This study analyses the feeding ecology of Brevortia aurea (Brazilian menhaden) larvae during a reproductive season in Río de la Plata estuary (RPE), and explores its changes along larval development. Data were obtained from stomach content 205 individuals collected with Bongo net spring 2001. Larvae discriminated into preflexion (PF), flexion (F) post-flexion (PsF) stages. Feeding was describe...

Introduction Overfishing and climate change have combined to cause fishery stocks decline fish community composition change, further threatening the predation nutritional health of marine mammals. Methods In this study, we collected potential prey fishes catched by fishermen in six habitats Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins analyzed their proximate (moisture, water, fat protein), fatty acid amino ...

The hilsa shad, Tenualosa ilisha (Clupeidae, Clupeiformes) is an important anadromous clupeid species from the Western division of the Indo-Pacific region. It constitutes the largest single fishable species in Bangladesh. Information on genetic variability and population structure is very important for both management and conservation purposes. Past reports on the population structure of T. ili...

Eighteen specimens of Sardinella gibbosa (Bleeker, 1849) collected from Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan represent the first Japanese specimen-based records species. All conformed closely to diagnosis S. gibbosa, having caudal fin uniformly pale, a black spot on dorsal-fin origin, body scales with centrally discontinuous striae, 26−31+50–57=77–88 gill rakers arch, and 18 or 19+14 15=32–34 ...