Vital demographic statistics and management of the baldchin groper (Choerodon rubescens) from the Houtman Abrolhos Islands

2006 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Nardi ◽  
Stephen J. Newman ◽  
Michael J. Moran ◽  
Geoffrey P. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Stock Assessment ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Gonad Development ◽  
Total Mortality ◽  
Instantaneous Rate ◽  
Mobile Species ◽  
Discard Mortality ◽  
Aggregation Behaviour ◽  
Houtman Abrolhos Islands

In order to evaluate appropriate management strategies, the life history and demography of the baldchin groper (Choerodon rubescens) was examined from speared samples and commercial catches at the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia. Ages were estimated from sections of sagittal otoliths, validated by oxytetracycline labelling of fish recaptured after a minimum of 12 months at liberty. Male C. rubescens (n = 147; 373–639 mm) ranged from ages 5 to 20 years, and females (n = 354; 226–610 mm) ranged from 2 to 13 years. The population underwent a transition in dominance from females to males at age 11–12 years and 500–550 mm total length. Gonad development was seasonal and spawning was evident from spring to summer (September–January), with evidence of aggregation behaviour. Indirect estimates of the annual instantaneous rate of natural mortality (M) ranged from 0.05 to 0.58 and total mortality (Z), ranged from 0.21 to 0.56, rendering stock assessment highly uncertain. The limited geographic range, slow growth, long potential life span, protogynous sex change, aggregative spawning and high discard mortality rates render C. rubescens susceptible to overfishing. In order to manage this mobile species successfully, marine protected areas must continue to be supplemented by strict catch controls in fished areas.

Population biology of carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) in the mid-Murray River and Barmah Forest Wetlands, Australia

2005 ◽  
Vol 56 (8) ◽  
pp. 1151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Brown ◽  
K. P. Sivakumaran ◽  
Daniel Stoessel ◽  
Annie Giles
Keyword(s):  
Cyprinus Carpio ◽  
Population Biology ◽  
Stock Assessment ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Total Mortality ◽  
Pest Species ◽  
Average Growth ◽  
Murray River ◽  
Carp Cyprinus Carpio ◽  
Potential Pest

The present study quantitatively describes a significant stock of carp (Cyprinus carpio L.), an exotic pest species, in a temperate riverine floodplain wetland. Intensity and duration of flooding influenced relative abundance, distribution and recruitment. Average growth (mm) in length was described with the von Bertalanffy growth model for males (L∞ = 489, k = 0.249, t0 = –0.519), and females (L∞ = 594, k = 0.177, t0 = –0.609) to age 28. Variation in growth was described with a lognormal distribution of k. Total mortality (Z year–1) was 0.268–0.407 for males, 0.311–0.422 for females, 3.24 for age-0 juveniles and 1.80 for age-1 juveniles. Natural mortality (M year–1) was 0.199 for males and 0.262 for females. Fishing mortality (F year–1) was <0.05 for males and 0.11–0.30 for females. Gonadal changes indicated extended spawning seasons peaking in September 1999 and October 2000. Median sizes and ages at initial maturation were 307 mm, 584 g and 1.1 years for males and 328 mm, 688 g and 2.7 years for females. Sex ratio varied significantly with age from equal as juveniles to a significant male-bias as adults. This description will enable better stock assessment and development of simulations that evaluate potential pest management strategies.

scholarly journals LAJU PERTUMBUHAN, LAJU KEMATIAN DAN EKSPLOITASI IKAN TONGKOL KOMO, Euthynnus affinis (Cantor 1849), DI PERAIRAN SAMUDERA HINDIA BARAT SUMATERA

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Irwan Jatmiko ◽  
Ririk Kartika Sulistyaningsih ◽  
Duto Nugroho
Keyword(s):  
Stock Assessment ◽  
Total Mortality ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Instantaneous Rate ◽  
Exploitation Rate ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Euthynnus Affinis ◽  
The One ◽  
Base Data ◽  
Length Frequency Data

