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Preliminary study on homing, site fidelity, and diel movement of black rockfish Sebastes inermis measured by acoustic telemetry

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Several species of fish exhibit strong homing ability and distinct site fidelity to their original habitats and spawning sites. We have studied the homing ability, site fidelity, and diel movement patterns of three nocturnal black rockfish Sebastes inermis. The patterns were studied by radio-linked acoustic positioning system (VRAP) and fixed monitoring receivers (VR2) in Maizuru Bay, Japan from June to July 2004. All tagged fish were displaced by 80–120 m, but they returned to their respective captured sites at dusk, regardless of the time of release. The fish tagged with a depth sensor transmitter displayed active vertical movement just after the release, and subsequently swam near the bottom depth around the captured site. After homing, they displayed small home ranges [average 815 ± 265 m2 (SD)] around a single rocky area with one or two core areas (average 64 ± 30 m2). One core area was utilized during the daylight and dark periods, whereas the other was used primarily during the dark period. The depth-tagged fish primarily used the depth of the rock crevice during the daylight, and it spent its dark period between the surface and the deeper bottom depth.

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Acknowledgments

We profoundly thank Reiko Orii, Kei Tsuburaya, Yasushi Mitsunaga, Reiji Masuda, and Masahiro Ueno who kindly supported the fieldwork and the analyses. We sincerely thank all participants in this fieldwork who helped us. We would like to express our appreciation to Captain Kazuo Sato for operating the research boat. This study was partly supported by Grant-in-Aid for Science Research (16255011, 16658081 and 21688015), Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (15-5686 and 18-2409), the 21st Century Center of Excellence Program “Informatics Research Center for Development of Knowledge Society Infrastructure” and the Global COE program “Informatics Education and Research Center for Knowledge-Circulating Society”, Japan.

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    Present address: Graduate School of Agriculture, Kinki University, Nakamachi 3327-204, Nara, 631-8505, Japan

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  1. Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

    Hiromichi Mitamura, Nobuaki Arai, Takashi Yokota, Junichi Okuyama, Yuuki Kawabata & Tohya Yasuda

  2. Department of Ocean Science, Faculty of Marine Science, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Minato, Tokyo, 108-8477, Japan

    Keiichi Uchida, Yoshinori Miyamoto & Toshiharu Kakihara

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Mitamura, H., Uchida, K., Miyamoto, Y. et al. Preliminary study on homing, site fidelity, and diel movement of black rockfish Sebastes inermis measured by acoustic telemetry. Fish Sci 75, 1133–1140 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12562-009-0142-9

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