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{"title":"Minimally Invasive Collection of Biometric Data Including Maturation Stage on European Eel Using Photography","authors":"Leander Höhne,&nbsp;Jan-Dag Pohlmann,&nbsp;Marko Freese","doi":"10.1002/mcf2.10239","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mcf2.10239","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In response to the severe decline of the European Eel <i>Anguilla anguilla</i> stock in recent decades, various data frameworks and research efforts toward improved management rely on the availability of site-specific biometric data. At the same time, scientists are obligated to minimize the negative effects (stress, harm, and sacrifice) of their samplings on individuals and the population without compromising data quality. In-field methods for biometric measurements must be quick, precise, and practical for the user. Essential information that is typically required in (large-scale) eel monitoring programs includes body length, mass, sex, and maturation stage. As live eels are difficult to handle, individuals are typically anesthetized or killed (and sometimes stored frozen to postpone measurements) to obtain the necessary biometrics. The primary purpose of this paper was to explore the suitability of a nonlethal method based on photography for obtaining essential biometrics and maturation stage from live European Eels <i>A. anguilla</i> in a timely manner. In addition, we evaluated the relative accuracy of measuring the parameters that are necessary for assessing maturation stages in eels after defrosting and examined the necessity of correcting for potential shrinkage of eyes and pectoral fin. Both procedures were compared against a standard reference of measurements from freshly killed eels. We found that the minimally invasive method using alive measurements of eels' body length and mass together with digital measurements of eyes and pectoral fin from photographs had the highest agreement for maturation stage outcome with the fresh reference. Our results further reveal the necessity of correcting for shrinkage of eyes and pectoral fins (in addition to length and mass) after freezing to maximize reliability in stage classification. Consequently, we provide specialized formulae to apply shrinkage corrections for eye diameter and pectoral fin length.</p>","PeriodicalId":51257,"journal":{"name":"Marine and Coastal Fisheries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mcf2.10239","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43131548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Postrelease Mortality of Angled Tarpon in Puerto Rico","authors":"Laura B. Horowitz,&nbsp;Peter J. Allen,&nbsp;J. Wesley Neal,&nbsp;Sandra B. Correa","doi":"10.1002/mcf2.10238","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mcf2.10238","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Tarpon <i>Megalops atlanticus</i> is a popular and economically important inshore sport fish in Puerto Rico, and the pursuit of this species by local anglers and tourists contributes to the economy. This species is managed as a no-take fishery, which aims to preserve populations by catching and releasing fish that would otherwise be subjected to harvest and removal from the population. The approach assumes minimal mortality and/or reduced fitness of released fish, yet the process of angling can produce many sublethal side effects or direct mortality. In this study, charter angling for Tarpon in the San Juan lagoon system in Puerto Rico was examined to determine postrelease mortality. Angled fish were externally tagged with acoustic transmitters and relocated periodically to determine the fate after release. Postrelease mortality was at least 4.5% (two fish observed dead) and at most 18.2% (observed dead plus classified dead based on lack of movement; confidence interval [CI] = 7.5–28.9%). Some tag loss was observed, which could have artificially elevated classified mortality estimates. Potential factors that contribute to mortality are discussed and compared to the literature. Hook type, gear action, landing procedures, and air exposure were key areas of possible improvement. Recommendations to minimize fish harm during angling include the use of heavier action gear to reduce fight time, a circle hook requirement for live bait to reduce deep hooking, maintaining fish in the water during landing and photography, and limiting air exposure to 2 min or less if fish are removed from the water.