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- Title
Spatial shifts in spawning habitats of Arcto-Norwegian cod related to multidecadal climate oscillations and climate change.
- Authors
Sundby, Svein; Nakken, Odd
- Abstract
Sundby, S., and Nakken, O. 2008. Spatial shifts in spawning habitats of Arcto-Norwegian cod related to multidecadal climate oscillations and climate change. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 65: 953–962.Arcto-Norwegian cod tend to produce strong year classes in warm years and poor year classes in cold years. This work shows that spawning intensity at various spawning sites along 1500 km of Norwegian coast is also influenced by climate variations. However, while the recruitment response to temperature is immediate and on an interannual time-scale, the response to changes in spawning site is slower, on a multidecadal time-scale. There have been two cold and two warm periods during the 20th century, cold from 1900 to 1920, warm from 1930 to 1950, cold from 1960 to 1970, and warm since the mid-1980s. A time-series for 1900–1976 on cod roe indices along the coast shows that the southernmost spawning areas are more important during cold periods, and the northernmost ones in warm periods, and coincide with high population fecundity. After 1976, qualitative observations show that there have been poor spawning fisheries in the southernmost spawning areas during the present warm period. From 2003, spawning has been observed along the coast of East Finnmark where it did not transpire during the previous 40 years.
- Subjects
FINNMARK fylke (Norway); FISH spawning; CODFISH; OSCILLATIONS; CLIMATE change; EFFECT of temperature on fishes
- Publication
ICES Journal of Marine Science / Journal du Conseil, 2008, Vol 65, Issue 6, p953
- ISSN
1054-3139
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/icesjms/fsn085