Phytoplankton uptake and growth rate in the Japanese egg cockle Fulvia mutica

International Aquatic Research

مقاله 6، دوره 11، شماره 4، اسفند 2019، صفحه 359-375   

شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.1007/s40071-019-00244-0

نویسندگان

Sou Nagasoe^{* 1}؛ Tetsuji Hisada²؛ Goh Nishitani³؛ Hiroyuki Takeuchi⁴؛ Kazutaka Sakiyama⁴

¹Seikai National Fisheries Research Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Nagasaki-shi, Nagasaki, 851-2213, Japan

²Fisheries Technology Department, Kyoto Prefectural Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Technology Center, Miyazu, Kyoto, 626-0052, Japan

³Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8577, Japan

⁴Japan Sea National Fisheries Research Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Miyazu, Kyoto, 626-0052, Japan

چکیده

To clarify the relationship between the quantity of food ingested by and the growth rate of the Japanese egg cockle Fulvia mutica (Reeve), we conducted a laboratory breeding experiment for 2 weeks and estimated the chlorophyll a (chl-a) concentrations in water and the increments in shell length and soft-body weight of this species under five chl-a concentrations. Moreover, we compared the relationship between cockle growth (changes in soft-body weight and shell length) and their feeding environment observed in the laboratory experiment with the results of a field investigation conducted at two sites in the Sea of Japan, Kumihama Bay (35°38′5″ N, 134°54′00″ E) and Kunda Bay (35°33′30″ N, 135°15′4″ E). The changes in soft-body weight were similar in both laboratory and field investigations, but those in shell length were not. We, therefore, considered shell length changes as unsuitable for evaluating the relationship between growth and feeding in F. mutica. Based on the changes in soft-body weight, it was possible to classify the feeding environment of this species into the following three types: (1) < 1.52 μg chl-a L−1, negative feeding environment for cockle growth; (2) 1.52–5.71 μg chl-a L−1, neutral feeding environment for cockle growth; (3) > 5.71 μg chl-a L−1, positive feeding environment for cockle growth (growth increased with increasing chl-a concentration up to about 11 μg chl-a L−1). These results indicate that maintaining chl-a concentration in the breeding water within 5.71–11 μg chl-a L−1 is desirable for rearing Japanese egg cockle.

کلیدواژه‌ها

Food demand؛ Bivalve؛ Mollusk؛ Feeding environment؛ Ingestion rate؛ Clearance rate