Nursery areas and recruitment variation of Northeast Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus)
There are currently no dedicated recruitment survey data available in support of the assessment of the abundance and distribution of Northeast Atlantic (NEA) mackerel (Scomber scombrus), one of the most widespread and commercially important fish stocks in the North Atlantic. This is despite the fact...
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ftdtupubl:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/a6dd164d-eee4-495f-9299-320bd1ea91af 2024-06-23T07:55:19+00:00 Nursery areas and recruitment variation of Northeast Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) Jansen, Teunis Kristensen, Kasper Van der Kooij, Jeroen Post, Søren Lorenzen Campbell, Andrew Utne, Kjell Rong Carrera, Pablo Jacobsen, Jan Arge Gudmundssdottir, Asta Roel, Beatriz A. Hatfield, Emma M. C. 2015 application/pdf https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/a6dd164d-eee4-495f-9299-320bd1ea91af https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsu186 https://backend.orbit.dtu.dk/ws/files/101853615/Publishers_version.pdf eng eng https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/a6dd164d-eee4-495f-9299-320bd1ea91af info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Jansen , T , Kristensen , K , Van der Kooij , J , Post , S L , Campbell , A , Utne , K R , Carrera , P , Jacobsen , J A , Gudmundssdottir , A , Roel , B A & Hatfield , E M C 2015 , ' Nursery areas and recruitment variation of Northeast Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) ' , ICES Journal of Marine Science , vol. 72 , no. 6 , pp. 1779-1789 . https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsu186 /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/life_below_water name=SDG 14 - Life Below Water article 2015 ftdtupubl https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsu186 2024-06-11T14:37:53Z There are currently no dedicated recruitment survey data available in support of the assessment of the abundance and distribution of Northeast Atlantic (NEA) mackerel (Scomber scombrus), one of the most widespread and commercially important fish stocks in the North Atlantic. This is despite the fact that an estimate of recruitment is an important requirement for the provision of advice to fishery managers. The work here addresses this by compiling catch rates of juvenile mackerel from bottom-trawl surveys conducted between October and March during 1998–2012 and applying a log Gaussian Cox (LGC) process geostatistical model incorporating spatio-temporal correlations. A statistically significant correlation between the modelled catch rates in adjacent quarters 4 and 1 (Q4 and Q1) demonstrates that bottom-trawl surveys in winter are an appropriate platform for sampling juvenile mackerel, and that the LCG model is successful in extracting a population abundance signal fromthe data. In this regard, the model performed appreciably better than a more commonly used raising algorithm based on survey swept-area estimates. Therefore, the LCG model was expanded to include data from the entire survey time-series, and a recruitment index was developed for use in the annual ICES stock assessment. We hypothesize that catchability is positively density-dependant and provides supporting evidence from acoustic observations. Various density-dependant transformations of the modelled catch rateswere furthermore found to improve the correlation between the derived annual recruitment index and recruitment estimated by backcalculation of adult mackerel data. Square root transformation led to the strongest correlation, so this is recommended for further analysis of mackerel abundance. Finally,we provide maps of spatial distributions, showing that the most important nursery areas are around Ireland, north and west of Scotland, in the northern North Sea north of 598Nand, to some extent, also in the Bay of Biscay. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Northeast Atlantic Technical University of Denmark: DTU Orbit ICES Journal of Marine Science 72 6 1779 1789 |
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There are currently no dedicated recruitment survey data available in support of the assessment of the abundance and distribution of Northeast Atlantic (NEA) mackerel (Scomber scombrus), one of the most widespread and commercially important fish stocks in the North Atlantic. This is despite the fact that an estimate of recruitment is an important requirement for the provision of advice to fishery managers. The work here addresses this by compiling catch rates of juvenile mackerel from bottom-trawl surveys conducted between October and March during 1998–2012 and applying a log Gaussian Cox (LGC) process geostatistical model incorporating spatio-temporal correlations. A statistically significant correlation between the modelled catch rates in adjacent quarters 4 and 1 (Q4 and Q1) demonstrates that bottom-trawl surveys in winter are an appropriate platform for sampling juvenile mackerel, and that the LCG model is successful in extracting a population abundance signal fromthe data. In this regard, the model performed appreciably better than a more commonly used raising algorithm based on survey swept-area estimates. Therefore, the LCG model was expanded to include data from the entire survey time-series, and a recruitment index was developed for use in the annual ICES stock assessment. We hypothesize that catchability is positively density-dependant and provides supporting evidence from acoustic observations. Various density-dependant transformations of the modelled catch rateswere furthermore found to improve the correlation between the derived annual recruitment index and recruitment estimated by backcalculation of adult mackerel data. Square root transformation led to the strongest correlation, so this is recommended for further analysis of mackerel abundance. Finally,we provide maps of spatial distributions, showing that the most important nursery areas are around Ireland, north and west of Scotland, in the northern North Sea north of 598Nand, to some extent, also in the Bay of Biscay. |
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Jansen, Teunis Kristensen, Kasper Van der Kooij, Jeroen Post, Søren Lorenzen Campbell, Andrew Utne, Kjell Rong Carrera, Pablo Jacobsen, Jan Arge Gudmundssdottir, Asta Roel, Beatriz A. Hatfield, Emma M. C. |
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Jansen, Teunis Kristensen, Kasper Van der Kooij, Jeroen Post, Søren Lorenzen Campbell, Andrew Utne, Kjell Rong Carrera, Pablo Jacobsen, Jan Arge Gudmundssdottir, Asta Roel, Beatriz A. Hatfield, Emma M. C. |
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Nursery areas and recruitment variation of Northeast Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) |
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Nursery areas and recruitment variation of Northeast Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) |
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Nursery areas and recruitment variation of Northeast Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) |
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Nursery areas and recruitment variation of Northeast Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) |
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Nursery areas and recruitment variation of Northeast Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) |
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nursery areas and recruitment variation of northeast atlantic mackerel (scomber scombrus) |
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Jansen , T , Kristensen , K , Van der Kooij , J , Post , S L , Campbell , A , Utne , K R , Carrera , P , Jacobsen , J A , Gudmundssdottir , A , Roel , B A & Hatfield , E M C 2015 , ' Nursery areas and recruitment variation of Northeast Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) ' , ICES Journal of Marine Science , vol. 72 , no. 6 , pp. 1779-1789 . https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsu186 |
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