{"title":"Modern technologies and integrated observing systems are “instrumental” to fisheries oceanography: A brief history of ocean data collection","authors":"Franklin B. Schwing","doi":"10.1111/fog.12619","DOIUrl":"10.1111/fog.12619","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Interdisciplinary data fuel fisheries oceanography research and the ecosystem-based approaches to management and sustainable development it informs. Underlying this is a distributed ocean observing framework that is integrated, interoperable, interactive, and accessible. In recognition of the 30th anniversary of <i>Fisheries Oceanography</i> the journal, this paper reviews the evolution of observing instruments and platforms used in contemporary fisheries oceanography the science. Illustrated with personal anecdotes, past efforts to create or adopt observing technologies, and examples of their use in research, this highlights the spectrum of instruments, systems, and programs used to survey and monitor ocean ecosystems. Modern ocean observing systems are complex and varied, reflecting the range and diversity of data required by fisheries oceanographers. These systems require a large and ongoing investment and an interdisciplinary community of scientists, engineers, and technicians to design, build, install, operate, and maintain them. Common themes emerge from a review of past successful instrument R&D and deployments. It is a highly collaborative, integrative, and iterative process. Most systems are the result of vision, planning, and perseverance, backed by careful calibration and intercomparison. Long-term support is essential; public–private partnerships that leverage funding, technology, and infrastructure are critical. Sustaining long time series for monitoring population and ecosystem change and to support fisheries oceanography research is a priority. Future areas of focus include continuously innovating and updating technologies, implementing a backbone of core observations, and maintaining a nimble infrastructure and R&D capacity to seize new opportunities and address emerging challenges.</p>","PeriodicalId":51054,"journal":{"name":"Fisheries Oceanography","volume":"32 1","pages":"28-69"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/fog.12619","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43512939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revisiting the role of early life growth for survival potential in three clupeoid species","authors":"Shota Tanaka, Shizuna Togoshi, Naotaka Yasue, Corinne M. Burns, Dominique Robert, Akinori Takasuka","doi":"10.1111/fog.12626","DOIUrl":"10.1111/fog.12626","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Johan Hjort's “critical period” hypothesis, which postulates that year-class strength is determined in the short period following the onset of exogenous feeding, has rarely been supported by empirical data. Instead, the current understanding is that recruitment is determined by cumulative mortality throughout early life. Recent studies relied on the measure of growth autocorrelation derived from otolith daily increment widths to test the link between growth rate achieved during the post-hatch period and during subsequent phases of the larval stage. Based on this approach, we revisit the role of larval growth in driving survival potential in three clupeoid species: Japanese sardine <i>Sardinops melanostictus</i>, Japanese anchovy <i>Engraulis japonicus</i>, and Pacific round herring <i>Etrumeus micropus</i> throughout the larval stage, using a combination of published datasets of otolith increment widths. Strong growth autocorrelation was detected for all three species throughout the larval stage, suggesting that initial growth determines to some extent growth rates achieved later in life. The extent of autocorrelation was reduced in sardine relative to anchovy and round herring at older ages. This interspecific difference could be attributed to differences in sensitivity to variability of environmental factors such as water temperature and food availability. The present findings suggest that the effect of early growth rate persists into later life stages for driving survival potential, which could reconcile the classic concept of “critical period” and the current “growth–survival” paradigm.</p>","PeriodicalId":51054,"journal":{"name":"Fisheries Oceanography","volume":"32 2","pages":"245-254"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45816459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Charles Hinchliffe, Paloma A. Matis, Hayden T. Schilling, Jason D. Everett, Anthony G. Miskiewicz, Pierre Pepin, Daniel S. Falster, Iain M. Suthers
