In the past 100 years since the birth of fisheries oceanography, research on the early life history of fishes, particularly the larval stage, has been extensive, and much progress has been made in identifying the mechanisms by which factors such as feeding success, predation, or dispersal can influence larval survival....
Despite being well adapted for feeding in cold water on their North Atlantic feeding
grounds, Atlantic bluefin tuna undertake long migrations to reach warm, low productivity spawn -
ing grounds in the Gulf of Mexico and Mediterranean Sea. Environmental conditions within
spawning areas have been presumed to benefit larval survival,...