Camila Vargas Poulsen, A. Rivera, Veronica L Ortiz, J. Castilla, Rodrigo A. Estévez, Francisca Reyes-Mendy, S. Gelcich
{"title":"Exploring relationships between gender and collective action in artisanal fisher associations of Central Chile","authors":"Camila Vargas Poulsen, A. Rivera, Veronica L Ortiz, J. Castilla, Rodrigo A. Estévez, Francisca Reyes-Mendy, S. Gelcich","doi":"10.5343/bms.2021.0052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2021.0052","url":null,"abstract":"Artisanal fisher associations have experienced a shift towards gender inclusivity over the past decade. We used the social-ecological systems framework developed by Elinor Ostrom to explore relationships between gender and collective action. Questionnaires were used to determine (1) motivations to join an association, (2) socio-demographic information, (3) perceptions on key collective action dimensions around leadership and norms within the association, and (4) perceived social performance. Surveys targeted artisanal fisher associations in Chile with varying gender compositions: exclusively male members, exclusively female members, mixed-gender led by a man, and mixed-gender led by a woman. Our results show that women and men have distinct motivations to join an association. Women are primarily motivated by a sense of belonging, while men are mainly motivated by the possibility of an increase in income. Furthermore, associations comprised of women displayed higher valuations on leadership, entrepreneurship, and participation in activities. This likely led to the significantly higher performance of associations that incorporated women (either women-only or mixed gender) in efficiency (30.1%–40.3% higher) and cooperation (13.8%–30.8% higher). Our results extend the social-ecological systems framework towards understanding the role of gender in collective action for fisheries management and specifically contribute to build knowledge and implement novel policy which considers gender in artisanal fisheries in Chile.","PeriodicalId":55312,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Marine Science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70883739","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}
Lachlan AW Ramm, J. Florisson, Stephanie L. Watts, A. Becker, J. Tweedley
{"title":"Artificial reefs in the Anthropocene: a review of geographical and historical trends in their design, purpose, and monitoring","authors":"Lachlan AW Ramm, J. Florisson, Stephanie L. Watts, A. Becker, J. Tweedley","doi":"10.5343/bms.2020.0046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2020.0046","url":null,"abstract":"The long history of artificial reefs has stimulated diversity in their physical properties and deployment for a range of purposes. A systematic literature search yielded 804 scientific publications on artificial reefs. A database of their characteristics was constructed and used to investigate geographical and historical trends. A total of 1074 unique artificial reefs from 71 countries were identified, with 89% located in the northern hemisphere, but equally distributed between eastern and western. Reefs were assigned to one of three categories: (A) unintentional deployment, (B) intentional deployment but unintentional reef, and (C) intentional artificial reef. Category A reefs consisted predominantly of accidental shipwrecks. Category B reefs were primarily coastal defense structures in shallow waters and active oil and gas infrastructures at greater depths. The number of Category C reefs increased after 1965, with most in depths of 10–30 m. Most were constructed from concrete or steel, followed by rock and rubber. Usage of concrete as a material steadily increased, while those of steel and rubber decreased, coinciding with the transition from objects (materials) of opportunity to purpose-built reefs. Most reefs were deployed to enhance faunal communities or fisheries, particularly recreational fishing in North America and Australia. Monitoring was most often performed using underwater visual census but transitioned to more technologically advanced methods, particularly in more affluent countries over recent decades. We present a standardized protocol for describing artificial reefs and urge authors to include all relevant data in their publications to allow future comparisons to enhance our understanding and evaluation of these structures.","PeriodicalId":55312,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Marine Science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70882809","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":"Multispecies spawning of scleractinian corals in nonreefal coral communities of northern Taiwan (northwestern Pacific Ocean)","authors":"Chieh-Jhen Chen, Wei‐Jen Chen, Ching-Fong