Caitlin Langwiser, Nathan R Vaughan, Laura Jay W Grove
{"title":"Quantifying hurricane impacts on United States Virgin Islands reef fishes using a catchability invariant approach to compare uncalibrated survey indices","authors":"Caitlin Langwiser, Nathan R Vaughan, Laura Jay W Grove","doi":"10.5343/bms.2023.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2023.0011","url":null,"abstract":"The United States Virgin Island’s (USVI) coral reefs support many economically and ecologically important fish species. Located in the Caribbean Sea, they are subject to frequent severe weather disturbances, including two category 5 hurricanes, Irma and Maria, in 2017. The overarching goal of this study was to identify reef fish community impacts following these extreme events using discontinuous survey indices. Long-term (2001–2021), in situ, fishery-independent survey data using two methods were standardized to the extent possible in two regions of the USVI, St. Thomas/St. John (STT/STJ) and St. Croix (STX). Comparable data were assessed, 73 species collected on hard-bottom habitat, to identify the number of these species with significant changes in density and/or mean length between two-year survey intervals over the historic baseline (2001–2015), disturbance (2017–2019), and post-disturbance (2019–2021) periods. The results varied by region: STT/STJ had no disturbance impact and STX had a significant disturbance impact. In STX, 20 species had significant changes in density in the disturbance period compared to an average of 9.7 (SD 3.8) species for the baseline period. The proportion of species with significant density increases and decreases were similar suggesting that overall disturbance impacts are nuanced. Mean length observations were less informative, likely due to survey method and sample size changes. However, in combination with density they provided useful insights into the possible causes of population change. The successful use of discontinuous survey indices to obtain meaningful biological insights has broader applications to ecosystem and fishery datasets with similar limitations.","PeriodicalId":55312,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Marine Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135953830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cao Thi Thu Trang, Nguyen Van Cong, Pham Thi Da, Nguyen Xuan Thanh, Pham Thi Kha, Tran Anh Tu
{"title":"Management of buoyant materials in aquaculture for brackish and salt water in Quảng Ninh province (Vietnam)","authors":"Cao Thi Thu Trang, Nguyen Van Cong, Pham Thi Da, Nguyen Xuan Thanh, Pham Thi Kha, Tran Anh Tu","doi":"10.5343/bms.2022.0069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2022.0069","url":null,"abstract":"High-density polyethylene (HDPE) material is widely used to make buoys in aquaculture. However, in Vietnam, Styrofoam is still the most popular material used among fish farmers due to its buoyancy, low cost, and availability in the market. There is a lack of regulations for the use and disposal of Styrofoam; moreover, a lack of concern regarding the consequences of mismanagement leads to impacts on the marine environment and ecosystems. HDPE plastic is a good substitute for Styrofoam, but the question is how to convince aquaculture households to voluntarily shift from one material to another or even force them through appropriate legislation for a cleaner environment. Based on the durability characteristics of Styrofoam and HDPE plastic, we have developed a local technical regulation on floating materials in aquaculture, which has been endorsed by the People Committee of Quang Ninh province and promulgated for adoption through the document coded QCDP 08:2020/QN. The method is a technical fence to be deployed to remove the foam buoys from aquaculture in the Quang Ninh province. So far, 87.8% of the buoys in the province have been converted to new materials. Quang Ninh is the first province in Vietnam to have a breakthrough in the management of foam buoys, contributing to the reduction of plastic waste in aquaculture.","PeriodicalId":55312,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Marine Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135701226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Increasing risk of migrations through the Panama Canal","authors":"Aaron O'Dea, Gustavo A Castellanos-Galindo","doi":"10.5343/bms.2023.0074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2023.0074","url":null,"abstract":"Lv:0:53:http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#XMLLiteral<xhtml:span xmlns:xhtml=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\" xml:lang=\"en\">[Editorial]</xhtml:span>","PeriodicalId":55312,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Marine Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135440918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First