P. G. von Szalay, E. Laman, S. Kotwicki, Lewis A. K. Barnett, Kotaro Ono
{"title":"Quantifying the effects of sample size and species distribution on the precision and accuracy of abundance estimates from bottom-trawl surveys in the Gulf of Alaska","authors":"P. G. von Szalay, E. Laman, S. Kotwicki, Lewis A. K. Barnett, Kotaro Ono","doi":"10.7755/fb.122.4.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7755/fb.122.4.2","url":null,"abstract":"— We assessed the effect of survey effort reduction on the accuracy and precision of estimates of abundance for 4 commercially or ecologically important species with differing distributions observed in a bottom-trawl survey conducted in the Gulf of Alaska. Simulations from a spatiotemporal generalized linear mixed model based on historical observations of catch densities were used to evaluate the statistical robustness, measured in terms of coefficient of variation, relative bias, and relative root mean square error, of the abundance estimates and their variances. These metrics were used to compare estimates between the traditional design-based estimator and the alternative estimator, based on a vector autoregressive spatiotemporal model, at 4 different sampling densities, representing 2 historical and 2 theoretical sampling effort levels on either side of the historical range. The recent reduction in the density of survey sampling from 820 to 550 stations had only a modest effect on the performance metrics for both estimators for arrowtooth","PeriodicalId":507250,"journal":{"name":"Fishery Bulletin","volume":"13 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141925109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantifying the effects of sample size and species distribution on the precision and accuracy of abundance estimates from bottom-trawl surveys in the Gulf of Alaska: Supplemental Table","authors":"P. G. von Szalay","doi":"10.7755/fb.122.4.2s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7755/fb.122.4.2s","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":507250,"journal":{"name":"Fishery Bulletin","volume":"37 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141922846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. Lemos, Ana C. G. Mai, Ana C. Martins, José V. Martins, Sandra Andrade, Henrique Cabral, João P. Vieira
{"title":"Variation in otolith microchemistry for Lebranche mullet (Mugil liza) in southern Brazil and its potential use in identifying their nursery grounds","authors":"V. Lemos, Ana C. G. Mai, Ana C. Martins, José V. Martins, Sandra Andrade, Henrique Cabral, João P. Vieira","doi":"10.7755/fb.122.1-2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7755/fb.122.1-2.2","url":null,"abstract":"— The Lebranche mullet ( Mugil liza ) is an economically important estuarine species found along the coast of Brazil. The southern population of this species ranges from the coast of the state of São Paulo (23°S) to the coast of Argentina (36°S). It migrates annually among estuaries in Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Brazil to reproduce in their marine spawning grounds (~26°S). We evaluated whether variations in the otolith chemical composition for fish acquired at nursery grounds can be used to make distinctions among 4 nursery areas of the southern population. Analysis of otolith microchemistry included concentrations of 9 elements: lithium (Li), magnesium (Mg), copper, zinc, strontium (Sr), cadmium, barium, lanthanum, and lead. When using random forest classification algorithms, the maximum accuracy of 96% in assignment of nursery habitat for Lebranche mullet between 2 groups (fish caught at nurseries in Brazil and fish migrating from waters of Uruguay and Argentina) was achieved with the combination of Li, Mg, and Sr. Our results indicate that the elemental composition of otoliths can be an important tool for establishing connectivity between nursery areas used by Lebranche mullet. We discuss the implications of this result for the structure of the population and the management of the mullet fishery in southern Brazil relative to the limitations of the meth-ods we employed.","PeriodicalId":507250,"journal":{"name":"Fishery Bulletin","volume":"24 39","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140226181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jeff Kneebone, Connor F. White, Caroline Collatos, N. Whitney
{"title":"High survivorship of sandbar sharks (Carcharhinus plumbeus) following catch and release in a growing land-based fishery in Massachusetts","authors":"Jeff Kneebone, Connor F. White, Caroline Collatos, N. Whitney","doi":"10.7755/fb.122.1-2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7755/fb.122.1-2.1","url":null,"abstract":"— Directed land-based recreational catch- and-release fishing for sandbar sharks ( Carcharhinus plumbeus ) is growing in popularity in Massachusetts. Working with 21 volunteer fishermen of varying experience levels, we observed and documented the fishing gear, tackle, and techniques used to catch and release 67 sand-bar sharks. The postrelease fate of each shark was monitored by using an acceleration data logger (ADL) tag embedded in a custom float package that was secured to the first dorsal fin with a galvanic timed release. All 67 packages were recovered after detachment following monitoring periods of 0.15–9.98 d. Examination of the depth, tailbeat period (TBP), pitch, and roll time series from 65 ADLs that recorded data revealed high survivorship for tagged sharks, with all of them alive at the time of tag detachment. Behavioral recovery was estimated to have occurred at an average of 6.36 h after release on the basis of trends in TBP for 54 sandbar sharks with at least 10 h of postrelease acceleration data. These results indicate that sandbar sharks are remarkably resilient to catch and release in the land-based shark fishery in","PeriodicalId":507250,"journal":{"name":"Fishery Bulletin","volume":"22 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140264810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}