Studies on the Dunmore Herring Stock: 2. The Otoliths of the Dunmore Herring

Wood, R. J.; Foster, M.

doi:10.1093/icesjms/30.2.222

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“…Since the early work of Heincke (1 898) demonstrated consistent phenotypic differences between herring, Clupea harengus, groups in the north-eastern Atlantic, investigators have studied morphometric and meristic variation in herring in attempts to define population structure (Dutt, 1958;Krefft, 1958;Wood & Foster, 1966;Postuma, 1974;Grainger, 1976;Wood, 1979;Rosenberg & Palmen, 1982). The primary purpose of the present study was to elucidate the population structure of the herring resources to the west of the British Isles and in particular those of the north Irish Sea.…”

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Morphological and meristic differences among spawning aggregations of north‐east Atlantic herring, Clupea harengus L.

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1985

Journal of Fish Biology

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Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed on seven anatomical characters of Atlantic herring, Chpea harengus, sampled from seven discrete spawning grounds to the west of the British Isles and from spawning sites in the Baltic and Thames Estuary. Analysis of mean similarities, Mahalanobis DZ, percentage overlap and projections from prinicipal co-ordinate analysis demonstrated that a high degree of anatomical similarity exists among the herring spawning communities to the west of the British Isles. Although local aggregations had distinct centres of abundance they appeared to have large overlapping distributions. However, the Celtic Sea sample was found to be distinctly different from adjacent and neighbouring stocks. The samples of coastal herring from the Thames Estuary and the Baltic Sea showed little overlap with other samples.

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