Chang","doi":"10.5343/BMS.2020.0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5343/BMS.2020.0058","url":null,"abstract":"There is a large body of information on sexual reproduction in scleractinian corals, but regional gaps remain, especially in nonreefal coral communities. This study documented the reproductive patterns of 54 coral species in 23 genera and 8 families (41 hermaphroditic spawners, 10 gonochoric spawners, 2 hermaphroditic brooders, and 1 gonochoric brooder) in northern Taiwan by field observations and histological analysis, which indicated that they predominantly spawned in August while fewer spawned in July, September, and October. Based on the field observations, 50 species in 21 genera and 7 families spawned between 20:00 and 22:00 hrs for 5–8 consecutive nights after the full moon in July and August from 2013 to 2016. The spawning patterns varied profoundly in species and colony number from 2014 to 2016: 19 species (42 colonies) in 2014, 6 species (20 colonies) in 2015, and 33 species (120 colonies) in 2016. Most merulinid and lobophyllid corals were observed to spawn consistently over the three years, particularly Favites pentagona, and corals splitly spawned within the colony. Five coral species spawned bimonthly. Three brooding corals (Pocillopora damicornis, Stylophora pistillata, and Porites lichen) also sexually reproduced between summer and early fall. Through this study, we obtained a better understanding of spatial and temporal patterns of the sexual reproduction of corals in nonreefal coral communities. Furthermore, this research may have broader biogeological implications for the northwestern Pacific Ocean region.","PeriodicalId":55312,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Marine Science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70882959","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}
K. Lorenzen, K. Leber, N. Loneragan, Ryan W. Schloesser, M. D. Taylor
{"title":"Developing and integrating enhancement strategies to improve and restore fisheries","authors":"K. Lorenzen, K. Leber, N. Loneragan, Ryan W. Schloesser, M. D. Taylor","doi":"10.5343/bms.2021.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2021.0036","url":null,"abstract":"Fisheries enhancements are management approaches involving the use of aquaculture and habitat technologies (in the broadest sense) to enhance or restore fisheries. The technologies most commonly used include hatchery rearing and release of aquatic animals and provision of artificial structures such as artificial reefs. Both are associated with distinct fields of knowledge and communities of practice. Recent calls to expand and broaden the role of aquaculture and habitat enhancements in marine conservation and an increasingly integrated view of living marine resource management have led to an aspirational broadening of concepts in this area. The 10th William R and Lenore Mote Symposium and 6th International Symposium on Stock Enhancement and Sea Ranching aimed to advance and integrate knowledge across enhancement technologies and practices. Substantial progress was noted in multiple technical areas such as understanding the potential and limitations for rearing organisms fit for release into the wild, and the design of artificial reefs to enhance local fish abundance. Crucial higher-level goals such as effectively enhancing or restoring fish abundance and fisheries at the stock level continue to receive insufficient attention across the enhancement sciences. Integration of enhancement strategies provides opportunities and challenges including a need to recognize, cross-discover, and engage other distinct areas of knowledge and communities of practice. A quick reference guide is provided to facilitate this process.","PeriodicalId":55312,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Marine Science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70883787","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":"Dispersal of yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi) from a coastal embayment following a recreational fisheries enhancement stocking program: attempts to integrate aquaculture and habitat-based initiatives","authors":"A. Becker, M. Lowry, D. Fielder, M. D. Taylor","doi":"10.5343/bms.2021.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2021.