Nutrient loading by anadromous alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus): contemporary patterns and predictions for restoration efforts
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Anadromous alewives ( Alosa pseudoharengus ) have the potential to alter the nutrient budgets of coastal lakes as they migrate into freshwater as adults and to sea as juveniles. Alewife runs are generally a source of nutrients to the freshwater lakes in which they spawn, but juveniles may export more nutrients than adults import in newly restored populations. A healthy run of alewives in Connecticut imports substantial quantities of phosphorus; mortality of alewives contributes 0.68 g P·fish–1, while surviving fish add 0.18 g P, 67% of which is excretion. Currently, alewives contribute 23% of the annual phosphorus load to Bride Lake, but this input was much greater historically, with larger runs of bigger fish contributing 2.5 times more phosphorus in the 1960s. A mesocosm experiment in a nearby lake showed that juvenile alewife growth is strongly density dependent, but early survival may be too low for juvenile outmigration to balance adult inputs. In eutrophic systems where nutrients are a concern, managers can limit nutrient loading by capping adult returns at a level where juvenile populations would not be suppressed.
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The annual migrations of anadromous fishes and subsequent carcass inputs have been shown to be important in rivers, but equivalent examination of terrestrial migrations is lacking.
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- West, D. C., Walters, A. W., Gephard, S., & Post, D. M.
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- Yale University (US)
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- Keywords
- alewife, nutrient loading, phosphorus, coastal lakes, fish migration, fish mortality, fish excretion, eutrophication, lake restoration, density dependence, Connecticut
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