The potential of the spiny lobster fishery in Aceh waters: A short review

Abstract The western-southern and northern coastal waters of Aceh are the potential fishing areas of spiny lobster, which faces the Indian Ocean and the Andaman Sea. Fishing gears that are widely used are lobster gill nets and hand-picking with compressors. In Indonesia, seven species of spiny lobsters are caught in these waters, including Panulirus homarus, P. penicillatus, P. versicolor, P. ornatus, P. polyphagus, P. longipes longipes, and P. longipes femoristiga. The habitat for spiny lobsters is spread from coral reefs, rock, sand, and muddy sand. Panulirus homarus is the most frequently caught species in these waters, followed by P. penicillatus and P. longipes. Panulirus homarus is mainly caught during the dry season (southwest wind) and high waves (May to July), where other lobster species experience a significant decrease in the catch. The stock of spiny lobster in Fisheries Management Area (FMA) 572 (including Aceh coastal waters) has been in an overfishing condition since 2008. Maximum sustainable yield (MSY) of spiny lobster in Aceh coastal waters part of Malacca Strait (FMA 571) is 188.60 tons.yr−1 with a total allowable catch (TAC) of 151.10 tons. yr−1. Furthermore, the MSY for Aceh coastal waters part of Indian Ocean is 292.09 tons.yr−1 with a TAC of 233.92 tons.yr−1. Spiny lobster fishing in Aceh coastal waters must ensure its use in the future, both ecologically, socially, and economically.

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Understanding Barriers in Indian Ocean Tuna Commission Allocation Negotiations on Fishing Opportunities

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12166665 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (16) ◽

pp. 6665

Author(s):

Hussain Sinan ◽

Megan Bailey

Keyword(s):

Indian Ocean ◽

Legal Framework ◽

Willingness To Accept ◽

Total Allowable Catch ◽

New Members ◽

Fish Stocks ◽

Allocation Process ◽

The Indian Ocean ◽

Equitable Allocation ◽

Regional Fisheries Management Organizations

Tuna Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs) have been given an arduous mandate under the legal framework of the United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement. Member states with different interests and objectives are required to cooperate and collaborate on the conservation and management of tuna and tuna-like species, which includes the allocation of fishing opportunities. It is well understood that the main RFMO allocation disagreements are the inability to agree on a total allowable catch, the lack of willingness to accept new members, disagreement on who should bear the conservation burden, and non-compliance with national allocations owning to perceived inequities. Addressing these elements is crucial for any organization if it is to sustain its credibility stability and legitimacy. This paper identifies additional barriers facing an equitable allocation process at the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC). These challenges are multi-faceted and include institutional, political, and scientific barriers in the ongoing allocation negotiations, and further inhibit effective negotiation and resolution adoption as a whole. After almost 10 years of negotiations, the process has progressed little, and without agreement on these barriers it will be a challenge to adopt a stable systematic allocation process.

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Palinustus mossambicus Barnard, 1926 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Achelata: Palinuridae); morphology of the puerulus stage

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.1857.1.4 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 1857 (1) ◽

pp. 44 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

FERRAN PALERO ◽

GUILLERMO GUERAO ◽

PAUL F. CLARK

Keyword(s):

Indian Ocean ◽

Spiny Lobster ◽

Western Indian Ocean ◽

Morphological Characters ◽

Spiny Lobsters

Two adults of the rare buffalo blunthorn spiny lobster, Palinustus mossambicus Barnard, 1926 and a puerulus specimen were found while curating material from the first R/V “Dr. Fridtjof Nansen” expedition to the Western Indian Ocean. Furthermore, another puerulus-stage specimen of this spiny lobster species was found caught near Zanzibar, Tanzania. The morphological characters of the puerulus specimens indicated that they belonged to P. mossambicus, although the puerulus stage is somewhat dorsoventrally flattened, and has proportionally large pleopods. This constitutes the first puerulus description for the spiny lobsters of the genus Palinustus.

