Compensatory Growth in Alaska Yellowfin Sole, Pleuronectes asper, Following Food Deprivation
- Authors: A.J. Paul, J.M. Paul, and R.L. Smith
- Pub. no.: RP-95-09
- Year: 1995
- Price: Single copies free
Description
The commercially important yellowfin sole is dominant in the benthic food web of the Alaskan shelf community, where it is one of the most common fish. This research shows that yellowfin sole has limited capacity for compensatory growth (a phase of rapid growth following a period of undernutrition). Because growth rate is used to model yields and consumption rates, it is useful to know to what extent yellowfin sole can compensate in growth for periods of food deprivation. These findings may account for some interannual differences in mean length and weight at age for yellowfin sole from the Bering Sea where variations in ice cover and the cold water limit the growing season. Journal of Fish Biology 46:442-448, 1995.
