Scope of Lecture

• Production Ecology of Fish
• Ecology, which focuses on the "biological production" of fishes
• Here, "biological production" refers to the process by which organisms build up their own bodies and leave offspring
• In other words, this lecture means the "life history" of fish. It can also be called the study of "growth and survival" and "spawning and biological development".
• Because this lecture covers demersal fishes in marine environmental, there is little overlap with other lectures.

Larvae and a juvenile of Pacific cod Gadus macrocephalus