Simulation of drift of capelin larvae in the Barents Sea
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Abstract
A model system consisting of a regional ocean circulation model and a particlebased
larval transport model has been used to study the drift of capelin larvae in the
Barents Sea. The modelled current pattern reproduces the important features in the
Norwegian Coastal Current and the Norwegian Atlantic Current.
For the four seasons 1988-91 particles were released at 11 spawning areas along the
Troms-Finnmark-Kola coast. The particle trajectories from the model do not
reproduce the offshore extent of the observed distributions of 0-group capelin in
August/September. No clear reason for this discrepancy between the model results
and the observations is found, but several factors are discussed.
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HavforskningsinstituttetSeries
Fisken og havet1997-09