</p>","PeriodicalId":51257,"journal":{"name":"Marine and Coastal Fisheries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mcf2.10238","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44325764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Trends in Area of Occurrence and Biomass of Fish and Macroinvertebrates on the Northeast U.S. Shelf Ecosystem","authors":"Kevin D. Friedland,&nbsp;Kisei R. Tanaka,&nbsp;Szymon Smoliński,&nbsp;Yanjun Wang,&nbsp;Cameron Hodgdon,&nbsp;Mackenzie Mazur,&nbsp;John Wiedenmann,&nbsp;Chandra Goetsch,&nbsp;Daniel E. Pendleton","doi":"10.1002/mcf2.10235","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mcf2.10235","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Climate change can affect the habitat of marine species and hence their persistence and adaptation. Trends in area of occurrence and population biomass were examined for 177 fish and macroinvertebrates resident to the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf ecosystem. Samples of these organisms were taken during a time series of research bottom trawl surveys conducted in the spring and autumn 1976–2019. The occurrence area of each taxon was modeled as the distribution of occurrence probability based on a random forest presence/absence classification model. Following, a population biomass of each taxon was modeled as a minimum swept area estimate, where the ecosystem was stratified biannually based on each taxon's spatial distribution. In both seasons, the sum of occurrence area and biomass across all modeled species increased over the study period. The summation of biomass is problematic since catchability is not known for most species; more importantly, most time series of individual species biomass trended higher. We found that the ratio of biomass to occurrence area, intended as a measure of productivity, showed no change in the autumn and had a weak increasing trend in spring. For the majority of taxa, the rate of change in biomass tracked changes in occurrence area (either positive or negative), but there were cases where the direction of change in biomass was opposite to the direction of change in occurrence area. Thermal conditions in surface waters appear to be a more important driver of occurrence area and biomass change than the change in thermal conditions near the bottom. These findings provide critical insights into the expected changes in ecosystem productivity transpiring with climate change.</p>","PeriodicalId":51257,"journal":{"name":"Marine and Coastal Fisheries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mcf2.10235","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46968714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Effective Stakeholder Engagement for Offshore Wind Energy Development: The State of New York's Fisheries and Environmental Technical Working Groups","authors":"Morgan Brunbauer,&nbsp;Kate McClellan Press,&nbsp;Kathryn A. Williams,&nbsp;Brian K. Dresser,&nbsp;Julia Gulka,&nbsp;Greg Lampman","doi":"10.1002/mcf2.10236","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mcf2.10236","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The offshore wind (OSW) energy industry is rapidly developing in the United States. New federal mandates require at least 30 GW of OSW by 2030. With the largest goal in the eastern United States, the state of New York seeks to advance OSW in a way that is both environmentally and socially responsible as well as cost-effective. To achieve this, New York developed technical working groups (TWGs) in 2017 focused on critical topics relating to OSW energy development, including the Fisheries Technical Working Group and Environment Technical Working Group (F-TWG and E-TWG; collectively, “the TWGs”). The TWGs are composed of OSW developers, fishing industry (F-TWG) or environmental nongovernmental organizations (E-TWG), federal agency representatives, and state representatives from Maine to North Carolina. These groups advise the state of New York on OSW issues by emphasizing the use of science and technical expertise to inform decision making. The effectiveness of TWG collaborations is due to a variety of reasons, including the regional scale of stakeholder involvement, which allows the groups to develop guidance at an appropriate geographic scale relative to OSW and fishing activities and wildlife populations. The regional collaboration and communication fostered by the TWGs are essential for building trust among stakeholder groups and working collectively to minimize fisheries and environmental impacts as the OSW industry progresses. This paper highlights the OSW stakeholder engagement process and approach implemented by New York through the development of TWGs, as a means of identifying needs for environmental and fisheries resources to inform responsible OSW development within New York and regionally across the eastern United States. The lessons learned from the TWG process can be used to inform stakeholder engagement efforts in other locations.</p>","PeriodicalId":51257,"journal":{"name":"Marine and Coastal Fisheries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mcf2.10236","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48734523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Interactive Effects of Climate Change-Induced Range Shifts and Wind Energy Development on Future Economic Conditions of the Atlantic Surfclam Fishery","authors":"Stephanie Stromp,&nbsp;Andrew M. Scheld,&nbsp;John M. Klinck,&nbsp;Daphne M. Munroe,&nbsp;Eric N. Powell,&nbsp;Roger Mann,&nbsp;Sarah Borsetti,&nbsp;Eileen E. Hofmann","doi":"10.1002/mcf2.10232","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mcf2.10232","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Rising water temperatures along the northeastern U.S. continental shelf have resulted in an offshore range