Transport of Seaweeds by Tagged Migratory Fish Populations

✍ Scribed by Mathieson, A. C.

• Book ID: 118246625
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 961 KB
• Volume: 35
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0006-8055
• DOI: 10.1515/botm.1992.35.5.419

✦ Synopsis

A striped bass (Roccus saxatilis) that was tagged and released from the Potomac River, Maryland (Chesapeake Bay) was caught within the Great Bay Estuary System (New Hampshire/Maine). It bore a plastic identification tag densely clothed with 12 macroalgae, including 1 species of colonial diatom, 5 green and 6 red algal species. Five of the taxa were perennials and 7 were opportunistic annuals, having extensive reproductive and recruitment capabilities. The occurrence of the cold-temperate red alga Ceramium deslongchampii var. hooperi and 11 broadly distributed taxa suggests that diverse seaweeds can colonize such a surface, depending upon propagule availability within the water mass at a given time and place. Hence, a probable movement of seaweeds may occur along portions of the east coast of North America.