Determining Fish Age from Temporal Signatures in Growth Increments

Ogle, Derek H.; Spangler, George R.; Shroyer, Steven M.

doi:10.1139/f94-173

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“…The Weisberg model can and, it appears, should be run with age 1 increments excluded. Ogle et al (1994) excluded age 1 increments for the Weisberg model to reduce the mean square error associated with an age effect/year effect interaction for Red Lakes, Minnesota, walleyes.…”

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Proportionality of Body to Scale Growth: Validation of Two Back-Calculation Models with Individually Tagged and Recaptured Smallmouth Bass and Walleyes

Klumb

Bozek

Frie

1999

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

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We compared the proportionality of scale to body growth and length estimates produced by the Fraser-Lee and Weisberg back-calculation models using individually tagged smallmouth bass Micropterus dolomieu and walleyes Stizostedion vitreum marked and recaptured in spring. Individual fish were tagged and later recaptured, providing multiple intervals of known growth to compare with back-calculated lengths (BCLs). There was no significant difference between total radii of scales collected when fish were younger and radii measured to the same annulus for scales collected from the same fish at final capture. Scale increment lengths remained constant and accrediting an annulus to the scale edge for fish caught in spring was valid. Known scale growth was not proportional to known body growth for smallmouth bass or walleyes; the body generally grew at a faster rate than the scales. Multiple regression analyses found that known scale growth described the most variance in known body growth, age was not always significant, and neither sex nor geographic location was ever significant. Fraser-Lee BCLs generally underestimated the actual lengths at tagging with errors ranging from Ϫ10 to ϩ4% for both species. Weisberg BCLs were as accurate as Fraser-Lee estimates for older age groups but overall were less accurate, particularly for young fish (overall error range: Ϫ12 to ϩ25%). The Fraser-Lee model is recommended for use over the Weisberg model because Fraser-Lee BCLs had lower overall range of error, Weisberg BCLs excessively overestimated lengths for age 1 fish, and the Weisberg model assumption of independence of successive scale increments within and between fish may not be valid.

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Proportionality of Body to Scale Growth: Validation of Two Back-Calculation Models with Individually Tagged and Recaptured Smallmouth Bass and Walleyes

Klumb

Bozek

Frie

1999

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

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“…Whereas this approach addresses events in relatively recent time, it parallels that taken when conducting fish biochronology (Ogle et al, 1994;Guyette & Rabeni, 1995;Pereira et al, 1995;Cyterski & Spangler, 1996).…”

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Flooded flatheads: evidence of increased growth in Mississippi River Pylodictis olivaris (Pisces: Ictaluridae) following the Great Midwest Flood of 1993

Jones

Noltie

2007

Hydrobiologia

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Both the Mississippi and Missouri rivers experienced major flooding in the spring and summer of 1993, inundating much of their floodplains for long periods, and allowing fish access to vast but previously inaccessible benthic foraging areas. In response to the latter, we hypothesized that flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris) would exhibit altered post-flooding growth as compared to like-aged fish whose lives were flood-free. To test this hypothesis, we obtained the left pectoral fin spines from hoop-netted Mississippi River flathead catfish collected in the vicinity of Crystal City, Missouri, USA, and conducted an individual-based back-calculated growth comparison of individuals captured pre-flood (1991) and post-flood (1996). For like-aged cohorts, our back-calculated length-at-age data clearly show that the post-flooding growth in 1996-collected fish was superior to that of the 1991-collected fish that had experienced less exceptional flow regimes. This outcome suggests that increased forage or/and foraging opportunities can be a consequence of flooding, and that flathead catfish are able to capitalize on this. The natural flooding regime of big rivers may thus be an important contributor to the growth and success of certain fish species; consequently, modifying the river's natural hydrograph and channel morphology may be detrimental.

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“…Tree growth chronologies, developed from xylem rings, have been extensively used to document interannual growth variations in terrestrial systems (Fritts 1976). Recently, several investigations have developed similar time series from calcified tissues in fish, thereby documenting environmental variation in aquatic systems (Ogle et al 1994;Pereira et al 1995a;Cyterski and Spangler 1996).…”

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Interannual growth variation in fish and tree rings

Lebreton¹,

Beamish²

2000

Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci.

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Interannual growth variations were compared among neighbouring populations of lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) and white spruce (Picea glauca), white pine (Pinus strobus), and red pine (Pinus resinosa). Measures of growth were obtained by removing long-term trends from widths of rings in the hard tissues of both aquatic and terrestrial organisms and assembling these measures into growth chronologies. Interannual growth variations were negatively correlated (r) between sturgeon and nearby tree population chronologies for those fish populations that displayed strong interseries correlation (r ). The three sturgeon population chronologies developed from individuals that displayed the lowest interseries correlation coefficients failed to display significant correlation with tree growth. The results of this investigation indicate that the negative relationships between fish and tree growth may be related to annual fluctuations in air temperature. In general, fish population chronologies displayed positive correlation with measures of air temperature during the current season of growth, while tree population chronologies displayed negative correlation with air temperatures from either the current or the previous season of growth.Résumé : Nous avons comparé les variations interannuelles de la croissance entre des populations voisines d'esturgeon jaune (Acipenser fulvescens) et d'épinette blanche (Picea glauca), de pin blanc (Pinus strobus) et de pin rouge (Pinus resinosa). Nous avons obtenu les mesures de la croissance en éliminant les tendances à long terme de la largeur des anneaux dans les tissus durs des organismes tant terrestres qu'aquatiques, et en assemblant ces mesures en chronologies de croissance. Les variations interannuelles de la croissance étaient négativement corrélées (r) entre les chronologies de l'esturgeon et des populations d'arbres voisines pour les populations de poissons qui présentaient une forte corrélation interséries (r ). Les trois chronologies de populations de poissons construites à partir des individus qui présentaient les plus bas coefficients de corrélation interséries n'ont pas présenté de corrélation significative avec la croissance des arbres. Les résultats de notre étude indiquent que les relations négatives entre la croissance des poissons et celle des arbres peuvent être liées à des fluctuations annuelles de la température de l'air. En général, les chronologies des populations de poissons présentaient une corrélation positive avec les mesures de la température de l'air pendant la saison de croissance en cours, alors que les chronologies des populations d'arbres montraient une corrélation négative avec les températures de l'air tant pendant la saison en cours que pendant la saison précédente de croissance.[Traduit par la Rédaction] 2356LeBreton and Beamish

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Determining Fish Age from Temporal Signatures in Growth Increments

Cited by 9 publications

References 3 publications

Proportionality of Body to Scale Growth: Validation of Two Back-Calculation Models with Individually Tagged and Recaptured Smallmouth Bass and Walleyes

Proportionality of Body to Scale Growth: Validation of Two Back-Calculation Models with Individually Tagged and Recaptured Smallmouth Bass and Walleyes

Flooded flatheads: evidence of increased growth in Mississippi River Pylodictis olivaris (Pisces: Ictaluridae) following the Great Midwest Flood of 1993

Interannual growth variation in fish and tree rings

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