Dietary analysis revealed that an impoundment population of Australian bass Macquaria novemaculeata holds a generalist niche, but one arising from persistent individual specialization and interindividual variation. This 'individual specialist' strategy appeared adaptive, but the strength of individual specialization was largely independent of variation in diet composition, except during blooms ...

Locomotor performance can influence the ecological and evolutionary success of a species. For fish, favorable outcomes of predator-prey encounters are often presumably due to robust acceleration ability. Although escape-response or "fast-start" studies utilizing high-speed cinematography are prevalent, little is known about the contribution of relative acceleration performance to ecological or ...

-A full-recovery technique was used in mortality experiments conducted with juveniles of American shad Alosa sapidissima and striped bass Morone saxatilis passed through Ossberger crossflow turbines to obtain antecedent information about their fish passage characteristics. Immediate turbine-induced mortality was 66% for 85-mm-long (total length) American shad. Turbineinduced mortality of stripe...

We conducted a field experiment to determine the survival rate of foul-hooked (hooked external to the oral cavity) largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) caught and released by recreational anglers. Of 42 largemouth bass caught with hard-plastic baits containing three treble hooks, 15 were hooked only within the mouth and 27 had at least one hook penetrating the external surface of the fish (i...

The aim of this work is to describe some operations in the category of regular holonomic D-modules with support a normal crossing and variation zero introduced in [2]. These operations will allow us to compute the characteristic cycle of the local cohomology supported on homogeneous prime ideals of these modules. In particular, we will be able to describe their Bass and dual Bass numbers.

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Invasive fish species Largemouth bass Bluegill Food web modeling Ecosystem attributes Lake Kawahara-oike The introduction of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) and bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus) into the freshwater ecosystems of Japan has resulted in the suppression and/or replacement of native species, generating considerable concerns among resource...

Beginning with detection of elevated levels of mercury in largemouth bass in 1989 (FSU 1990; Ware et al. 1990), it has become increasingly apparent that the South Florida Ecosystem is extensively contaminated. In response to continuing accretion of reports of significant Hg contamination, the State of Florida has issued human health advisories that ban or restrict consumption of freshwater fish...

Catch-and-release angling is popular in many parts of the world and plays an increasingly important role in management of recreational fisheries. Although the magnitude of catch-and-release mortality is well documented for many species, potential sublethal effects have been little studied. An experiment was conducted to assess directly the effects of catch-and-release angling on growth of large...