Bomb Radiocarbon Validates Age and Long-Term Growth Declines in American Plaice in the Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence

REFERENCES

• Armsworthy , S. L. and Campana , S. E. 2010 . Age determination, bomb radiocarbon validation, and growth of Atlantic Halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) from the Northwest Atlantic . Environmental Biology of Fishes , 89 : 279 – 295 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Beamish , R. J. and McFarlane , G. A. 1983 . The forgotten requirement for age validation in fisheries biology . Transactions of the American Fisheries Society , 112 : 735 – 743 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Benoît , H. P. and Swain , D. P. 2008 . Impacts of environmental change and direct and indirect harvesting effects on the dynamics of a marine fish community . Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences , 65 : 2088 – 2104 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bowering , W. R. and Brodie , W. B. 1994 . Distribution, age and growth, and sexual maturity of American Plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides [Fabricius]) on Flemish Cap (NAFO Division 3M) . Journal of Northwest Atlantic Fishery Science , 16 : 49 – 61 .
   Google Scholar
• Campana , S. E. 2001 . Accuracy, precision, and quality control in age determination, including a review of the use and abuse of age validation methods . Journal of Fish Biology , 59 : 197 – 242 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Campana , S. E. , Casselman , J. M. and Jones , C. M. 2008 . Bomb radiocarbon chronologies in the Arctic, with implications for the age validation of Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush) and other Arctic species . Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences , 65 : 733 – 743 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chilton , D. E. and Beamish , R. J. 1982 . Age determination methods for fishes studied by the groundfish program at the Pacific Biological Station . Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences , 60
   Google Scholar
• Clay , D. , Chouinard , G. , Hurlbut , T. , Currie , L. and Clay , H. 1984 . Stock report for American Plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides [Fabricius]) and other flatfishes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, including a discussion of discard levels and mesh selectivity of plaice . Canadian Atlantic Fisheries Scientific Advisory Committee Research Document 84/76 ,
   Google Scholar
• COSEWIC (Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada) . 2009 . COSEWIC assessment and status report on the American Plaice Hippoglossoides platessoides, Maritime population, Newfoundland and Labrador population, and Arctic population in Canada , Ottawa , Ontario : COSEWIC .
   Google Scholar
• Dery , L. M. 1988 . “ American Plaice, Hippoglossoides platessoides ” . In Age determination methods for Northwest Atlantic species , Edited by: Penttila , J. and Dery , L. M. 111 – 118 . NOAA Technical Report NMFS 72 .
   Google Scholar
• DFO (Department of Fisheries and Oceans) . 2009 . State of the ocean 2008: physical oceanographic conditions in the Gulf of St. Lawrence . DFO, Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat Science Advisory Report 2009/019 ,
   Google Scholar
• Doran , L. D. 1967 . The early life history of the American Plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides [Fabricius]) in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Master's thesis , Montreal : McGill University .
   Google Scholar
• Dwyer , K. S. , Walsh , S. J. and Campana , S. E. 2003 . Age determination, validation, and growth of Grand Bank Yellowtail Flounder (Limanda ferruginea) . ICES Journal of Marine Science , 60 : 1123 – 1138 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Francis , R. I. C. C. , Campana , S. E. and Neil , H. L. 2010 . Validation of fish ageing methods should involve bias estimation rather than hypothesis testing: a proposed approach for bomb radiocarbon validations . Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences , 67 : 1398 – 1408 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Froese , R. and Pauly , D. 2012 . FishBase . Available: http://www.fishbase.org (February 2012)
   Google Scholar
• Gislason , H. , Daan , N. , Rice , J. C. and Pope , J. G. 2010 . Size, growth, temperature, and the natural mortality of marine fish . Fish and Fisheries , 11 : 149 – 158 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• González-Troncoso , D. and Paz , X. 2008 . Growth features of American Plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides) in Northwest Atlantic . Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization, Science Council Research Document 08/53 ,
   Google Scholar
• Haddon , M. 2011 . Modelling and quantitative methods in fisheries, , 2nd edition , New York : CRC Press/Chapman and Hall .
   Google Scholar
• Jean , Y. 1963 . Discards of fish at sea by northern New Brunswick draggers . Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada , 20 : 497 – 524 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lux , F. E. 1970 . A note on the growth of American Plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides Fabr.) in ICNAF Subarea 5 . International Commission for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Research Bulletin , 7 : 5 – 7 .
