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Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT)

New study reinforces link between gill size and oxygen uptake in fish

New study reinforces link between gill size and oxygen uptake in fish

Data from 33 fish species further supports the argument that small differences between fish’s oxygen consumption increase and gill surface area growth do not invalidate the principles of the Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT).

Posted in 2025, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with climate change, Daniel Pauly, fish, Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT), Johannes Müller, physiology, Publications, Sea Around Us

Measuring Baltic herring. Photo by Aleksey Kusnetsov, Wikimedia Commons.

Taking seriously the explanations on shrinking fish in a warming world

Given that the temperature increase and fish shrinking trends are not slowing down, the debate around the mechanistic models that explain their causes has become nothing but heated.

Posted in 2024, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with climate change, Daniel Pauly, Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT), Johannes Müller, Research, Sea Around Us, shrinking fish

New FCRR: Gill size and temperature as governing factors in fish growth: A generalization of von Bertalanffy’s growth formula (2nd edition)

New FCRR: Gill size and temperature as governing factors in fish growth: A generalization of von Bertalanffy’s growth formula (2nd edition)

Want to read Dr. Daniel Pauly’s PhD thesis? This FCRR contains the 1979 dissertation, but with minor typographical errors corrected and tables and figures reorganized for clarity.

Posted in 2024, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Daniel Pauly, FCRR, fish, Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT), physiology, Publications

Keep growing – Fish’s growth is not reduced by spawning

Keep growing – Fish’s growth is not reduced by spawning

Contrary to what is stated in biology textbooks, the growth of fish doesn’t slow down when and because they start spawning. In fact, their growth accelerates after they reproduce, according to a new article published in Science.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with biology, Daniel Pauly, faculty, fish, Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT), Research, Sea Around Us

Unrelated theories coincide on link between respiratory stress and fish reproduction

Unrelated theories coincide on link between respiratory stress and fish reproduction

A physiological explanation and an evolutionary explanation related to the moment fish become sexually active – and spawn for the first time – have turned out to be two sides of the same coin

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with climate change, Daniel Pauly, fish stocks, Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT), Sea Around Us

Sea sponges need oxygen, as fish and people do

Sea sponges need oxygen, as fish and people do

New research indicates that sea sponges’ growth depends on their oxygen supply, in a manner similar to more complex animals such as fishes.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Daniel Pauly, faculty, Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT), Research, Sea Around Us, sponges

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