Estimating migration patterns of fish from otolith chemical composition time series
Publication: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
10 April 2021
Abstract
Understanding migration patterns and habitat use is of great importance for management and conservation of marine living resources. The chemical composition of otoliths is influenced by the surrounding environment; therefore, they are indispensable data archives. To extract migration patterns and historical habitat use of individual fish, we analyse otolith chemical compositions obtained by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry by a regime-switching state-space model. The state-space model filters the measurement noise from the environmental signal. In turn, the filtered signal is converted to geographical positions through a calibration of strontium to salinity. The method is validated by a simulation study and applied to 404 Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) otoliths.
Résumé
La compréhension des habitudes migratoires et de l’utilisation de l’habitat est d’une grande importance pour la gestion et la conservation des ressources marines vivantes. Parce que leur composition chimique est influencée par le milieu environnant, les otolites constituent d’indispensables archives de données. Afin d’inférer les habitudes migratoires et d’utilisation de l’habitat passées de poissons individuels, nous analysons la composition chimique d’otolites obtenue par spectrométrie de masse avec plasma à couplage inductif jumelée à l’ablation au laser (LA-ICP-MS) à l’aide d’un modèle d’espace d’états des changements de régime. Ce modèle filtre le bruit de mesure du signal du milieu ambiant. Le signal filtré est ensuite converti en positions géographiques par l’étalonnage du strontium en fonction de la salinité. La méthode est validée par une étude de simulation et appliquée à 404 otolites de morue (Gadus morhua). [Traduit par la Rédaction]
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Christoffer Moesgaard Albertsen, Karin Hüssy, Simon Hansen Serre, Jakob Hemmer-Hansen, and Tonny Bernt Thomsen. 2021. Estimating migration patterns of fish from otolith chemical composition time series. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.
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