ALBERT

Description: Water parameters in the 2 years before spawning of F0 (08.02.2016-06.03.2018) and during larval and juvenile phase of F1: Larval period until 17.05.2018 (48 dph, 900 dd) and 01.06.2018 (63 dph, ~900 dd) for warm and cold life condition respectively, for the juveniles until 28.09.2018 (180 dph, ~4000 dd) and 12.02.2019 (319 dph, ~5100 dd) for warm and cold conditioned fish respectively. Means ± s.e. over all replicate tanks per condition. Temperature (Temp.), pH (free scale), salinity, oxygen and total alkalinity (TA) were measured weekly in F1 and monthly in F0; sea water (SW) measurements were conducted in 2017 and 2018. Water parameters during larval and early juvenile phase of F0: Larval period until (45 dph, 900 dd, 06.12.2013), early juveniles until 1.5 years. Means ± s.e.m. over all measurements per condition (triplicate tanks in larvae, single tanks in juveniles). Temperature (Temp.) and pH (NBS scale) were measured daily. pH (total scale), salinity, phosphate, silicate and total alkalinity (TA) were measured once at the beginning and once at the end of the larval phase and 9 times during juvenile phase; PCO2 was calculated with CO2sys; A–Ambient PCO2, D1000 –ambient + 1000 µatm CO2, L – Larvae, J – Juveniles.

Description: Ten female (mean 179 g wet mass (WM) and 25.3 cm standard length (SL) and ten male (182 g WM, 24.5 cm SL) Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus L.) were obtained from Kiel Bight (54°22'N, 010°09'E) and strip-spawned. Their offspring were subjected to feeding and growth experiments using different prey size spectra in controlled laboratory settings at different temperatures. In 4- (13°C) or 7-day (7°C) experiments, the effect of prey size on larval foraging behaviour, specific growth rate (SGR) and biochemical condition (RNA:DNA, RD) was tested. On a daily basis, the swimming behaviour and foraging activity of these larvae was recorded.

Description: Ten female (mean 179 g wet mass (WM) and 25.3 cm standard length (SL) and ten male (182 g WM, 24.5 cm SL) Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus L.) were obtained from Kiel Bight (54°22'N, 010°09'E) and strip-spawned. Their offspring were subjected to feeding and growth experiments using different prey size spectra in controlled laboratory settings at different temperatures. In 4- (13°C) or 7-day (7°C) experiments, the effect of prey size on larval foraging behaviour, specific growth rate (SGR) and biochemical condition (RNA:DNA, RD) was tested. On a daily basis, the swimming behaviour and foraging activity of these larvae was recorded.

Description: Ten female (mean 179 g wet mass (WM) and 25.3 cm standard length (SL) and ten male (182 g WM, 24.5 cm SL) Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus L.) were obtained from Kiel Bight (54°22'N, 010°09'E) and strip-spawned. Their offspring were subjected to feeding and growth experiments using different prey size spectra in controlled laboratory settings at different temperatures. In 4- (13°C) or 7-day (7°C) experiments, the effect of prey size on larval foraging behaviour, specific growth rate (SGR) and biochemical condition (RNA:DNA, RD) was tested. On a daily basis, the swimming behaviour and foraging activity of these larvae was recorded.