observation of the nudibranch Dermatobranchus tongshanensis (Nudibranchia: Arminidae) feeding on gorgonian Echinomuricea spinifera","authors":"S. K. Yiu, J. T. H. Chung","doi":"10.5343/bms.2022.0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2022.0041","url":null,"abstract":"We report a field observation of Dermatobranchus tongshanensis feeding on Echinomuricea spinifera. Before this study, the diet of D. tongshanensis had never been reported. Our laboratory observation revealed D. tongshanensis fed on E. spinifera only but did not ingest gorgonian Echinogorgia sp. and black coral Antipathes curvata provided.","PeriodicalId":55312,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Marine Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70885180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kellie Flowers, Paige Golembeski, Bailey Ross, Richard F. Karp, A. Baker
{"title":"Visual surveys reveal coral growth in mangrove fringe in a subtropical metropolis","authors":"Kellie Flowers, Paige Golembeski, Bailey Ross, Richard F. Karp, A. Baker","doi":"10.5343/bms.2023.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2023.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Although coexisting mangrove-coral (CMC) habitats have been identified and categorized globally, they are still underreported and understudied. Visual surveys revealed the presence of five species of corals in two out of four potential CMC habitats around Biscayne Bay, Miami, Florida, a highly urbanized subtropical lagoon. These corals were dominated by algal symbionts in the genus Breviolum, suggesting these low-light but thermally variable environments may be buffered from photoinhibition stress that characterizes nearby hardbottom environments. Further surveys and monitoring of CMCs, particularly in urban environments, may inform coastal community ecology and advance conservation and restoration efforts.","PeriodicalId":55312,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Marine Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70885511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Eggleston, S. Searcy, C. Dahlgren, N. Reyns, Taylor A. Shropshire
{"title":"Recruitment of postlarval spiny lobster, stone crabs, and larval fish to back-reef nursery habitats in the Florida Keys, USA","authors":"D. Eggleston, S. Searcy, C. Dahlgren, N. Reyns, Taylor A. Shropshire","doi":"10.5343/bms.2023.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2023.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Back reef areas contain a mosaic of relatively shallow habitats that serve as a key nursery for reef species. Expansive back reef habitats in the lower Florida Keys, USA border the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. A combination of floating, artificial settlement substrates and plankton nets moored in channels connecting coastal waters and back reef habitats quantified spiny lobster (Panulirus argus) and stone crab (Menippe sp.) settlement, and larval fish ingress, respectively, during 1999 and 2002–2003. The key finding was that channels connecting coastal waters with back reef areas serve as conduits for ingressing larval spiny lobster, stone crabs, and fishes. The results highlight the important role of Atlantic Ocean sources of spiny lobster pueruli and lutjanid fish larvae in this back reef system, and Gulf sources of stone crabs. Spiny lobster settlement generally peaked in August and September and occurred on the Atlantic Ocean side of this back reef system; settlement of stone crabs peaked at the same time as spiny lobster yet occurred predominantly on the Gulf side. Recruitment of larval fish was higher on the Atlantic than Gulf side, with 37% of fish species collected nearly exclusively on the Atlantic side and about 25% collected nearly exclusively on the Gulf side. Channel habitats appear critical to supporting the nursery role of back reef habitats and should receive special consideration in future ecosystem studies, as well as during spatial planning and evaluations of essential fish habitat.","PeriodicalId":55312,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Marine Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70885547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Mohapatra, R. Behera, D. Ray, Smrutirekha Acharya, S. R. Mohanty, S. S. Mishra
