NOTE - Compensatory Growth in the Bay Scallop, Argopecten irradians (L.)1Peter J. Auster and Lance L. Stewart
University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences Institute
Marine Research Laboratory, Noank, Conn. 06340, USA
Source - Journal of Northwest Atlantic Fishery Science, Volume 5(1): 103-104
ISSN-0250-7408
The phenomenon of compensatory growth has been described as a negative correlation between growth increments in successive years and increasing size of individuals in a given year-class. Evidence is presented that bay scallops. Argopecten irradians, of the 1979 year-class, exhibited this growth phenomenon in the Poquonock River estuary, Groton, Connecticut.
1 Contribution No. 157, Marine Research Laboratory, University of Connecticut, Noank, Connecticut
Language - English