shift of the Atlantic surfclam <i>Spisula solidissima</i> to waters still occupied by ocean quahogs <i>Arctica islandica</i>. Fishers presently are prohibited from landing both Atlantic surfclams and ocean quahogs in the same catch, thus limiting fishing to locations where the target species can be sorted on deck. Wind energy development on and around the fishing grounds will further restrict the fishery. A spatially explicit model of the Atlantic surfclam fishery (Spatially Explicit Fishery Economics Simulator) has the ability to simulate the consequences of fishery displacement due to wind energy development in combination with fishery and stock dynamics related to the species' overlap with ocean quahogs. Five sets of simulations were run to determine the effect of varying degrees of species overlap due to Atlantic surfclam range shifts in conjunction with fishing constraints due to wind farm development. Simulations tracked changes in relative stock status, fishery performance, and the economic consequences for the fishery. Compared to a business-as-usual scenario, all scenarios with less-restrictive fishing penalties due to species overlap exhibited higher raw catch numbers but also greater reductions in revenue and increases in cost after the implementation of wind farms. This analysis serves to demonstrate the response of the Atlantic surfclam fishery to combined pressures from competing ocean uses and climate change and emphasizes the potential for economic disruption of fisheries as climate change interacts with the evolution of ocean management on the continental shelf.</p>","PeriodicalId":51257,"journal":{"name":"Marine and Coastal Fisheries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mcf2.10232","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47333141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Forage Fish Species Prefer Habitat within Designated Offshore Wind Energy Areas in the U.S. Northeast Shelf Ecosystem","authors":"Kevin D. Friedland,&nbsp;Evan M. Adams,&nbsp;Chandra Goetsch,&nbsp;Julia Gulka,&nbsp;Damian C. Brady,&nbsp;Everett Rzeszowski,&nbsp;Daniel P. Crear,&nbsp;Sarah Gaichas,&nbsp;Andrew B. Gill,&nbsp;M. Conor McManus,&nbsp;Elizabeth T. Methratta,&nbsp;Janelle L. Morano,&nbsp;Michelle D. Staudinger","doi":"10.1002/mcf2.10230","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mcf2.10230","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As the world develops sources of renewable energy, there is an intensifying interest in offshore wind energy production. The Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf (NES) ecosystem has favorable wind dynamics, with active development of wind energy. In this study, we present species distribution models that consider both occupancy and biomass responses for a broad spectrum of fish and macroinvertebrate taxa (<i>n</i> = 177). Building upon prior analyses, habitat was differentiated into overall and core habitats based on statistical distributions of habitat scores. Overall habitat was used to show each species' regional distribution based on fishery-independent survey captures between 1976 and 2019, whereas core habitat represented where the focus of the species' abundance was located as a subset of overall habitat. Wind energy developments may modify the water column in ways that impact lower-trophic-level productivity; therefore, added attention was given to the response of forage species. Over 20% of species showed preferential use of putative and potential wind development areas, including a disproportionate number of forage taxa. Principal usage varied by season, with forage species like Atlantic Menhaden <i>Brevoortia tyrannus</i> and Atlantic Mackerel <i>Scomber scombrus</i> preferentially using the lease areas in spring and Round Herring <i>Etrumeus teres</i> and longfin inshore squid <i>Doryteuthis pealeii</i> using lease areas in autumn. For species with relatively low usage of the lease areas, there was a tendency for the usage related to overall habitat to be lower than usage for core habitat; in contrast, for species with high usage of the lease areas, that usage was higher for overall habitat than for core habitat. The area of habitat tended to have positive trends across species, with these positive trends being disproportionately higher among forage taxa. These results frame the importance of wind lease areas for species in the NES, particularly forage taxa that fulfill many important ecological functions.