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First record of Hyalascus (Hexactinellida: Rossellidae) from the Indian Ocean, with description of a new species from a volcanic seamount in the Andaman Sea

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.2667.1.5 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 2667 (1) ◽

pp. 64 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

SABYASACHI SAUTYA ◽

KONSTANTIN R. TABACHNICK ◽

BABAN INGOLE

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Pacific Ocean ◽

Indian Ocean ◽

First Record ◽

Andaman Sea ◽

The Pacific ◽

The Indian Ocean ◽

The Pacific Ocean ◽

Back Arc ◽

A New Species

A new species of Hyalascus is described from the submarine volcanic crater seamount of Andaman Back-arc Basin, Indian Ocean. The genus was previously known in the Pacific Ocean only.

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THE INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI 2004: IDENTIFICATION OF TSUNAMI DEPOSITS OFFSHORE IN THE ANDAMAN SEA BY DIFFERENT PROXIES

The Proceedings of the Coastal Sediments 2015 ◽

10.1142/9789814689977_0184 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

KLAUS SCHWARZER ◽

PETER FELDENS ◽

DAROONWAN SAKUNA-SCHWARTZ ◽

SIWATT PONGPIACHAN ◽

YVONNE MILKER ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Indian Ocean ◽

Andaman Sea ◽

Indian Ocean Tsunami ◽

Tsunami Deposits ◽

The Indian Ocean ◽

Tsunami 2004

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Composition of bacterial communities in deep-sea sediments from the South China Sea, the Andaman Sea and the Indian Ocean

African Journal of Microbiology Research ◽

10.5897/ajmr11.302 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 5 (29) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Houbo Wu

Keyword(s):

Indian Ocean ◽

South China Sea ◽

South China ◽

Deep Sea ◽

Bacterial Communities ◽

The South China Sea ◽

Andaman Sea ◽

China Sea ◽

Deep Sea Sediments ◽

The Indian Ocean

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Deoxygenation in Marginal Seas of the Indian Ocean

Frontiers in Marine Science ◽

10.3389/fmars.2021.624322 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 ◽

Author(s):

S. Wajih A. Naqvi

Keyword(s):

Indian Ocean ◽

Oxygen Content ◽

Red Sea ◽

Bay Of Bengal ◽

Persian Gulf ◽

Oxygen Demand ◽

Andaman Sea ◽

Marginal Seas ◽

The Indian Ocean ◽

Oxygen Minimum

This article describes oxygen distributions and recent deoxygenation trends in three marginal seas – Persian Gulf and Red Sea in the Northwestern Indian Ocean (NWIO) and Andaman Sea in the Northeastern Indian Ocean (NEIO). Vertically mixed water column in the shallow Persian Gulf is generally well-oxygenated, especially in winter. Biogeochemistry and ecosystems of Persian Gulf are being subjected to enormous anthropogenic stresses including large loading of nutrients and organic matter, enhancing oxygen demand and causing hypoxia (oxygen < 1.4 ml l–1) in central and southern Gulf in summer. The larger and deeper Red Sea is relatively less affected by human activities. Despite its deep water having remarkably uniform thermohaline characteristics, the central and southern Red Sea has a well-developed perennial oxygen minimum at mid-depths. The available data point to ongoing deoxygenation in the northern Red Sea. Model simulations show that an amplified warming in the marginal seas of the NWIO may cause an intensification of the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone (OMZ). Increases in particulate organic carbon and decreases in oxygen contents of the outflows may also have a similar effect. In the Andaman Sea, waters above the sill depth (∼1.4 km) have characteristics similar to those in the Bay of Bengal, including an intense OMZ. As in the case of the Bay of Bengal, oxygen concentrations within the Andaman Sea OMZ appear to have declined slightly but significantly between early 1960s and 1995. The exceedingly isothermal and isohaline water that fills the deep Andaman Basin is also remarkably homogenous in terms of its oxygen content. A very slight but statistically significant decrease in oxygen content of this water also seems to have occurred over three decades preceding 1995. New information is badly needed to assess the extent of further change that may have occurred over the past 25 years. There have been some reports of coastal “dead zones” having developed in the Indian Ocean marginal seas, but they are probably under-reported and the effects of hypoxia on the rich and diverse tropical ecosystems – coral reefs, seagrasses, and mangroves – in these seas remain to be investigated.