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Fisheries enhancement initiatives including marine stocking and artificial reef deployments are becoming increasingly common in many parts of the world. Combining the two by releasing hatchery reared fish onto artificial reefs is used in sea-ranching operations but is an approach rarely adopted for recreational fisheries. Yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi) form a valuable recreational fishery in Australia and in 2018 a pilot stocking program was initiated to enhance this fishery. Fish were released onto estuarine artificial reefs in Botany Bay to evaluate if estuarine artificial reefs are suitable release habitat for juvenile yellowtail kingfish and to monitor their dispersal patterns using acoustic telemetry and a tag-recapture program. Both approaches showed similar patterns, indicating juvenile yellowtail kingfish rapidly dispersed from the release location and can travel at least 60 km during their first weeks in the wild. Twenty percent of the acoustically tagged fish entered nearby estuaries to the north and south and tagged fish were also recaptured in these estuaries, indicating that the estuaries provide habitat for juveniles. There was little interaction between stocked fish and two large coastal artificial reefs positioned near Botany Bay. Stocked yellowtail kingfish will likely disperse rapidly from release locations which is consistent with their pelagic life history. While this may present challenges to fisheries managers, increasing release numbers to maintain stocking densities over a broader area may provide a solution. Future releases of fish on coastal natural and artificial reefs are an important next step in refining stocking practices for this species and will help further identify key juvenile habitats.","PeriodicalId":55312,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Marine Science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70883390","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":"Predation on a newly-stocked long-spined sea urchin (Diadema antillarum) by the batwing coral crab (Carpilius corallinus) on a coral reef restoration site","authors":"W. Sharp, Brian A Reckenbeil","doi":"10.5343/bms.2021.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2021.0032","url":null,"abstract":"This photograph documents a batwing coral crab (Carpilius corallinus) preying on the sea urchin Diadema antillarum at a coral reef site enhanced with artificial shelter and staghorn coral. The photograph captures an interaction that needs to be better understood to develop a reef restoration strategy that harnesses positive ecological processes.","PeriodicalId":55312,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Marine Science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70883525","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}
Mariana L. Santana‐Cisneros, R. Rodríguez-Canul, J. A. Zamora-Briseño, M. Améndola-Pimenta, R. D. Silva-Dávila, U. Ordóñez-López, I. Velázquez‐Abunader, P. Ardisson
{"title":"Morphological and molecular identification of Octopoda (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) paralarvae from the southern Gulf of Mexico","authors":"Mariana L. Santana‐Cisneros, R. Rodríguez-Canul, J. A. Zamora-Briseño, M. Améndola-Pimenta, R. D. Silva-Dávila, U. Ordóñez-López, I. Velázquez‐Abunader, P. Ardisson","doi":"10.5343/BMS.2020.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5343/BMS.2020.0027","url":null,"abstract":"Paralarvae (PL) are crucial to understanding the life cycle and population dynamics of cephalopods. Misidentification of species with similar morphology is a problem that hampers understanding of cephalopod composition and distribution. In this study, we used morphological and molecular approaches to carry out a comprehensive identification of Octopoda PL that inhabit two main areas (Tamaulipas and Yucatán) in the southern Gulf of Mexico (GoM). A total of 189 PL were identified using morphological criteria. Of these, 52 PL were analyzed molecularly by sequencing the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene. We identified four species and five morphotypes. The molecular tools corroborated three out of four species, while the molecular sequences of three out of four morphotypes indicated that they belong to three different species. All the genetic sequences had high similarities (99.3%–100%) with previous records. One species and one morphotype could not be sequenced because of unsatisfactory fixation; one morphotype remained as such after the molecular analysis. An identification tree was constructed for the species identified with the molecular approach. The species found off the Yucatán platform were Octopus vulgaris Type I, Octopus americanus, Macrotritopus defilippi, Amphioctopus burryi, A. cf. burryi, Octopus sp., and Callistoctopus furvu s. The species identified off the Tamaulipas coast were Octopus insularis and M. defilippi. Paralarvae of O. vulgaris Type I and M. defilippi were the most abundant during 2016–2017. This study provides the first record of Octopoda PL in the southern GoM, including morphological descriptions and molecular sequences of the analyzed taxa.","PeriodicalId":55312,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Marine Science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70881389","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":"Active Coral Restoration: Techniques for a Changing Planet by David E Vaughan","authors":"Elizabeth C. Shaver","doi":"10.5343/bms.2021.0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2021.0042","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\">Book Review</xhtml:span>","PeriodicalId":55312,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Marine Science","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70883933","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. J. Mercado-Santiago, P. Hernández-Alcántara, V. Solís-Weiss
