Abstract
Regular samplings of the Japanese sand lance Ammodytes personatus were carried out between 1991 and 2003 in Ise Bay in central Japan to estimate the number of adults, egg production and the number of recruits. The estimated minimum and maximum number of adults was 0.48 billion and 37.64 billion (78.4-fold variation). Age-one adults dominated in each year, and they comprised more than 80% of the total population in ten years out of the twelve years of observations. The total egg production ranged from 0.5 to 22.2 trillion (44.4-fold variation), and the total number of recruits ranged from 3.36 to 102.83 billion (30.6-fold variation). These interannual variations were both smaller than the interannual variations in the number of adults. As the total number of adults increased, the total egg production gradually became asymptotic at the saturation level, and the egg production per adult female decreased. In addition, the number of recruits per egg decreased as the total number of adults increased. It was suggested that both egg production and the initial process of mortality before recruitment exhibit density dependency.
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