   Google Scholar
• Mahé , J.-C. and Moguedet , P. 1991 . Determination of the growth curve parameters of the American Plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides) in the NAFO Subdivision 3Ps . Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization, Science Council Research Document 91/27 ,
   Google Scholar
• Melvin , G. D. and Campana , S. E. 2010 . High-resolution bomb dating for testing the accuracy of age interpretations for a short-lived pelagic fish, the Atlantic Herring . Environmental Biology of Fishes , 89 : 297 – 311 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Minet , J.-P. 1994 . Données sur la biologie de la plie américaine Hippolossoides platessoides des bancs Méridionaux de Terre-Neuve et du plateau du Cap Breton. [Data on the biology of the American Plaice Hippolossoides platessoides of the southern banks of Newfoundland and the Cape Breton plateau.] . Revue des Travaux de l’Institut des Pêches Maritimes , 38 : 343 – 434 .
   Google Scholar
• Morin , R. and LeBlanc , S. G. 2012 . Assessment of the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence (NAFO Division 4T) American Plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides) . Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat Research Document 2012/099 ,
   Google Scholar
• Morin , R. , LeBlanc , S. G. , Chouinard , G. A. and Swain , D. 2008 . Status of NAFO Division 4T American Plaice, February 2008 . Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat Research Document 2008/67 ,
   Google Scholar
• Piner , K. R. and Wischniowski , S. G. 2004 . Pacific Halibut chronology of bomb radiocarbon in otoliths from 1944 to 1981 and a validation of ageing methods . Journal of Fish Biology , 64 : 1060 – 1071 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pitt , T. K. 1967 . Age and growth of American Plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides) in the Newfoundland area of the Northwest Atlantic . Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada , 24 : 1077 – 1099 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pitt , T. K. 1975 . An assessment of American Plaice in ICNAF Subdivision 3Ps . International Commission for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Research Document 75/22 ,
   Google Scholar
• Powles , P. M. 1965 . Life history and ecology of American Plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides F.) in the Magdalen Shallows . Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada , 22 : 565 – 598 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Powles , P. M. 1966 . Validity of ageing young American Plaice from otoliths . International Commission for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Research Bulletin , 3 : 103 – 105 .
   Google Scholar
• Ricker , W. E. 1969 . Effects of size-selective mortality and sampling bias on estimates of growth, mortality, production, and yield . Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada , 26 : 479 – 541 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rideout , R. M. , Morgan , M. J. , Maddock Parsons , D. , Brodie , W. B. , Healey , B. P. , Power , D. and Dwyer , K. S. 2011 . An assessment of American Plaice in NAFO Div. 3LNO . Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization, Science Council Research Document 11/032 ,
   Google Scholar
• Savenkoff , C. , Swain , D. P. , Hanson , J. M. , Castonguay , M. , Hammill , M. O. , Bourdages , H. , Morissette , L. and Chabot , D. 2007 . Effects of fishing and predation in a heavily exploited ecosystem: comparing periods before and after the collapse of groundfish in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence (Canada) . Ecological Modelling , 204 : 115 – 128 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Scott , W. B. and Scott , M. G. 1988 . Atlantic fishes of Canada . Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 219 ,
   Google Scholar
• Sinclair , A. F. , Swain , D. P. and Hanson , J. M. 2002 . Measuring changes in the direction and magnitude of size-selective mortality in a commercial fish population . Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences , 59 : 361 – 371 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stuiver , M. and Polach , H. A. 1977 . Reporting of C-14 data . Radiocarbon , 19 : 355 – 363 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Swain , D. P. 1997 . Sex-specific temperature distribution of American Plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides) and its relation to age and abundance . Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences , 54 : 1077 – 1087 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Swain , D. P. and Morgan , M. J. 2001 . Sex-specific temperature distribution in four populations of American Plaice Hippoglossoides platessoides . Marine Ecology Progress Series , 212 : 233 – 246 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Treble , M. A. , Campana , S. E. , Wastle , R. J. , Jones , C. M. and Boje , J. 2008 . Growth analysis and age validation of a deepwater Arctic fish, the Greenland Halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides) . Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences , 65 : 1047 – 1059 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar