caa a22 4500 606228128 CHVBK 20210128101202.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10641-014-0353-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10641-014-0353-5 Seasonal residency of adult weakfish ( Cynoscion regalis ) in a small temperate estuary based on acoustic telemetry: a local perspective of a coast wide phenomenon [Elektronische Daten] [Jason Turnure, Thomas Grothues, Kenneth Able] Weakfish (Cynoscion regalis, Bloch and Schneider), an economically important species, enter estuaries during migration along inner-continental shelf habitat for use as nursery, feeding, and spawning habitat. The residency and therefore seasonal turnover of individuals in estuarine habitat is unknown. Aspects of seasonal residency in the relatively unaltered Mullica River-Great Bay estuary in southern New Jersey were evaluated during 2007 and 2008. Acoustic telemetry revealed estuarine residency of adult weakfish (273-864mm TL) on the scale of days to several months (mean: 55days). Egress from the estuary occurred throughout the study period but was lowest during July and highest during the final month of detection in November corresponding to seasonally declining water temperatures. Individuals maintained a constrained distribution within the estuary relative to the available range of water quality parameters with average encountered temperature (22.8°C), salinity (30.1), dissolved oxygen (6.9mg/L), and pH (7.8) all being higher than the annual estuary-wide mean value. The long residence time indicated the importance of the estuary as a seasonal destination, rather than intermittent resting area for some individuals and points to a diversity of individual migration patterns typical of other species from this region. Given that weakfish used small estuarine habitats for extended periods in both years of this study, estuaries such as this one may serve as important sites for spawning, feeding and other functions. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Weakfish nationallicence Estuarine nationallicence Residency nationallicence Egress nationallicence Water quality nationallicence Temperature nationallicence Acoustic telemetry nationallicence Turnure Jason Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution and Marine Field Station, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 800 c/o 132 Great Bay Blvd., 08087-2004, Tuckerton, NJ, USA aut Grothues Thomas Marine Field Station, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 800 c/o 132 Great Bay Blvd., 08087-2004, Tuckerton, NJ, USA aut Able Kenneth Marine Field Station, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 800 c/o 132 Great Bay Blvd., 08087-2004, Tuckerton, NJ, USA aut Environmental Biology of Fishes Springer Netherlands 98/5(2015-05-01), 1207-1221 0378-1909 98:5<1207 2015 98 10641 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-014-0353-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-014-0353-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Turnure Jason Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution and Marine Field Station, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 800 c/o 132 Great Bay Blvd., 08087-2004, Tuckerton, NJ, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Grothues Thomas Marine Field Station, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 800 c/o 132 Great Bay Blvd., 08087-2004, Tuckerton, NJ, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Able Kenneth Marine Field Station, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 800 c/o 132 Great Bay Blvd., 08087-2004, Tuckerton, NJ, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Biology of Fishes Springer Netherlands 98/5(2015-05-01), 1207-1221 0378-1909 98:5<1207 2015 98 10641