English sole 2010-2011 - Suitability of somatic growth of English sole as an ecosystem indicator

Description

Puget Sound is a large marine ecosystem to which state and federal agencies have initiated an ecosystem-scale management strategy in order to restore and maintain Puget Sounds valuable economic, natural, and cultural resources. The first step to achieving ecosystem-scale management is to perform an Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (IEA), a process that identifies relevant ecosystem indicators and establishes the critical benchmarks for promoting and attaining health and effective restoration to the ecosystem. Aspects of ecosystem indicators pertain to physical, chemical, ecological, and human processes. In this project, we are investigating the suitability of using somatic growth of a common flatfish (English sole, Parophrys vetulus) as an ecosystem indicator of the physical and chemical environment. For somatic growth to be considered a suitable ecosystem indicator, we are assessing whether there are significant correlations to relevant aspects of the abiotic and biotic environment. Specifically, we are investigating how otolith-derived estimates of somatic growth from sites throughout Puget Sound vary with regards to environment (e.g., water temperature, salinity, and dissolved oxygen) and anthropogenic (e.g., exposure to chemical contaminants) factors. To further understand how growth could act as an ecosystem indicator we are also determining how metabolism and consumption (estimated from a bioenergetics approach) vary under current and projected contaminant loads and climate change scenarios. This bioenergetics approach allows for the determination of a threshold range of values, for environmental and anthropogenic factors, that would produce a detectable response in somatic growth of English sole. Somatic growth, otolith chemistry, and toxilogical data.

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Name Format Description Link
0 This table describes data associated with each English sole collected in Puget Sound in 2010 and 2011. https://www.webapps.nwfsc.noaa.gov/apex/parrdata/inventory/tables/table/sampled_fish
0 This table describes data associated with each English sole collected in Puget Sound in 2010 and 2011. https://www.webapps.nwfsc.noaa.gov/apex/parr/sampled_fish/data/page/
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/18609
0 NWFSC Dataset Information page. Somatic growth, otolith chemistry, and toxilogical data https://www.webapps.nwfsc.noaa.gov/apex/parrdata/inventory/datasets/dataset/6570
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nmfs/nwfsc/dmp/pdf/18609.pdf

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  • instrument not applicable
  • puget sound
  • northwest fisheries science center
  • doc/noaa/nmfs/nwfsc
  • national marine fisheries service
  • noaa. u.s. department of commerce
  • fe (fish ecology) division
  • growth
  • toxic effects
  • otolith

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