{"title":"Plankton size spectra as an indicator of larval success in Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax)","authors":"Charles Hinchliffe, Paloma A. Matis, Hayden T. Schilling, Jason D. Everett, Anthony G. Miskiewicz, Pierre Pepin, Daniel S. Falster, Iain M. Suthers","doi":"10.1111/fog.12620","DOIUrl":"10.1111/fog.12620","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Estimating demographic changes in a population requires the measurement of some minimal combination of several vital rates, including the flux of individuals into a population, the population growth rate, individual growth rates and mortality rates. For larval fishes, the ratio of instantaneous mortality to growth (i.e., their ‘recruitment potential’) has been used to make inferences of cohort trajectory where measures of population growth rates are not attainable. Attaining estimates of mortality and growth is an arduous task, and use of the recruitment potential metric has been limited. Here, we relate size spectra of the broader plankton community to the recruitment potential of simultaneously sampled larval Pacific sardines (<i>Sardinops sagax</i>), from three voyages off eastern Australia. As the size structure of a population is determined by the ratio of mortality to growth, and there is remarkable consistency in size spectra across ecosystems, we test the hypothesis that the recruitment potential of larval fish is reflected in community-level measures of plankton size spectra. Contrary to expectations, results from this study demonstrate a negative relationship between the slope of the plankton size spectra and the recruitment potential of larval Pacific sardine. However, we also demonstrate several other stronger relationships between recruitment potential and physical oceanographic parameters. Together, results suggest plankton size spectra are unlikely to reflect recruitment potential directly. Incorporating some size-based aspects of the plankton community into a broader modelling framework with a range of oceanographic parameters could further our ability to determine how larval success varies across a seascape.</p>","PeriodicalId":51054,"journal":{"name":"Fisheries Oceanography","volume":"32 2","pages":"196-212"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/fog.12620","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47881633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Steven J. Bograd, Martin Edwards, Shin-ichi Ito, Janet Nye, Emily Chappell
{"title":"Fisheries Oceanography: The first 30 years and new challenges in the 21st century","authors":"Steven J. Bograd, Martin Edwards, Shin-ichi Ito, Janet Nye, Emily Chappell","doi":"10.1111/fog.12623","DOIUrl":"10.1111/fog.12623","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The journal <i>Fisheries Oceanography</i> provides a global forum for fisheries scientists and oceanographers to understand how marine ecosystems, and the services they provide to society, are structured and shaped by environmental variability and climate change. With this special issue, as well as the 30th Anniversary Virtual Issue of the most influential papers from the journal's history, we commemorate 30 years of publishing leading research in the field of fisheries oceanography. These issues showcase the extent, depth and impact of the research published in <i>Fisheries Oceanography</i>. We also reflect on the evolution of research themes through the journal's history, and highlight key emergent themes in our field. We look forward to continuing to publish impactful research in the pages of <i>Fisheries Oceanography</i> in the years ahead.</p>","PeriodicalId":51054,"journal":{"name":"Fisheries Oceanography","volume":"32 1","pages":"3-9"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/fog.12623","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42691025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jacob Burbank, Rachel A. DeJong, François Turcotte, Nicolas Rolland
{"title":"Understanding factors influencing Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) recruitment: From egg deposition to juveniles","authors":"Jacob Burbank, Rachel A. DeJong, François Turcotte, Nicolas Rolland","doi":"10.1111/fog.12621","DOIUrl":"10.1111/fog.12621","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recruitment is a critical component of population dynamics and variability in recruitment underpins large fluctuations in population abundances of commercially valuable marine fishes. Marine pelagic fishes such as Atlantic herring (<i>Clupea harengus</i>) experience relatively high variability in recruitment that is driven by a wide range of biotic and abiotic factors. The relative importance and interaction of each factor for determining recruitment is poorly understood, and consequently, recruitment estimates are one of the largest uncertainties in fisheries management and predictions of future population sizes. Poor recruitment of Atlantic herring has been identified as a major issue and bottleneck for the species; therefore, factors influencing successful recruitment are of great interest to fisheries managers. Here we review studies that have examined the factors influencing survival at the egg stage, early larval stage, late larval stage, and juvenile stage to develop a more comprehensive understanding of the recruitment of Atlantic herring and provide recommendations to guide future research. We identified nine biotic and eight abiotic factors that have been found to substantially impact the recruitment of Atlantic herring, with temperature, prey availability, and predation being the most commonly investigated factors. We conclude it is not one factor that primarily determines recruitment, but rather a collection of many factors that vary temporally and spatially that drive the large variation observed in Atlantic herring recruitment year over year. A holistic approach is required to better understand recruitment and improve fisheries management decisions regarding Atlantic herring.