, the correlation between spawning …

Advances in methods for determining fecundity: application of the new methods to some marine fishes

PR Witthames, A Thorsen, H Murua, F Saborido-Rey… - 2009 - aquadocs.org
Estimation of individual egg production (realized fecundity) is a key step either to understand
the stock and recruit relationship or to carry out fisheries-independentassessment of …

The continuing role of life history parameters to identify stock structure

RS McBride - Stock Identification Methods, 2014 - Elsevier
Life history parameters were historically used to identify fish stocks because they are often
easy to measure or are routinely measured as part of fishery monitoring and because they …

How does spawning frequency scale with body size in marine fishes?

DJ Marshall, DR Barneche, CR White - Fish and Fisheries, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
How does fecundity scale with female size? Female size not only affects the number and
size of offspring released in any one reproductive bout (ie batch fecundity) but also affects …

Sexual development and reproductive seasonality of hogfish (Labridae: Lachnolaimus maximus), an hermaphroditic reef fish

RS McBride, MR Johnson - Journal of Fish Biology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The seasonality, size, age, colour phases and sexual dimorphism of 13 reproductive classes
of hogfish Lachnolaimus maximus are described. Analysis of histological sections of gonads …

Life History of Glossobius Hemiramphi (Isopoda: Cymothoidae): Development, Reproduction, and Symbiosis with its Host Hemiramphus Brasiliensis (Pisces …

MD Bakenhaster, RS McBride… - Journal of Crustacean …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
This research examines the life cycle of the parasitic cymothoid isopod Glossobius
hemiramphi and its role as a symbiont with its fish host, ballyhoo (Hemiramphus …