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The grouping of herring populations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

D. H. Cushing
D. H. Cushing
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Fisheries Laboratory, Lowestoft
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The work of Colebrook & Robinson (1965) has shown that there are three groups of seasonal cycle in production in the north-east Atlantic. There are three ‘races’ of herring in the same area, spawning in autumn, winter and spring. Taking the dates of spawning of each ‘race’ and the date by which the larvae must have food, a connexion can be made between the herring race and the production cycle in the area in which it lives. It is assumed that the date of spawning is fixed and does not vary with environmental conditions. Once the connexion between herring race and production cycle is made, certain comparisons can be made between races in growth rate, reproductive capacity and in the variability of recruitment. It was tentatively concluded that the magnitude of the year-class in the three north-east Atlantic races must be determined before metamorphosis. After metamorphosis, herring live on the beaches where the production cycle must have quite a different character.

Introduction

Herring populations have been grouped as spring and autumn spawners ever since they have been examined scientifically. Autumn spawners have been further subdivided into early autumn (or summer) and late autumn (or winter) spawners (Johansen 1924). Since the discovery of sharp differences in fecundity and egg size between early and late autumn spav/ners (Polder & Zijlstra, 1959), the distinction between them has acquired the same status as that between autumn spawners and spring spawners. However, there are very marked differences between all three groups, and to relate them to then-calendar times of spawning it is proposed to name then ‘ autumn’ (formerly early autumn), ‘winter’ (formerly late autumn) and ‘spring’ spawners.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , February 1967 , pp. 193 - 208
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1967

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