</p>","PeriodicalId":51054,"journal":{"name":"Fisheries Oceanography","volume":"32 2","pages":"147-159"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/fog.12621","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42618696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marcelo Francisco Nóbrega, Marcelo Gomes de Lira, Matheus Assis Oliveira, Jorge Eduardo Lins Oliveira
{"title":"Interactions between oceanographic variables and population structure of the yellowfin tuna Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788) in the Western Central Atlantic","authors":"Marcelo Francisco Nóbrega, Marcelo Gomes de Lira, Matheus Assis Oliveira, Jorge Eduardo Lins Oliveira","doi":"10.1111/fog.12624","DOIUrl":"10.1111/fog.12624","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Pelagic fish species, such as tunas, represent important resources for the fishing fleets of several countries. Identifying spatiotemporal distributions of abundance, structure of sizes, weights and influences of environmental variables is extremely important to promote sustainable catches and efficient management plans for fisheries stocks. This present study aimed to analyse the spatiotemporal distribution of <i>Thunnus albacares</i>, their relationships with oceanographic variables, as well as size and weight structure, and the proportions of life stages/phases in catches, mainly within the Brazilian Exclusive Economic Zone. Data were obtained on longline fleet catches; the sea surface temperature (SST) and chlorophyll-a (Chla) were measured in an area ranging from 42.2° to 24.8° W and 5.9° S to 8.8° N; the lunar cycle was also studied. Generalised Additive Models and spatial statistics techniques were used to model the effect of the variables on catch per unit effort (CPUE) and on length structure. The results indicate that the distribution, abundance and length structure of <i>T. albacares</i> are strongly associated with environmental (SST and Chla), temporal (year, months, seasons and moon phases) and spatial (latitude, longitude and hemisphere) variables. The comparison of catch sizes with the first length at maturity (L<sub>50</sub>) indicated that approximately half of the catches are on young specimens, showing great variation over the years, reaching 74.8% in 2012. These results show that providences should be taken focusing on mitigating young specimens' capture and the sustainable exploitation of tuna in the Atlantic. The patterns of CPUE and length strongly support the feeding and spawning migration hypotheses.</p>","PeriodicalId":51054,"journal":{"name":"Fisheries Oceanography","volume":"32 2","pages":"213-228"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46076021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of interannual variations of Kuroshio–Tsushima Warm Current system on the transportation of juvenile Japanese jack mackerel (Trachurus japonicus) to the Pacific coast of Japan","authors":"Yosuke Igeta, Chiyuki Sassa, Motomitsu Takahashi, Mizuki Kuga, Satoshi Kitajima, Taku Wagawa, Shoko Abe, Chikako Watanabe, Takashi Setou, Hirohiko Nakamura, Naoki Hirose","doi":"10.1111/fog.12622","DOIUrl":"10.1111/fog.12622","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recruitment of Japanese jack mackerel (<i>Trachurus japonicus</i>) has been decreasing continuously since 2000 in the Pacific coastal waters of Japan. The reasons and mechanisms for this phenomenon are still unclear. Particle-tracking experiments were performed using a data assimilation model to elucidate the effect of a current system on the transportation processes of <i>T. japonicus</i> from the main spawning ground in the southern East China Sea to the Pacific coastal waters. The experiments demonstrated that <i>T. japonicus</i> were transported from the southern East China Sea to the Pacific waters around western Japan through the Tokara Strait, and the number of particles transported to the Pacific decreased from 2000 to 2017. The particles passing through the northwest Tokara Strait tended to be transported to the Pacific side during 2000–2005 and to the Sea of Japan during 2006–2017. The bifurcation toward the Sea of Japan was due to an amplification of the northward current where the Tsushima Warm Current originates (west of Kyushu). This change was induced by a rising sea level west of Kyushu due to Kuroshio's northward shift along the western Pacific coast of Japan, which induced the Tsushima Strait through flow to strengthen. The decrease in larval transportation due to the current system change can be one of the causes for the recruitment decline of <i>T. japonicus</i> along the Pacific coast.</p>","PeriodicalId":51054,"journal":{"name":"Fisheries Oceanography","volume":"32 1","pages":"133-146"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48750744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adam Spear, Alexander G. Andrews III, Janet Duffy-Anderson, Tayler Jarvis, David Kimmel, Denise McKelvey