Tongkol komo (Euthynnus affinis Cantor, 1849)merupakan hasil tangkapan utama bagi nelayan pukat cincin di Samudera Hindia sebelah barat Sumatera. Penelitian ditujukan untukmemperoleh data dan informasi tentang estimasi laju pertumbuhan, laju kematian dan laju eksploitasi ikan tongkol komo. Analisis dilakukan berdasarkan himpunan data frekuensi panjang cagak sebanyak 1.325 ekor hasil tangkapan pukat cincin yang didaratkan di Pelabuhan Sibolga. Contoh ikan dikumpulkan secara bulanan dari bulan Juli 2012 hingga Februari 2013. Pendugaan parameter dilakukan menggunakan program FISAT II (FAO-ICLARM Stock Assessment Tools). Hasil kajian menunjukkan kisaran panjang cagak antara 30 - 60 cm, panjang asimptotik (L∞)= 63,5 cm, laju pertumbuhan(K) = 0,63/tahun dan umur teoritis pada saat panjang ke 0 ( t0 ) = -0,21 tahun. Estimasi laju kematian total tahunan (Z) sebesar 2,40/tahun, laju kematian alami (M) sebesar 1,07/tahun dan laju kematian akibat penangkapan(F) sebesar 1,33/tahun. Perkiraan Laju eksploitasi (E) = 0,55 mengindikasikan bahwa tingkat pemanfaatan berada pada tingkat yang moderat.Kawakawa (Euthynnus affinis Cantor, 1849) is the one of the major catch of fishermen in the Indian Ocean west off Sumatera. This study was aimed to investigate data and information on growth, mortality and the exploitation rates of kawakawa. Analyses were carried out based on a number of 1,325 length frequency data from purse seine fishery landed in Sibolga Fishing Port. Monthly base data were collected from July 2012 to February 2013. The specimens ranged from 30 to 60 cm FL. parameters were determined through a packageprogramof FISAT II (FAO-ICLARM StockAssessment Tools). The result showed that asymptotic length (L∞) were 63.5 cmFL, growth rates (K) 0.63/yr and estimated t0 -0.21 years. The annual instantaneous rate of total mortality (Z) was 2.40/yr, the natural mortality (M) was 1.07/yr and the fishing mortality (F) was 1.33/yr. The exploitation rate (E = 0.55) indicated that E. affinis was moderately exploited in the area.

scholarly journals Modelling marine protected areas: insights and hurdles

2015 ◽  
Vol 370 (1681) ◽  
pp. 20140278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Fulton ◽  
Nicholas J. Bax ◽  
Rodrigo H. Bustamante ◽  
Jeffrey M. Dambacher ◽  
Catherine Dichmont ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Simulation Models ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Scales ◽  
Alternative Interventions ◽  
Mobile Species ◽  
Development Scenarios ◽  
Marine Realm ◽  
Modelling Environment

Models provide useful insights into conservation and resource management issues and solutions. Their use to date has highlighted conditions under which no-take marine protected areas (MPAs) may help us to achieve the goals of ecosystem-based management by reducing pressures, and where they might fail to achieve desired goals. For example, static reserve designs are unlikely to achieve desired objectives when applied to mobile species or when compromised by climate-related ecosystem restructuring and range shifts. Modelling tools allow planners to explore a range of options, such as basing MPAs on the presence of dynamic oceanic features, and to evaluate the potential future impacts of alternative interventions compared with ‘no-action’ counterfactuals, under a range of environmental and development scenarios. The modelling environment allows the analyst to test if indicators and management strategies are robust to uncertainties in how the ecosystem (and the broader human–ecosystem combination) operates, including the direct and indirect ecological effects of protection. Moreover, modelling results can be presented at multiple spatial and temporal scales, and relative to ecological, economic and social objectives. This helps to reveal potential ‘surprises', such as regime shifts, trophic cascades and bottlenecks in human responses. Using illustrative examples, this paper briefly covers the history of the use of simulation models for evaluating MPA options, and discusses their utility and limitations for informing protected area management in the marine realm.

Population dynamics and stock assessment of Hilsa shad, Tenualosa ilisha (Hamilton, 1822) along the coast of Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-241
Author(s):  
Md Khairul Islam ◽  
Md Humayun ◽  
Manmatha Nath Sarker ◽  
Md Sharifuddin ◽  
M Niamul Naser
Keyword(s):  
Growth Parameters ◽  
Stock Assessment ◽  
Population Analysis ◽  
Total Mortality ◽  
Maximum Sustainable Yield ◽  
Fishing Mortality ◽  
Recruitment Pattern ◽  
Weight Relationship ◽  
Tenualosa Ilisha ◽  
Highly Correlated

