Metabarcoding confirms the opportunistic foraging behaviour of Atlantic bluefin tuna and reveals the importance of gelatinous prey

B Günther, JM Fromentin, L Metral, S Arnaud-Haond - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Studies of the diet, feeding habits and trophic activity of top marine predators are essential
for understanding their trophodynamics. The main direct method used for such studies thus …

Environmental conditions along tuna larval dispersion: Insights on the spawning habitat and impact on their development stages

S Russo, M Torri, B Patti, M Musco, T Masullo… - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Estimated larval backward trajectories of three Tuna species, namely, Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
(Thunnus thynnus, Linnaeus, 1758), Bullet Tuna (Auxis Rochei, Risso, 1801) and Albacore …

Active prey selection in develo** larvae of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) in spawning grounds of the Gulf of Mexico

A Shiroza, E Malca, JT Lamkin, T Gerard… - Journal of Plankton …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Bluefin tuna spawn in restricted areas of subtropical oligotrophic seas. Here, we investigate
the zooplankton prey and feeding selectivity of early larval stages of Atlantic bluefin tuna …

Fine-scale horizontal distributions of multiple species of larval tuna off the Nansei Islands, Japan

A Tawa, T Kodama, K Sakuma, T Ishihara… - Marine Ecology …, 2020 - int-res.com
To quantitatively evaluate the distribution of tuna larvae relative to oceanographic
conditions, we conducted investigations off the Nansei Islands in the western North Pacific in …

Is Metagenomic Analysis an Effective Way to Analyze Fish Feeding Habits? A Case of the Yellowfin Sea Bream Acanthopagrus latus (Houttuyn) in Daya Bay

W Pan, C Qin, T Zuo, G Yu, W Zhu, H Ma… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Yellowfin seabream, Acanthopagrus latus, is one of the most important species in terms of
stock enhancement in China. However, using metagenomic techniques to explore the …

DNA metabarcoding to assess prey overlap between tuna and seabirds in the Eastern tropical Atlantic: Implications for an ecosystem-based management

AR Carreiro, JA Ramos, VA Mata, NM Almeida… - Marine Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Overfishing has been drastically changing food webs in marine ecosystems, and it is pivotal
to quantify these changes at the ecosystem level. This is especially important for ecosystems …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of the trophic sources and pathways of mesozooplankton and ichthyoplankton in the Kuroshio current and its neighboring waters

T Kobari, A Taniguchi, M Hirata, G Kume… - Progress in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Commercially important fish spend their vulnerable early life stages in the Kuroshio Current,
resulting in high fishery production even in the vicinity of poor prey availability under …

The distribution and early growth of juvenile Pacific bluefin tuna Thunnus orientalis around Sado Island in the eastern Sea of Japan

H Tanaka, T Kodama, N Suzuki, Y Mochizuki… - Fisheries science, 2020 - Springer
The distribution and early growth of juvenile Pacific bluefin tuna (PBF) Thunnus orientalis
were studied based on trawl surveys conducted around Sado Island, eastern Sea of Japan …

Spawning site distribution of a bluefin tuna reduces jellyfish predation on early life stages

D Ottmann, Ø Fiksen, M Martín… - Limnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Bluefin tunas across the world migrate long distances to spawn in particularly warm and
oligotrophic areas constrained by oceanographic fronts. The low abundance of predators in …

Similarities of distributions and feeding habits between Bullet tuna, Auxis rochei, and Pacific bluefin tuna, Thunnus orientalis, larvae in the southern Sea of Japan

T Kodama, A Tawa, T Ishihara, Y Tanaka - Progress in Oceanography, 2022 - Elsevier
Bullet tuna (Auxis rochei: BT) larvae and juveniles are found during summer in the Sea of
Japan, where those of Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis: PBF) also occur. However …