Mechanisms of Migration in Fishes (Nato Conference Series, 14)

The last major synthesis of our knowledge of fish migration and the underlying transport and guidance phenomena, both physical and biological, was "Fish Migration" published 16 years ago by F.R. Harden Jones (1968). That synthesis was based largely upon what could be gleaned by classical fishery-biology techni.ques, such as tagging and recapture studies, commercial fishing statistics, and netting and trapping studies. Despite the fact that Harden Jones also provided, with a good deal of thought and speculation, a theoretical basis for studying the various aspects of fish migration and migratory orientation, progress in this field has been, with a few excepti.ons, piecemeal and more disjointed than might have been expected. Thus we welcomed the approach from the NATO Marine Sciences Programme Panel and the encouragement from F.R. Harden Jones to develop a proprosal for, and ultimately to organize, a NATO Advanced Research Institute (ARI) on mechanisms of fish migration. Substantial progress had been made with descriptive, analytical and predictive approaches to fish migration since the appearance of "Fish ~ligration." Both because of the progress and the often conflicting results of research, we felt that the time was again right and the effort justified to synthesize and to critically assess our knowledge. Our ultimate aim was to identify the gains and shortcomings and to develop testable hypotheses for the next decade or two. Front Matter....Pages i-x A View from the Ocean....Pages 1-26 Advection, Diffusion, and Drift Migrations of Larval Fish....Pages 27-37 Drift of Larval Fishes in the Ocean: Results and Problems from Previous Studies and a Proposed Field Experiment....Pages 39-59 Behavioral Enviroregulation’s Role in Fish Migration....Pages 61-66 Could Fish Use Inertial Clues When on Migration?....Pages 67-78 Directional Information from Surface Swell:Some Possibilities....Pages 79-101 Influence of Stock Origin on Salmon Migratory Behavior....Pages 103-111 An Experimental Approach to Fish Compass and Map Orientation....Pages 113-123 Magnetic Sensitivity and its Possible Physical Basis in the Yellowfin Tuna, Thunnus Albacares ....Pages 125-141 Artificial Maturation as a Technique for Investigating Adaptations for Migration in the European Eel, Anguilla Anguilla (L.)....Pages 143-157 Fish Migrations in Coastal and Estuarine Environments: A Call for New Approaches to the Study of an Old Problem....Pages 159-178 The Orientation of Fish and the Vertical Stratification at Fine- and Micro-Structure Scales....Pages 179-203 Large-Scale Interannual Fluctuations in Ocean Parameters and their Influence on Fish Populations....Pages 205-207 Patterns, Mechanisms and Approaches to the Study of Migrations of Estuarine-Dependent Fish Larvae and Juveniles....Pages 209-225 Fish Migration by Selective Tidal Stream Transport: First Results with a Computer Simulation Model for the European Continental Shelf....Pages 227-261 A Model of Olfactory-Mediated Conditioning of Directional Bias in Fish Migrating in Reversing Tidal Currents Based on the Homing Migration of American Shad ( ALOSA SAPIDISSIMA )....Pages 263-281 Does the Route of Seaward Migration of Fraser River Sockeye Salmon ( Oncorhynchus Nerka ) Smolts Determine the Route of Return Migration of the Adults?....Pages 283-292 Migration in Coral Reef Fishes: Ecological Significance and Orientation Mechanisms....Pages 293-308 Migration of the “Northern” Atlantic Cod and the Mechanisms Involved....Pages 309-315 Mechanisms of Fish Migration in Rivers....Pages 317-355 Homing and Straying in Pacific Salmon....Pages 357-362 Morpholine, Bile Acids and Skin Mucus as Possible Chemical Cues in Salmonid Homing: Electrophysiological Re-Evaluation....Pages 363-378 Establishing the Physiological and Behavioral Determinants of Chemosensory Orientation....Pages 379-385 Downstream Movements of Juvenile Salmonids: A Forward Speculative View....Pages 387-396 Migration and Learning in Fishes....Pages 397-420 Methodological Aspects of Migration and Orientation in Fishes....Pages 421-444 An Introduction to Modeling Migratory Behavior of Fishes....Pages 445-469 Measuring Physical-Oceanographic Features Relevant to the Migration of Fishes....Pages 471-486 Bioenergetic Considerations in Fish Migration....Pages 487-508 Migration and Navigation in Birds: A Present-State Survey with Some Digressions to Related Fish Behaviour....Pages 509-544 Fish Migration Studies: Future Directions....Pages 545-554 Back Matter....Pages 555-574