scholarly journals Diel variation in the catch of the shrimp Farfantepenaeus duorarum (Decapoda, Penaeidae) and length-weight relationship, in a nursery area of the Terminos Lagoon, Mexico

2016 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Brito ◽  
Rolando Gelabert ◽  
Luís Enrique Amador del Ángel ◽  
Ángel Alderete ◽  
Emma Guevara

The pink shrimp, Farfantepenaeus duorarum is an important commercial species in the Gulf of Mexico, which supports significant commercial fisheries near Dry Tortugas, in Southern Florida and in Campeche Sound, Southern Gulf of Mexico. There is information about the nictemeral behavior of the pink shrimp related to sunset, what is crucial to more accurate estimation of shrimp population biomass, and to assess the potential of this resource and its proper management. To contribute to the knowledge and the population dynamics of the species, shrimp surveys were conducted in a nursery area near “El Cayo” in the Northeastern part of Terminos Lagoon, Mexico during October 2010. Three sampling sites with substrate covered by submerged vegetation were chosen; two set of samples were collected at each site, one in the morning and the other just after sunset. Three trawls were performed per sampling site using a small otter trawl. A total of 1 418 shrimp (between 5.5 to 28.8 mm Carapace Length (CL)) were collected during the study; 1 416 F. duorarum and only two individuals of Litopenaeus setiferus. Shrimps CL and Total Length (TL) were measured in mm and individuals were weighted to the nearest 0.01 g. In general, shrimp biomass and density were significantly higher in all sites during dusk (biomass = 46.36 g.100 m-2, n = 1 344), than daylight samples (biomass = 2.78 g.100 m-2, n = 72). The One-way ANOVA and the Tukey test performed to evaluate variability in CL found significant differences between sites (CL = 14.12 mm, 12.46 mm and 15.13 mm, for site 1, 2 and 3 respectively, F = 64.92, P < 0.001) which might be related to the substrate type. The length-weight relationships reflected positive allometric growth for juveniles but isometric for subadults and two nonlinear power functions were estimated (W = 0.0004CL3.157 for juveniles, and W = 0.0009CL2.902 for subadults). The results of the analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) test indicated that the Total Length - Carapace Length (TL-CL) relationships were significantly different between juveniles and subadults, and two linear equations (TL = 2.615 + 4.476CL and TL = 8.931 + 4.062CL for juveniles and subadults respectively) were fitted. It is important that population assessment takes into account the day or night period as a bias factor when sampling the abundance of the juveniles of F. duorarum in this important nursery ground of the Campeche Sound. 

Crustaceana ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 93 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 989-997
Author(s):  
Armando T. Wakida-Kusunoki ◽  
Jose L. Cruz-Sánchez ◽  
Marco A. May-Kú ◽  
Pedro-Luis Ardisson

Abstract An abnormal bifid rostrum is reported for the first time for a wild-caught subadult female (carapace length = 22.5 mm) of the pink shrimp Farfantepenaeus duorarum (Burkenroad, 1939) from Celestun lagoon, Yucatan, southern Gulf of Mexico. A review of registers on morphological abnormalities in shrimps of the family Penaeidae is provided.


Crustaceana ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 77 (9) ◽  
pp. 1107-1116
Author(s):  
Abraham Navarrete-Del-Proo ◽  
Mauricio Ramírez-Rodríguez ◽  
Yúlica Santos-Ortega

Crustaceana ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 94 (10) ◽  
pp. 1263-1281
Author(s):  
Mario A. Gómez-Ponce ◽  
Erik Coria-Monter ◽  
Cesar Flores-Coto ◽  
Julio C. Canales-Delgadillo ◽  
José G. Cardoso-Mohedano ◽  
...  

Abstract White shrimps, Litopenaeus setiferus (Linnaeus, 1767) and pink shrimps, Farfantepenaeus duorarum (Burkenroad, 1939) are two pivotal species in the southern Gulf of Mexico, due to their ecological and economic importance. In this study we present observational evidence of the seasonal and interannual variability of both species in the Términos Lagoon (southern Gulf of Mexico). The results suggest that the hydrography of the water column and the surface circulation exert a strong influence on the density of both species. The results presented here contribute to a better understanding of the dynamics of both species and highlight the need to combine different methodologies to achieve a better interpretation of this system.


2003 ◽  
Vol 65 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 81-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauricio Ramı́rez-Rodrı́guez ◽  
Francisco Arreguı́n-Sánchez ◽  
Daniel Lluch-Belda

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura E. Timm ◽  
Thomas L. Jackson ◽  
Joan A. Browder ◽  
Heather D. Bracken-Grissom

The Gulf of Mexico pink shrimp, Farfantepenaeus duorarum, supports large fisheries in the United States and Mexico, with nearly 7,000 tons harvested from the region in 2016. Given the commercial importance of this species, management is critical: in 1997, the southern Gulf of Mexico pink shrimp fishery was declared collapsed and mitigation strategies went into effect, with recovery efforts lasting over a decade. Fisheries management can be informed and improved through a better understanding of how factors associated with early life history impact genetic diversity and population structure in the recruited population. Farfantepenaeus duorarum are short-lived, but highly fecund, and display high variability in recruitment patterns. To date, modeling the impacts of ecological, physical, and behavioral factors on juvenile settlement has focused on recruitment of larval individuals of F. duorarum to nursery grounds in Florida Bay. Here, we articulate testable hypotheses stemming from a recent model of larval transport and evaluate support for each with a population genomics approach, generating reduced representation library sequencing data for F. duorarum collected from seven regions around the Florida Peninsula. Our research represents the first and most molecular data-rich study of population structure in F. duorarum in the Gulf and reveals evidence of a differentiated population in the Dry Tortugas. Our approach largely validates a model of larval transport, allowing us to make management-informative inferences about the impacts of spawning location and recruitment patterns on intraspecific genetic diversity. Such inferences improve our understanding of the roles of non-genetic factors in generating and maintaining genetic diversity in a commercially important penaeid shrimp species.


2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis Bonilla-Gómez ◽  
Gérard Cuzon ◽  
Gilberto Jeronimo ◽  
Xavier Chiappa-Carrara ◽  
Gabriela Gaxiola ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Eunice H. Pinn ◽  
R. James A. Atkinson ◽  
Andrew Rogerson

Evidence of sexual dimorphism in the mud-shrimp Upogebia stellata was observed in the abdomen length, total length, and also in the chelae. For the same carapace length, males had a shorter abdomen and, therefore, total length, whilst their chelae were larger and more robust than the females. Of the 91 U. stellata individuals examined, a single specimen was found to be of an intersex type, i.e. it exhibited both male and female external characteristics. Sexual dimorphism and intersexuality are discussed.


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