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Review of the Indian Ocean spikefish genus Mephisto (Tetraodontiformes: Triacanthodidae)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.5 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4802 (1) ◽

pp. 82-98

Author(s):

KATHERINE E. BEMIS ◽

JAMES C. TYLER ◽

PETER N. PSOMADAKIS ◽

LAUREN NEWELL FERRIS ◽

APPUKUTTANNAIR BIJU KUMAR

Keyword(s):

Indian Ocean ◽

Bay Of Bengal ◽

East Coast ◽

Andaman Sea ◽

Micro Ct ◽

Tooth Replacement ◽

Color Photograph ◽

Replacement Pattern ◽

The Indian Ocean ◽

Ct Data

We redescribe the triacanthodid spikefish Mephisto fraserbrunneri Tyler 1966 based upon eight specimens (five newly reported herein) and the first color photographs of freshly collected specimens; these data are compared with that of the single specimen of the recently described M. albomaculosus Matsuura, Psomadakis, and Mya Than Tun 2018. Both species are found in the Indian Ocean, with M. fraserbrunneri known from the Arabian Sea off the east coast of Africa to the eastern Bay of Bengal, and M. albomaculosus confirmed only from the type locality in the Andaman Sea (a color photograph of an individual M. cf. albomaculosus from the Bay of Bengal that was not retained is also presented). We describe and diagnose the genus Mephisto and provide a key to the two species based upon all available specimens. We also provide a distribution map for both species and summarize literature records. Using micro-CT data, we show that Mephisto fraserbrunneri replaces teeth intraosseously, which suggests this tooth replacement pattern is plesiomorphic for Tetraodontiformes.

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High-Resolution Operational Ocean Forecast and Reanalysis System for the Indian Ocean

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ◽

10.1175/bams-d-19-0083.1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 101 (8) ◽

pp. E1340-E1356 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

P. A. Francis ◽

A. K. Jithin ◽

J. B. Effy ◽

A. Chatterjee ◽

K. Chakraborty ◽

...

Keyword(s):

High Resolution ◽

Indian Ocean ◽

Data Assimilation ◽

Coastal Waters ◽

General Circulation ◽

High Performance ◽

Coast Guard ◽

Ocean Modeling ◽

Regional Ocean Modeling System ◽

The Indian Ocean

Abstract A good understanding of the general circulation features of the oceans, particularly of the coastal waters, and ability to predict the key oceanographic parameters with good accuracy and sufficient lead time are necessary for the safe conduct of maritime activities such as fishing, shipping, and offshore industries. Considering these requirements and buoyed by the advancements in the field of ocean modeling, data assimilation, and ocean observation networks along with the availability of the high-performance computational facility in India, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services has set up a “High-Resolution Operational Ocean Forecast and Reanalysis System” (HOOFS) with an aim to provide accurate ocean analysis and forecasts for the public, researchers, and other types of users like navigators and the Indian Coast Guard. Major components of HOOFS are (i) a suite of numerical ocean models configured for the Indian Ocean and the coastal waters using the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) for forecasting physical and biogeochemical state of the ocean and (ii) the data assimilation based on local ensemble transform Kalman filter that assimilates in situ and satellite observations in ROMS. Apart from the routine forecasts of key oceanographic parameters, a few important applications such as (i) Potential Fishing Zone forecasting system and (ii) Search and Rescue Aid Tool are also developed as part of the HOOFS project. The architecture of HOOFS, an account of the quality of ocean analysis and forecasts produced by it and important applications developed based on HOOFS are briefly discussed in this article.

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