Age and growth of Far Eastern staghorn sculpin Ggymnocanthus herzensteini (Cottidae) in peter the Great Bay (the Sea of Japan)

Growth and age of staghorn sculpins of the genus Gymnocanthus (Cottidae) in Peter the Great Bay and adjacent waters of Primorye (Sea of Japan)

“…As a rule, in age groups where relatively great number of specimens was analyzed, the mean value of fish length was similar to values averaged for the entire series. A comparison of the values computed using the method of empirical scales with the actually observed age values revealed no statistically significant differences (Panchenko, 2010), which is evidence in favor or correctness of this method for accurate growth rate estimation in cottid fishes.…”

“…For inverse calculation of growth rates, we applied the method of empirical scales (Bryuzgin, 1969), which has been well proven in our previous studies (Panchenko, 2002(Panchenko, , 2010 (in this case, the shape of the curve is of no concern). The method uses no computed dependencies, thus allow ing us to avoid errors in fish length calculations intro duced by allometry arising in the course of the fish life cycle.…”

Spawning in a cold bath: reproduction of polar and deep‐sea fish family Psychrolutidae

“…The predominance of females among adult fishes might be explained by females living longer, as in other sculpins of the superfamily Cottoidea (TenBrink & Aydin, ; Panchenko, , ; C. A. M. Ottesen, unpubl. data) and being the larger sex they possibly have a lower mortality.…”

Specification of the habitation depths and maximum sizes for the demersal fish species in the Russian territorial waters of the Sea of Japan

“…It should also be taken into account that the updates continued to be published afterwards as well. For this reason, some of the data reported by the TINRO center scientists that broadened our knowledge on the species composition, sizes, distribution, and particularities of the biology of the fish inhabiting the Russian territorial waters of the Sea of Japan (Vdovin and Shvydkii, 2000;Ivankova, 2000;Panchenko 2002Panchenko , 2005Panchenko , 2009Panchenko , 2012Antonenko et al, 2003Antonenko et al, , 2010Antonenko et al, , 2011aAntonenko et al, , 2011bIvankova and Kim, 2004;Panchenko and Antonenko, 2004;Panchenko and Pushchina, 2004;Kalchugin et al, 2006;Balanov and Solomatov, 2008;Panchenko and Zuenko, 2009;Solomatov et al, 2009;Panchenko et al, 2011Balanov et al, 2012;Zemnukhov et al, 2013;Panchenko and Solomatov, 2014;Panchenko and Boiko, 2015) have not been included in the summary work. Apart from the already published data, in the TINRO center, there have been so far accumulated many materials which have not been used in any published works and which complement and broaden our knowledge on the above-mentioned subject.…”