Environmental factors and megafauna spatio-temporal co-occurrence with purse-seine fisheries

• Published in: Fisheries Oceanography
• Main Authors: Escalle, Lauriane, Pennino, Maria Grazia, Gaertner, Daniel, Chavance, Pierre, Delgado de Molina, Alicia, Demarcq, Hervé, Romanov, Evgeny, Merigot, Bastien
• Other Authors: MARine Biodiversity Exploitation and Conservation (UMR MARBEC), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centro Oceanográfico de Murcia, Instituto Español de Oceanografía - Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas España = Spanish National Research Council Spain (CSIC)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas España = Spanish National Research Council Spain (CSIC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas España = Spanish National Research Council Spain (CSIC), ARDA CAP RUN
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2016
• Subjects: cetaceans; Eastern Atlantic Ocean; generalized additive models-boosted regression trees; marine conservation; purse-seine fishery; residual autocovariate; Western Indian Ocean; whale sharks; [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology; [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes; [SDV.EE.ECO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology; environment/Ecosystems; Gam; Indian; baleen whales
• Online Access: https://hal.umontpellier.fr/hal-01924111; https://hal.umontpellier.fr/hal-01924111/document; https://hal.umontpellier.fr/hal-01924111/file/escalle2016Full.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1111/fog.12163

International audience Tropical tuna purse-seine fisheries spatially co-occur with various megafauna species, such as whale sharks, dolphins and baleen whales in all oceans of the world. Here, we analyzed a 10-year (2002-2011) dataset from logbooks of European tropical tuna purse-seine vessels opera...