We present a bioenergetic model for buoyancy regulation that incorporates the restrictions and costs of swimbladder regulation with four means of hydrodynamic lift production: hovering, swimming with extended pectoral fins, swimming with adjusted tilt angle, and body lift. Previous models addressing vertical migration in fish with swimbladders have either assumed no energetic cost or a static c...

Understanding the factors limiting migratory behaviour is fundamental to conservation of diadromous fish. Applications of indices of habitat suitability are problematic for diadromous fish because fish presence and abundance in relation to habitat quality are confounded by barriers to fish migration. An alternative approach is to assess diadromous fish distributions in proportion to distance in...

Salmon have an amazing ability to migrate thousands kilometers from the open ocean to their natal stream for reproduction after several years of oceanic feeding migration. It is now widely accepted that some specific factors of the natal stream are imprinted to particular nervous systems of juvenile salmon during downstream migration, and that adult salmon evoke these factors to recognize the n...

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Due to their unique motile properties, fish keratocytes dissociated from explant cultures have long been used to study the mechanisms of single cell migration. However, when explants are established, these cells also move collectively, maintaining many of the features which make individual keratocytes an attractive model to study migration: rapid rates of motility, extensive actin-rich lamellae...

The continuing decline of ocean fisheries and rise of global fish consumption has driven aquaculture growth by 10% annually over the last decade. The association of fish farms with disease emergence in sympatric wild fish stocks remains one of the most controversial and unresolved threats aquaculture poses to coastal ecosystems and fisheries. We report a comprehensive analysis of the spread and...

The coastal ecosystems in Southeast Asia are under increased pressure from local and global change. This paper examines human migration and the use of marine resources in coastal villages in the Minahasa district of North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Primary data were collected through interviews with village leaders, focus groups, and a sample survey of 600 fishing households. Migration is responsible...

An increase in activity of the pituitary-gonadal axis (PG-axis) and gonadal development are essential for the onset of spawning migration of chum salmon from the Bering Sea. In the Bering Sea, fish with larger body sizes initiated gonadal development and commenced spawning migration to the natal river by the end of summer. We thus hypothesized that insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I), a somato...