</p>","PeriodicalId":51257,"journal":{"name":"Marine and Coastal Fisheries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mcf2.10230","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42076675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Vertebral Chemistry Distinguishes Nursery Habitats of Juvenile Shortfin Mako in the Eastern North Pacific Ocean","authors":"Benjamin R. LaFreniere,&nbsp;Oscar Sosa-Nishizaki,&nbsp;Sharon Z. Herzka,&nbsp;Owyn Snodgrass,&nbsp;Heidi Dewar,&nbsp;Nathan Miller,&nbsp;R.J. David Wells,&nbsp;John A. Mohan","doi":"10.1002/mcf2.10234","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mcf2.10234","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Shortfin Mako <i>Isurus oxyrinchus</i> are ecologically and economically important apex predators throughout the global oceans. The eastern North Pacific Ocean contains several coastal nurseries for this species, where juveniles can forage and grow until venturing into offshore pelagic habitats, where seasonal migration and reproduction occurs. Opportunistically sampled vertebrae from both male and female juvenile Shortfin Mako (65.5–134.4 cm total length, neonate to age 2) were sourced from two distinct nurseries in the eastern North Pacific: the Southern California Bight (<i>n</i> = 12), USA, and Bahía Sebastián Vizcaíno (<i>n</i> = 11), Mexico. Mineralized vertebral cartilage was analyzed to determine concentrations of selected elements (Li, Mg, Mn, Zn, Sr, Ba, standardized to Ca) using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, targeting growth bands at specific life stages, including postparturition at the birth band and the recent life history of the individual at the vertebral edge. The elemental variation exhibited by these individuals over ~1 month of life before capture was explored by comparing recent vertebral concentrations, with Zn:Ca, Sr:Ca, and Ba:Ca concentrations significantly different between nurseries (Southern California Bight versus Bahía Sebastián Vizcaíno). Element variability through ontogeny was detected, as Li:Ca, Mg:Ca, and Zn:Ca concentrations were significantly different between individual past and recent vertebral bands. These findings suggest that vertebral chemistry approaches may enhance understanding of nursery habitat sources of migratory sharks.</p>","PeriodicalId":51257,"journal":{"name":"Marine and Coastal Fisheries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mcf2.10234","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42415066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Comparing Atlantic Cod Temporal Spawning Dynamics across a Biogeographic Boundary: Insights from Passive Acoustic Monitoring","authors":"Rebecca V. Van Hoeck,&nbsp;Timothy J. Rowell,&nbsp;Micah J. Dean,&nbsp;Aaron N. Rice,&nbsp;Sofie M. Van Parijs","doi":"10.1002/mcf2.10226","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mcf2.10226","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Atlantic Cod <i>Gadus morhua</i>, which are overfished in the United States, are potentially vulnerable to disturbance from offshore wind energy (OWE) construction and operation during their spawning period. While many aspects of Atlantic Cod biology are well studied, little is known of their habitat use and spawning behavior at the extreme southern extent of the species' range. As Atlantic Cod form dense spawning aggregations and produce sounds associated with courtship behaviors, we used a combination of fixed-station and glider-based passive acoustic monitoring methods to evaluate the spatiotemporal spawning dynamics of Atlantic Cod in the Georges Bank stock. Additionally, we assessed potential interactions with OWE in designated offshore wind lease areas within southern New England waters of the western North Atlantic Ocean. Generalized linear modeling was used to evaluate correlations between cod grunt activity and multiple environmental cycles. Results from the southern New England spawning grounds were compared to similar data describing the geographically separated Massachusetts Bay winter-spawning subpopulation within the western Gulf of Maine stock. Temporal patterns in Atlantic Cod grunts suggest that spawning in southern New England waters is concentrated in November and December and is greatest near the new and full moons. Although there were fine-scale differences in the temporal dynamics of grunt presence between the two regions, the overall seasonality of inferred spawning was similar. Results suggest that Atlantic Cod spawning in southern New England overlaps with planned OWE construction in time and space. An understanding of cod spawning phenology in the western North Atlantic can be used to minimize disturbance to spawning through limiting construction timelines and consideration of turbine or cable placement.</p>","PeriodicalId":51257,"journal":{"name":"Marine and Coastal Fisheries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mcf2.10226","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41567337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Evaluating Potential Impacts of Offshore Wind Development on Fishing Operations by Comparing Fine- and Coarse-Scale Fishery-Dependent Data","authors":"Lianne M. Allen-Jacobson,&nbsp;Andrew W. Jones,&nbsp;Anna J. Mercer,&nbsp;Steven X. Cadrin,&nbsp;Benjamin Galuardi,&nbsp;Doug Christel,&nbsp;Angela Silva,&nbsp;Andrew Lipsky,&nbsp;Janne B. Haugen","doi":"10.1002/mcf2.10233","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mcf2.10233","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Climate change will disrupt many aspects of the marine environment, with anticipated effects for half of northeastern U.S. fisheries. To mitigate effects of climate change, the United States has designated 90,650 km² (35,000 mi²) of ocean for offshore wind energy development, but this growing industry could impact fisheries in the