Stock Assessment of Tenualosa ilisha (Hamilton, 1822) were estimated using FiSAT-II software with length-frequency data collected from different landing centers. The Southeast Coast of Bay Of Bengal, Cox's Bazar. The Von Bertalanffy growth parameters Land K for the species were asymptotic length (L∞) was 51.41 cm, growth rate (K) was 0.75 year-1 and t0 = -0.2 year respectively. The estimated value of total mortality (Z) based on length converted catch curve using these growth parameters was 2.35 year-1.Natural mortality (M) based on growth parameters and mean environmental temperature (T = 27° C) was 1.00 year-1 and fishing mortality (F) was 1.35 year-1. Optimum length of hilsa at first capture (Lc=L50) was 28.36 cm TL. Growth performance indices (ϕ') was 3.30. The estimated value of the exploitation rate (E) using the length-converted catch curve was 0.57. The recruitment pattern of this species was continuous and two peaks per year. The present investigation clearly showed the over fishing (E > 0.50) condition for T. ilisha in Bangladesh. The estimated length-weight relationship for the combined sex was found to be W = 0.0109 L3. Virtual population analysis (VPA) showed that the maximum fishing mortality occurring in the length between 30 to 35 cm with a maximum value in the length of 32 cm that repeatedly indicate high fishing mortality in the T. ilisha. The generalized length-weight relationship was fitted with the pooled data of all monthly samples were BW = 0.029 TL2.718 (R2= 0.833) respectively. The results revealed that all length-weight relationships were highly correlated (r > 0.993). Maximum sustainable yield (MSY) was estimated as 435,554 t. Bangladesh J. Zool. 48(2): 231-241, 2020

scholarly journals Designing tools to evaluate fishery management strategies: can the scientific community deliver?

2007 ◽  
Vol 64 (6) ◽  
pp. 1077-1084 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon T. Schnute ◽  
Mark N. Maunder ◽  
James N. Ianelli
Keyword(s):  
Programming Languages ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Fishery Management ◽  
Stock Assessment ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Strategy Evaluation ◽  
Management Procedures ◽  
Human Skills ◽  
Testing Management

Abstract Schnute, J. T., Maunder, M. N., and Ianelli, J. N. 2007. Designing tools to evaluate fishery management strategies: can the scientific community deliver? – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 64: 1077–1084. Techniques for quantitative fishery management have evolved rapidly during a period when computers, programming languages, and computational algorithms have also changed dramatically. Despite these advances, many stock assessment methods remain untested. A process of management strategy evaluation (MSE) could potentially rectify this problem, but it would require a framework in which to conduct systematic tests. We survey the tools currently used for stock assessments and discuss the development of new standards for testing management procedures. A successful project would depend on human skills scattered among various nations, organizations, and academic disciplines. Analogies from civil engineering illustrate the discipline and collaboration required for an effective outcome. If the world community of fishery scientists could design, build, and support such a project, it would revolutionize the theory, teaching, and practice of scientific fishery management.

Impacts of outliers and mis-specification of priors on Bayesian fisheries-stock assessment

2000 ◽  
Vol 57 (11) ◽  
pp. 2293-2305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y Chen ◽  
P A Breen ◽  
N L Andrew
Keyword(s):  
Normal Distribution ◽  
Stock Assessment ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Distribution Functions ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Fish Stock ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Prior Distributions ◽  
Likelihood Functions ◽  
Robust Likelihood

Bayesian inference is increasingly used in estimating model parameters for fish-stock assessment, because of its ability to incorporate uncertainty and prior knowledge and to provide information for risk analyses in evaluating alternative management strategies. Normal distributions are commonly used in formulating likelihood functions and informative prior distributions; these are sensitive to data outliers and mis-specification of prior distributions, both common problems in fisheries-stock assessment. Using a length-structured stock-assessment model for a New Zealand abalone fishery as an example, we evaluate the robustness of three likelihood functions and two prior-distribution functions, with respect to outliers and mis-specification of priors, in 48 different combinations. The two robust likelihood estimators performed slightly less well when no data outliers were present and much better when data outliers were present. Similarly, the Cauchy distribution was less sensitive to prior mis-specification than the normal distribution. We conclude that replacing the normal distribution with "fat-tailed" distributions for likelihoods and priors can improve Bayesian assessments when there are data outliers and mis-specification of priors, with relatively minor costs when there are none.

scholarly journals Age, growth, and mortality of Loligo vulgaris wild paralarvae: implications for understanding of the life cycle and longevity

2010 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 1119-1127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ángel F. González ◽  
Jaime Otero ◽  
Graham J. Pierce ◽  
Ángel Guerra
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Total Mortality ◽  
Instantaneous Rate ◽  
Relative Growth Rates ◽  
Loligo Vulgaris ◽  
Growth Increments ◽  
Ría De Vigo ◽  
Size At Age ◽  
Almost All