{"title":"Discovery of a new Muraenichthys eel (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from the Bay of Bengal, India, with its molecular characterization","authors":"A. Mohapatra, R. Behera, D. Ray, Smrutirekha Acharya, S. R. Mohanty, S. S. Mishra","doi":"10.5343/bms.2023.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2023.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Muraenichthys hibinoi sp. nov. is described herein based on two specimens collected from Shankarpur fishing harbor, West Bengal, India. The new species differs from Muraenichthys gymnopterus, Muraenichthys hattae, Muraenichthys longirostris, and Muraenichthys thompsoni by having less distance between the anus and the origin of dorsal fin (61.8%–57.37% vs 73.8%–82% in HL). The new species has a close morphological affinity with Muraenichthys gymnopterus and Muraenichthys hattae with significant differences from both species. The new species differs from Muraenichthys gymnopterus by having higher vertebral count, i.e., predorsal vertebrae (40–41 vs 30), pre-anal vertebrae (50 vs 43), and total vertebrae (140–141 vs 130). The new species also differs from Muraenichthys hattae, having fewer total vertebrae (141–142 vs 148–155) and fewer pre-dorsal vertebrae (40–41 vs 48–53). The COI gene sequence of the new species has been generated and submitted to the NCBI database with accession numbers OP114397. The new species differs from all the available congeneric sequences for Myrophinae group available in NCBI or BOLD with K2P distances of 8.4% to 9.5%. Thus, both the genetic and morphometric data confirm the presence of a new species in Myrophinae from Indian waters.","PeriodicalId":55312,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Marine Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70885764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Observations on the mechanism of egg-capsule deposition in Melongena corona (Mollusca: Gastropoda) based on a time-lapse video","authors":"Carly Hulse, J. Leal, Joseph R Powell","doi":"10.5343/bms.2023.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2023.0021","url":null,"abstract":"We present observations on the mechanism of egg-capsule deposition in Melongena corona (Mollusca: Gastropoda) based on a time-lapse video.","PeriodicalId":55312,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Marine Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70885825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Indian Ocean macroalga new to the Atlantic: Halimeda macroloba (Chlorophyta, Halimedaceae) discovered and now established in Biscayne Bay, Florida","authors":"D. Ballantine, Julian Sprung, J. N. Norris","doi":"10.5343/bms.2023.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2023.0036","url":null,"abstract":"Halimeda macroloba, a large green tropical and semitropical alga, widely distributed in the Indian and Pacific Oceans has been discovered in Biscayne Bay, Florida in the western Atlantic Ocean.","PeriodicalId":55312,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Marine Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70885972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Uwe Zajonz, Sergey V Bogorodsky, Fouad N Saeed, Edouard Lavergne
{"title":"Goatfishes (Teleostei: Mullidae) of the Socotra Archipelago: Diversity and distributional biogeography, with a new record of <i>Parupeneus heptacantha</i> (Lacépède, 1802)","authors":"Uwe Zajonz, Sergey V Bogorodsky, Fouad N Saeed, Edouard Lavergne","doi":"10.5343/bms.2023.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2023.0035","url":null,"abstract":"The diversity of goatfishes from the Socotra Archipelago is documented for the first time. The distributional biogeography of the family in the Arabian region is analyzed and thoroughly discussed in the context of the western Indian Ocean. Twelve species of two genera, Mulloidichthys and Parupeneus , are positively recorded, including a new record for Parupeneus heptacantha . Upeneus heemstra is visually recorded, pending further documentation. The Socotra Archipelago thus hosts 13 of the 31 species found in Arabia. This degree of species richness is comparable to other Arabian ecoregions. With a single species the richness of Upeneus stands out as very low. Biogeographically, three main Arabian units are identified: a “Red Sea unit”, a “Gulf unit”, and a “Socotra unit”. The former two units are strongly characterized by endemics, notably within Upeneus , while there are no species endemic to the latter. The “Socotra unit”, comprising the Socotra Archipelago, eastern Gulf of Aden, and southern Oman, resembles more strongly all sites of the western Indian Ocean than the Arabian sites. The “Gulf unit” is the most distant to all other sites. These units do not cluster to a discrete “pan-Arabian” region within the wider western Indian Ocean. The Mullidae thus strongly contrast overall biogeographic patterns of coastal fishes and reef-building corals, which cumulatively suggest that Arabia forms a discrete biogeographic unit within the Indian Ocean. The study serves further analyses of contrasting biogeographies of major coastal fish families in Arabia, with a focus on the role of the southern Arabian upwelling areas.","PeriodicalId":55312,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Marine Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135758454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}