{"title":"Spatial and bathymetric trends in composition and taxonomic diversity of Polychaeta (Annelida) assemblages from the deep Southern Gulf of California","authors":"A. J. Mercado-Santiago, P. Hernández-Alcántara, V. Solís-Weiss","doi":"10.5343/BMS.2020.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5343/BMS.2020.0029","url":null,"abstract":"The deepsea fauna from the southern Gulf of California is currently poorly known, with only 193 species reported to date. The aim of this study was to analyze the composition, density, species richness, and taxonomic diversity (Δ) of the deepsea polychaetes of this region. Fifteen stations (238–2900 m depth) were sampled in 2012 and 2013. Eighty-four species from 58 genera and 26 families were identified. Density ranged from 4.76 to 42.86 ind 0.1m−2 and was not significantly correlated with depth; species richness ranged from 2 to 17 species per station, the lowest (2–6 species) occurring between depths of 651 and 915 m. Four assemblages were identified associated with depth (RANOSIM = 0.43, P = 0.002) and geographic position (RANOSIM = 0.56, P = 0.001): Prionospio elhersi–Subadyte mexicana–Syllis alternata (<350 m depth) and Aricidea sp. A–Ninoe jessicae (600–1000 m) in the western gulf; Onuphis similis–Aricidea (Acmira) simplex (1300–1600 m) and Aglaophamus paucilamellata–Sthenolepis spargens (>1200 m) in the middle gulf; stations 14A and 2A, sharing only their position at the far eastern gulf, remained isolated from any other assemblage. The highest diversity was found at 1300–1600 m (Δ = 86.1) and at >2000 m (Δ = 83–98) but decreased to Δ = 61.85 at 600–1000 m. The assemblage structure based on genera and family levels were similar to those based on species (Rho > 0.6), suggesting that either of the former two could be suitable surrogates for monitoring changes at the studied depths.","PeriodicalId":55312,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Marine Science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70881448","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":"Influence of intra- and interspecific competition on periphyton biomass and growth performance of Holothuria scabra juveniles","authors":"Jay R Gorospe, M. A. Juinio-Meñez, P. Southgate","doi":"10.5343/bms.2020.0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2020.0048","url":null,"abstract":"The effects of sea cucumber (Holothuria scabra) juvenile density and interspecific competition from the opisthobranch Stylocheilus striatus (SS) on periphyton biomass and growth performance of H. scabra (HS) were assessed. The number of H. scabra juveniles (15, 50, 100) in net enclosures (treatments HS15, HS50, and HS100) was varied and feeding activity of S. striatus was assessed at a density of 15 individuals per net enclosure (treatment SS15), and in co-culture with H. scabra (treatment HS15/SS15). A control treatment without H. scabra or S. striatus was included in the 28-d experiment. Highest and lowest growth rates of H. scabra occurred in the lowest (HS15) and highest (HS100) stocking density treatments, respectively, on days 14 and 28. Growth of H. scabra juveniles in the HS15 treatment was more than double that of those in the HS15/SS15 treatment. Juvenile survival was significantly higher in the HS15 treatment on days 14 and 28, but did not differ significantly from that of juveniles in the HS15/SS15 and HS50 treatments on day 14. Grazing activity of sea cucumber juveniles and S. striatus resulted in a decline in periphyton biomass (AFDW) after day 7. Differences in food consumption (based on faecal production) among treatments were significant only on days 1 and 21 with the greatest consumption (17.5 mg periphyton ind−1 d−1) by S. striatus in the SS15 treatment. Holothuria scabra juveniles in the HS15 treatment consumed 4.9 mg ind−1 d−1, while those in the HS100 treatment consumed only 1.8 mg ind−1 d−1 after 24 hrs.","PeriodicalId":55312,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Marine Science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70882840","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}