Publication Abstract

Fish migration, horizontal

G.P. Arnold

Unlike migration in insects, for which migration usually entails emigration in response to unfavourable environmental conditions, fish migration usually involves an annual migration circuit, which each individual sustains for several years, sometimes decades. In temperate and arctic waters, where fish commonly occupy several separate feeding and spawning areas at different seasons, migration usually involves an annual two-way journey, often over considerable distances.

References:

G.P. Arnold, 2001. Fish migration, horizontal. pp947-956 In: (Steele, J, Thorpe, S. and Turekian, K. (eds.)) Encyclopedia of ocean sciences. Academic Press, London