A preliminary survey on settlement and recruitment patterns of Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis) in Dardanelles,Turkey [Akdeniz midyesinin (Mytilus galloprovincialis) çanakkale boǧazi{dotless}'nda tutunma ve stoǧa kati{dotless}lma durumu üzerine bir ön çali{dotless}şma]

In this study,the settlement and growth of the mediterranean mussel,mytilus galloprovincialis,was monitored from september 2002 to february 2004 in kilya bay,dardanelles. water temperature ranged between 8.3-25°c,the average chlorophyll-a was 0.70 μgl-1. the mussel abundances on the ropes in kilya bay,indicated the highest density of mussels in november 2002 (14184 ind. 0.25 m-1) and march 2003 (15485 ind. 0.25 m-1) and lowest in february 2004 (3713 ind. 0.25 m-1). settlement was significantly different between samplings (p<0.05). at the end of 18 months,91.36% of spat on rope was smaller than 2.8 mm. the highest percentage of length class was 1.5-2.79 mm with 40.26%. even though mussel size reached a maximum of 55.7 mm,their density was very low,0.20%.