Hiding and feeding in floating seaweed: Floating seaweed clumps as possible refuges or feeding grounds for fishes Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Floating seaweed is considered to be an important habitat for juvenile fishes due to the provision of food, shelter, a visual orientation point and passive transport. The importance of the presence of the highly dynamical seaweed clumps from the North Sea to juvenile neustonic fishes was investigated by analysing both neuston samples (without seaweed) and seaweed samples concerning fish community structure, and length-frequency distributions and ...