Description: Ongoing climate change is leading to warmer and more acidic oceans. The future distribution of fish within the oceans depends on their capacity to adapt to these new environments. Only few studies have examined the effects of ocean acidification (OA) and warming (OW) on the metabolism of long-lived fish over successive generations. We therefore aimed to investigate the effect of OA on larval and juvenile growth and metabolism on two successive generations of European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) as well as the effect of OAW on larval and juvenile growth and metabolism of the second generation. European sea bass is a large economically important fish species with a long generation time. F0 larvae were produced at the aquaculture facility Aquastream (Ploemeur-Lorient, France) and obtained at 2 days post-hatch (dph). From 2 dph F0 larvae were reared in the laboratory in two PCO2 conditions (ambient and Δ1000). Larval rearing was performed in a temperature controlled room and water temperatures were fixed to 19°C in F0. In juveniles and adults, water temperatures of F0 sea bass were adjusted to ambient temperature in the Bay of Brest during summer (up to 19°C), but were kept constant at 15 and 12°C for juveniles and adults, respectively, when ambient temperature decreased below these values. F1 embryos were obtained by artificial reproduction of F0 broodstock fish. Fertilized eggs were incubated at 15°C and at the same PCO2 conditions as respective F0. Division of F1 larvae from egg rearing tanks into experimental tanks took place at 2 dph. F1 larvae were reared in four OAW conditions: two temperatures (cold and warm life condition, C and W) and two PCO2 conditions (ambient and Δ1000). Larval rearing was performed in a temperature controlled room and water temperatures were fixed to 15 and 20°C for C and W larvae, respectively. In juveniles, water temperatures of F1 sea bass were adjusted to ambient temperature in the Bay of Brest during summer (up to 19°C), but were kept constant at 15°C when ambient temperature decreased below these values. F1-W was always 5°C warmer than the F1-C treatment. OAW conditions for F0 and F1 rearing were chosen to follow the predictions of the IPCC for the next 130 years: ΔT = 5°C and ΔPCO2 = 1000 µatm, following RCP 8.5. We analysed larval and juvenile growth in F0 and F1. Larval routine metabolic rates (RMR, in F1), juvenile standard metabolic rates (SMR, in F0 and F1) and juvenile critical oxygen concentrations (PO2crit, in F0 and F1) were obtained on individuals via intermittent flow-respirometry. Measurements were conducted at the rearing conditions of the respective larva or juvenile. Fish were fasted for 3h and 48-72h for larvae and juveniles, respectively. After the respirometry trial, larvae were photographed to measure there body length and frozen until measurement of dry mass. Juveniles body length and wet mass was directly determined with calipers and a balance.

Description: Ten female (mean 179 g wet mass (WM) and 25.3 cm standard length (SL) and ten male (182 g WM, 24.5 cm SL) Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus L.) were obtained from Kiel Bight (54°22'N, 010°09'E) and strip-spawned. The eggs were strip-spawned onto polyethylene plates, fertilized and incubated within aerated 250-L tanks containing 16 (±0.2) psu, 10 (±0.12)°C water at a light regime of 14 h (light):10 h (dark). After hatch on April 17, 2007, larvae were reared in semi-static (30% water exchange day−1) 100-L tanks (Ø 60 cm) at 17 (±0.5) psu and either 13.2 (±0.4), 10 (±0.4) or 7.2 (±0.3)°C. Tanks were “greened” with R. baltica (50,000 cells mL−1) and larvae were fed ad libitum rations of newly-hatched A. tonsa nauplii which corresponded to 5 prey mL−1 until a larval age of 13 days post hatch (dph) and then 2 prey mL−1 of early and late naupliar and copepodite stages. During rearing, larval SL- and dry mass (DM)-at-age was monitored every 2 to 3 days.

Description: Ongoing climate change is leading to warmer and more acidic oceans. The future distribution of fish within the oceans depends on their capacity to adapt to these new environments. Only few studies have examined the effects of ocean acidification (OA) and warming (OW) on the metabolism of long-lived fish over successive generations. We therefore aimed to investigate the effect of OA on larval and juvenile growth and metabolism on two successive generations of European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) as well as the effect of OAW on larval and juvenile growth and metabolism of the second generation. European sea bass is a large economically important fish species with a long generation time. F0 larvae were produced at the aquaculture facility Aquastream (Ploemeur-Lorient, France) and obtained at 2 days post-hatch (dph). From 2 dph F0 larvae were reared in the laboratory in two PCO2 conditions (ambient and Δ1000). Larval rearing was performed in a temperature controlled room and water temperatures were fixed to 19°C in F0. In juveniles and adults, water temperatures of F0 sea bass were adjusted to ambient temperature in the Bay of Brest during summer (up to 19°C), but were kept constant at 15 and 12°C for juveniles and adults, respectively, when ambient temperature decreased below these values. F1 embryos were obtained by artificial reproduction of F0 broodstock fish. Fertilized eggs were incubated at 15°C and at the same PCO2 conditions as respective F0. Division of F1 larvae from egg rearing tanks into experimental tanks took place at 2 dph. F1 larvae were reared in four OAW conditions: two temperatures (cold and warm life condition, C and W) and two PCO2 conditions (ambient and Δ1000). Larval rearing was performed in a temperature controlled room and water temperatures were fixed to 15 and 20°C for C and W larvae, respectively. In juveniles, water temperatures of F1 sea bass were adjusted to ambient temperature in the Bay of Brest during summer (up to 19°C), but were kept constant at 15°C when ambient temperature decreased below these values. F1-W was always 5°C warmer than the F1-C treatment. OAW conditions for F0 and F1 rearing were chosen to follow the predictions of the IPCC for the next 130 years: ΔT = 5°C and ΔPCO2 = 1000 µatm, following RCP 8.5. We analysed larval and juvenile growth in F0 and F1. Larval routine metabolic rates (RMR, in F1), juvenile standard metabolic rates (SMR, in F0 and F1) and juvenile critical oxygen concentrations (PO2crit, in F0 and F1) were obtained on individuals via intermittent flow-respirometry. Measurements were conducted at the rearing conditions of the respective larva or juvenile. Fish were fasted for 3h and 48-72h for larvae and juveniles, respectively. After the respirometry trial, larvae were photographed to measure there body length and frozen until measurement of dry mass. Juveniles body length and wet mass was directly determined with calipers and a balance.