Abstract González, Á. F., Otero, J., Pierce, G. J., and Guerra, Á. 2010. Age, growth, and mortality of Loligo vulgaris wild paralarvae: implications for understanding of the life cycle and longevity. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 67: 1119–1127. Age, growth, and mortality were estimated for the first time in wild paralarvae of the common squid, Loligo vulgaris, by examining growth increments in the statoliths of 273 animals collected off the Ría de Vigo (NW Spain, NE Atlantic). Hatching was all year round for the period 2003–2005, with a peak during late spring and a secondary peak during early autumn. Paralarvae varied from 1260 to 7580 µm, and their abundance decreased abruptly as they grew. Statolith increments were clearly visible without grinding in almost all material, allowing reliable estimation of age. Paralarvae are planktonic for at least 3 months. Growth in dorsal mantle length (DML) during that period fitted an exponential equation. The instantaneous relative growth rates were 2.11, 2.15, and 1.82% DML d−1 for 2003, 2004, and 2005, respectively, and there were no significant differences in size-at-age between the 3 years. Taking into account the growth rates estimated for the whole cycle of L. vulgaris, we suggest that the lifespan may previously have been underestimated by 3 months, because the proximity of the rings deposited during paralarval and early juvenile stages would prevent accuracy in enumerating the number of growth increments in later stages. The estimated instantaneous rate of total mortality during the first 90 d of a paralarva life was 9.6, 5.3, and 4.8% d−1 for 2003, 2004, and 2005, respectively. Eye diameter was a reliable and rapid way of estimating DML and age.

Persistence of mobile species in marine protected areas

2008 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Urmila Malvadkar ◽  
Alan Hastings
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Mobile Species

scholarly journals Discard mortality rates in the Bering Sea snow crab, Chionoecetes opilio, fishery

2015 ◽  
Vol 72 (5) ◽  
pp. 1525-1529 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Daniel Urban
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Bering Sea ◽  
Fishery Management ◽  
Stock Assessment ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Snow Crab ◽  
Commercial Fishing ◽  
Chionoecetes Opilio ◽  
Discard Mortality ◽  
The Bering Sea

Abstract Fish and invertebrates that are unintentionally captured during commercial fishing operations and then released back into the ocean suffer mortality at unknown rates, introducing uncertainty into the fishery management process. Attempts have been made to quantify discard mortality rates using reflex action mortality predictors or RAMP which use the presence or absence of a suite of reflexes to predict discard mortality. This method was applied to snow crab, Chionoecetes opilio, during the 2010–2012 fisheries in the Bering Sea. Discard mortality in the fishery is currently assumed to be 50% in stock assessment models, but that rate is not based on empirical data and is widely recognized to be in need of refinement. Over 19 000 crab were evaluated using the RAMP method. The estimated discard mortality rate was 4.5% (s.d. = 0.812), significantly below the rate used in stock assessment models. Predicted discard mortality rates from the 2010 to 2012 study were strongly correlated with the air temperature at the St Paul Island airport in the Pribilof Islands. Using this relationship, the discard mortality rate from 1991 to 2011 was estimated at 4.8% (s.d. = 1.08).

Estimations of Ocean Mortality Rates for Pacific Salmon (Oncorhynchus)

1962 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 561-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert R. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Sockeye Salmon ◽  
Pacific Salmon ◽  
Pink Salmon ◽  
Total Mortality ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Mortality Factor ◽  
Sampling Errors ◽  
Instantaneous Rate ◽  
Factor C

A conceptual model representing natural marine mortality rates of Pacific salmon is developed. Ocean mortality rate (q) is taken as the base to which coastal mortality rates of juveniles (c) and of adults (k) are additive factors. The effect of marking is taken as a multiplicative factor (m) of the instantaneous rate (i) where i = q + c + k. Together with time these values are incorporated into the balanced equation[Formula: see text]where N0 denotes the population entering the sea and R1, R2, R3 denote the returns at succeeding times of maturity. The locus of c + k = f(q) is used to graphically depict all possible combinations of c + k and q within the limits [q, c + k = 0]. Intersections of loci are taken as estimates of values of q and c + k which satisfy two sets of data. Available data for sockeye salmon (O. nerka) from Cultus Lake, Chilko Lake and Hooknose Creek, British Columbia, Karluk River and Bare Lake, Alaska, and Dalnee River, Kamchatka, pink salmon (O. gorbuscha) and chum salmon (O. keta) from Hooknose Creek, chinook salmon (O. tshawytscha) from the coast of Southeast Alaska and coho (O. kisutch) from the Eel River, California, are utilized. It is concluded that ocean mortality is relatively constant, of the order of magnitude q = 0. 32 or S = 73% annually. A juvenile coastal mortality factor (c) apparently exists and is characteristic of the species and race through the media of size of migrants, time spent in the costal area, and geography. An adult coastal factor (k) may exist but is of negligible influence on the total mortality rate. While the data utilized collectively may be considered as extensive, serious defects in sampling errors and undefined variability were encountered. It is doubted that mortality rates can be more accurately defined from any repetition of experiments used, hence a more direct approach is indicated for solution of this problem.

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