Ichthyoplankton data provide a base for research into population dynamics of major fishery species. Information on ichthyoplankton ecology forms an important component of stock assessment and fishery management plans. Also, nursery areas are important regions for the recruitment success of fishery stocks and as such, conservation of these areas is a key part of fishery management. Temporal dist...

ABSTRACT Surf zones are important for early life stages of several fish species presenting characteristics such as high phytoplanktonic production, diverse food availability and shelter against predators. The action waves in this environment provides nutrient cycling increase the turbidity making surf ideal nursery environments fish, including clupeiforms. Clupeiform have a great ecological eco...

—We identify the sister species of the world’s only freshwater sardinella, Sardinella tawilis (Herre, 1927) of taal Lake, Philippines as the morphologically-similar marine taiwanese sardinella Sardinella hualiensis (chu and tsai, 1958). Evidence of incomplete lineage sorting and a species tree derived from three mitochondrial genes and one nuclear gene indicate that S. tawilis diverged from S. ...

Abstract Small pelagic fish (SPF) play extremely important ecological roles in marine ecosystems, form some of the most economically valuable fisheries resources, and a vital role global food security. Due to their short generation times tight coupling lower trophic levels, populations SPF display large boom-and-bust dynamics that are closely linked climate variability. To reveal emerging resea...