Zoological Sciences


Migration in Fishes: A Study

Article Number: UNN409187 Volume 01 | Issue 01 | January - 2019 ISSN: UA
12th Sep, 2018
18th Oct, 2018
28th Dec, 2018
28th Jan, 2019

Authors

Mahika Chaudhary

Abstract

The migration of animals is an amazing phenomenon in which freshwater fishes are also included. The migration or residency at one place of an individual fish helps in the evolution of costs and different strategies’ benefits by which the lifetime reproductive effort is increased. The life history of fishes like foraging and reproduction cannot be seen from a single habitat. This is because of the variation in habitat conditions such as temperature, climate etc. The migration in fishes is necessary for the completion of life cycle. The variability in migration is observed by physical scale that ranged from hundreds of meters to thousands of kilometers in case of coastal and stream dwelling fishes. This paper discussed about the causes of migration of freshwater fishes. There are many factors that affects the migration in fishes as the fishes’ migration is affect by the chemical and physical changes in water environment. And the migration in fishes has many advantages and disadvantages. Keywords: Migration, Factors, Variation, Habitat

Introduction

In Animal Kingdom, the journeys through the migration are prevalent among the kingdom of animals and most occurrence of the migration is done majorly for the purpose collecting food, for reproduction or the temperature adjustment. This all factors are sometimes called as the process of migration of breeding, feeding, and the wintering. In 2011, Binder et al also suggests about the conditions of habitat which are variable or the requirements or needs are changing for the particular habitat along with the needs that are continuously changing of the population too. Then In 1996, the advantage of fish migration is described as a habitat that is an added process for the purpose to avoid the circumstances which are adverse. The major aim of this particular paper is to study the activity of fish migration.

The migration of fishes

The process of migration takes place in many kinds of fishes on annual basis whereas in case of others, the involvement of individuals takes place in the particular habitat change which should be at definite stages of the development. There are various migration processes which are having the nature of diurnal. The diurnal nature involves the migration towards the vertical or tidal waves of the fishes which are mesopelagic present in the deep layer. The movement of fish species which are inland and are at a considerable distance and is present within the ways of water for the purpose of feeding and reproduction. The study of the radio tagging reports the movement to the depositing ground which is natal that ranges from the 100 to 300 km and the habits of migration for fishes may differ along the parameter of latitude. The Gastrosteus Aculeatus is the fish which is marine in case of the north side of cold waters whereas to the south direction, a dweller which is of freshwater is predominant (Obande, Dambo and Adah 2013). 

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APA StyleChaudhary, M. (2019). Migration in Fishes: A Study Academic Journal of Zoological Sciences, 1(1), 26-29.
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