Climate variability and recruitment success of European hake (Merluccius merluccius L) in NW Africa ...
No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Recently it was stated a strong dependence of European hake abundance with climate variability in NW Africa. This relationship was explained by the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) driving the upwelling temporality and its geographic...
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ASC 2006 - Theme session C
2024
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Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.25258537 https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/Climate_variability_and_recruitment_success_of_European_hake_Merluccius_merluccius_L_in_NW_Africa/25258537 |
Summary: | No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Recently it was stated a strong dependence of European hake abundance with climate variability in NW Africa. This relationship was explained by the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) driving the upwelling temporality and its geographic coverage, which could be responsible of changes in survival rate during early life stages of this species. Following this hypothesis, this work focuses on the relative importance of climate variability on recruitment dynamics of European hake. Interannual variability of recruitment success were analyzed through two types of time series: (i) from monthly and annual length distribution fishery data (1982-1999) of Spanish trawling fleet that worked under Spanish or European-Moroccan fishery agreements and (ii) recruits annual abundance from scientific Moroccan surveys (1982-2004). The time series were compared with the annual smoothed NAO index to evaluate the type of relationship, persistence and their relative ... |
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