Description: Ongoing climate change is leading to warmer and more acidic oceans. The future distribution of fish within the oceans depends on their capacity to adapt to these new environments. Only few studies have examined the effects of ocean acidification (OA) and warming (OW) on the metabolism of long-lived fish over successive generations. We therefore aimed to investigate the effect of OA on larval and juvenile growth and metabolism on two successive generations of European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) as well as the effect of OAW on larval and juvenile growth and metabolism of the second generation. European sea bass is a large economically important fish species with a long generation time. F0 larvae were produced at the aquaculture facility Aquastream (Ploemeur-Lorient, France) and obtained at 2 days post-hatch (dph). From 2 dph F0 larvae were reared in the laboratory in two PCO2 conditions (ambient and Δ1000). Larval rearing was performed in a temperature controlled room and water temperatures were fixed to 19°C in F0. In juveniles and adults, water temperatures of F0 sea bass were adjusted to ambient temperature in the Bay of Brest during summer (up to 19°C), but were kept constant at 15 and 12°C for juveniles and adults, respectively, when ambient temperature decreased below these values. F1 embryos were obtained by artificial reproduction of F0 broodstock fish. Fertilized eggs were incubated at 15°C and at the same PCO2 conditions as respective F0. Division of F1 larvae from egg rearing tanks into experimental tanks took place at 2 dph. F1 larvae were reared in four OAW conditions: two temperatures (cold and warm life condition, C and W) and two PCO2 conditions (ambient and Δ1000). Larval rearing was performed in a temperature controlled room and water temperatures were fixed to 15 and 20°C for C and W larvae, respectively. In juveniles, water temperatures of F1 sea bass were adjusted to ambient temperature in the Bay of Brest during summer (up to 19°C), but were kept constant at 15°C when ambient temperature decreased below these values. F1-W was always 5°C warmer than the F1-C treatment. OAW conditions for F0 and F1 rearing were chosen to follow the predictions of the IPCC for the next 130 years: ΔT = 5°C and ΔPCO2 = 1000 µatm, following RCP 8.5. We analysed larval and juvenile growth in F0 and F1. Larval routine metabolic rates (RMR, in F1), juvenile standard metabolic rates (SMR, in F0 and F1) and juvenile critical oxygen concentrations (PO2crit, in F0 and F1) were obtained on individuals via intermittent flow-respirometry. Measurements were conducted at the rearing conditions of the respective larva or juvenile. Fish were fasted for 3h and 48-72h for larvae and juveniles, respectively. After the respirometry trial, larvae were photographed to measure there body length and frozen until measurement of dry mass. Juveniles body length and wet mass was directly determined with calipers and a balance.

Description: European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) is a large, economically important fish species with a long generation time whose long-term resilience to ocean acidification (OA) and warming (OW) is not clear. We incubated sea bass from Brittany (France) for two generations (〉5 years in total) under ambient and predicted OA conditions (PCO2: 650 and 1700 µatm) crossed with ambient and predicted ocean OW conditions in F1 (temperature: 15-18°C and 20-23°C) to investigate the effects of climate change on larval and juvenile growth and metabolic rate. We found that in F1, OA as single stressor at ambient temperature did not affect larval or juvenile growth and OW increased developmental time and growth rates, but OAW decreased larval size at metamorphosis. Larval routine and juvenile standard metabolic rates were significantly lower in cold compared to warm conditioned fish and also lower in F0 compared to F1 fish. We did not find any effect of OA as a single stressor on metabolic rates. Juvenile PO2crit was not affected by OA or OAW in both generations. We discuss the potential underlying mechanisms resulting in the resilience of F0 and F1 larvae and juveniles to OA and in the beneficial effects of OW on F1 larval growth and metabolic rate, but on the other hand in the vulnerability of F1, but not F0 larvae to OAW. With regard to the ecological perspective, we conclude that recruitment of larvae and early juveniles to nursery areas might decrease under OAW conditions but individuals reaching juvenile phase might benefit from increased performance at higher temperatures.