Overview of daily mortality rates and <i>M₀</i> with comparisons to other species.

<p>(a) Distributions of daily mortality rates over 30 days after fertilization. Fine vertical grey lines represent the range between 5 and 95% quantiles, thick grey lines the interquartile range. Points represent observed mortality rates of scombrids larvae : · tunas (field observations), mackerel (field observations), tunas (rearing observations). (b) Boxplots of cumulative mortality rates over 15 days after fertilization, comparison with cumulative mortality 180 days after fertilization. (c) Estimated distribution for bluefin tuna. Comparison on x-axis to <i>M₀</i> of 4 small pelagic species.