region. Hence, there is a need to measure the spatial distribution of fishing operations to support multiple goals, including spatial planning and compensatory mitigation. In the U.S. Northeast, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries developed fishing footprints previously by using logbooks. However, logbook footprints rely on coarse data: a single location, the center point of fishing trips reported in logbooks. Therefore, we evaluated bias in these logbook footprints by restricting the size of logbook footprints and by generating active-fishing footprints from fine-scale location data collected by a reference fleet operating in the same region. Active-fishing footprints act as a benchmark approximating the “true” fishing footprint and exposure to wind farms. We focused on the longfin inshore squid <i>Doryteuthis pealeii</i> fishery, including 336 trips from 2016 to 2019, and 38 wind farms in southern New England and the Middle Atlantic Bight. Compared to the benchmark active-fishing footprints, unrestricted logbook footprints detected all exposed trips. As we restricted the logbook footprints, the logbook analysis failed to detect exposed trips but better approximated the amount of exposed revenue. Finally, unrestricted logbook footprints underestimated the exposed revenue for high-impact wind farms and overestimated the exposed revenue for low-impact wind farms, and this bias declined with logbook footprint restriction. We show how restricting logbook footprints could improve exposure analysis that depends on coarse-scale data when fine-scale data are unavailable. Furthermore, our analysis highlights the limits of coarse-scale data (i.e., logbook footprints). Therefore, we recommend additional incentives for voluntary participation in programs collecting fine-scale data. These incentives should be prioritized because informed, time-sensitive decisions depend on data collected prior to construction of offshore wind farms.</p>","PeriodicalId":51257,"journal":{"name":"Marine and Coastal Fisheries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mcf2.10233","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46062176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"The Role of Fishery-Independent Bottom Trawl Surveys in Providing Regional and Temporal Context to Offshore Wind Farm Monitoring Studies","authors":"Brian Gervelis,&nbsp;Dara H. Wilber,&nbsp;Lorraine Brown,&nbsp;Drew A. Carey","doi":"10.1002/mcf2.10231","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mcf2.10231","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Bottom trawl surveys are commonly used to examine potential effects on fishes and invertebrates from offshore wind (OSW) farms in Europe and in the northeastern United States. Because OSW surveys typically occur over a limited spatial footprint, comparison of OSW monitoring results to long-term fishery-independent surveys may provide a regional and temporal context for OSW data sets. We compared results of the Block Island Wind Farm (BIWF) bottom trawl survey (2013–2019) to three fishery-independent bottom trawl surveys (Northeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, and Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management [RIDEM]) using catch rates of 12 federally managed species. We evaluated temporal trends in annual residual catches for each species calculated within each survey as the difference between the mean annual biomass per trawl and the long-term mean. Regional consistency in relative catches was apparent for species exhibiting synchronous interannual variability among surveys (Black Sea Bass <i>Centropristis striata</i>, Scup <i>Stenotomus chrysops</i>, Summer Flounder <i>Paralichthys dentatus</i>, and Winter Flounder <i>Pseudopleuronectes americanus</i>) or a decreasing trend in residual catch rates across the 7-year study period (Little Skate <i>Leucoraja erinacea</i>, longfin inshore squid <i>Doryteuthis pealeii</i>, and Winter Skate <i>L. ocellata</i>). For other species, catches among surveys were asynchronous (Atlantic Herring <i>Clupea harengus</i>, Butterfish <i>Peprilus triacanthus</i>, and Windowpane <i>Scophthalmus aquosus</i>) or anomalous catches in a single year affected the results (Red Hake <i>Urophycis chuss</i> and Silver Hake <i>Merluccius bilinearis</i>). Monitoring of BIWF occurred during a period with lower-than-average historical catches in a 32-year RIDEM data set for Atlantic Herring, Butterfish, Little Skate, longfin inshore squid, Red Hake, Silver Hake, and Winter Flounder and higher-than-average catches for Black Sea Bass, Scup, and Summer Flounder. There was no evidence that variation in catches near BIWF differed from regional trends in a way consistent with a detrimental impact of OSW farm operation. The regional context provided from multiple bottom trawl surveys varies by species and thus may be limited for interpreting OSW monitoring results.</p>","PeriodicalId":51257,"journal":{"name":"Marine and Coastal Fisheries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mcf2.10231","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45173644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}