{"title":"Changes in the vertical distribution of age-0 walleye pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus) during warm and cold years in the southeastern Bering Sea","authors":"Adam Spear, Alexander G. Andrews III, Janet Duffy-Anderson, Tayler Jarvis, David Kimmel, Denise McKelvey","doi":"10.1111/fog.12618","DOIUrl":"10.1111/fog.12618","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the last 20 years, the southeastern Bering Sea has shifted its thermal variability to longer-term (4–6 years) ocean–ecosystem temperature stanzas. Age-0 walleye pollock (<i>Gadus chalcogrammus</i>) populations respond to thermal changes with horizontal (east–west) shifts in spatial distribution over the continental shelf, though there are limited data on whether thermally mediated vertical shifts in distribution also occur. Vertical shifts may impact predator–prey overlap between age-0 pollock and their lipid-rich prey, calanoid copepods and euphausiids, resulting in different feeding conditions that ultimately affect fish body condition prior to winter onset. For this study, we analyzed acoustic backscatter measured during acoustic trawl surveys over the southeastern Bering Sea shelf in cold years (2011, 2012) and warm years (2014 and 2016) to determine the vertical distribution of age-0 pollock. This study presents evidence that age-0 pollock changes in vertical distribution were related to changes in ocean annual temperature. Age-0 pollock went from occurring deeper in the water column during cold periods to being surface-oriented during warm periods, potentially exacerbating spatial mismatches between pollock and prey. We relate patterns in a vertical position to physical water column properties, feeding, and bioenergetic condition of collected pollock and discuss implications for recruitment success during different thermal oceanographic stanzas.</p>","PeriodicalId":51054,"journal":{"name":"Fisheries Oceanography","volume":"32 2","pages":"177-195"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45051754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Madeline A. K. Lavery, Christopher N. Rooper, Kota Sawada, Kari Fenske, Vladimir Kulik, Kyum Joon Park
{"title":"Effects of oceanography on North Pacific armorhead recruitment in the Emperor Seamounts","authors":"Madeline A. K. Lavery, Christopher N. Rooper, Kota Sawada, Kari Fenske, Vladimir Kulik, Kyum Joon Park","doi":"10.1111/fog.12612","DOIUrl":"10.1111/fog.12612","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The North Pacific armorhead (NPA), <i>Pentaceros wheeleri</i>, is thought to exhibit an extended post-spawning epipelagic phase in which larvae disperse to the northeast Pacific Ocean. Current understanding of juvenile distribution, development, and mechanisms that drive recruitment variation, however, remains largely incomplete. The objective of this study was to compare a time series of NPA recruitment to established climate indices and to environmental covariates to explore drivers of the NPA life cycle. Additionally, this work investigates potential larval NPA transport pathways and their positional relationships to the proposed northeastern nursery grounds. Using Lagrangian particle tracking, trajectories of passive larvae were simulated at depths of 0 and 15 m for 18 years (2001–2018) from the Southern Emperor-Northern Hawaiian Ridge (SE-NHR) natal habitat. Dispersal distances and particle end positions were examined for their potential relationships with recruitment. Sea surface temperature and net primary productivity were evaluated as predictor variables using generalized additive modeling. Neither regression of particle end-point characteristics nor environmental covariates resulted in significant correlations with recruitment here, perhaps owing to data limitations surrounding the nursery zone. Particles were found to be advected largely within the North Pacific transition zone in the central north Pacific. Significant seasonal correlations were found between recruitment and the Arctic Oscillation, Pacific Decadal Oscillation and North Pacific Gyre Oscillation, suggesting that NPA recruitment mechanisms respond to interannual ocean-atmospheric climate oscillations. Better knowledge of the connections between recruitment and the environment would be valuable for stock management, and improvements for advection predictions are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":51054,"journal":{"name":"Fisheries Oceanography","volume":"32 2","pages":"160-176"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/fog.12612","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41448333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}