Daylight vertical segregation of young-of-the-year Argentine hake Merluccius hubbsi: Advances in assessment of juvenile abundance with acoustic methods

Assessing juvenile Argentine hake stocks from the area swept by bottom-trawls has systematically produced underestimates, given the adult population levels recruited from them. To gain insight into the behavior and vertical distribution of first-year Argentine hake, acoustic data and both pelagic an...

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Autores principales: Álvarez-Colombo, G.L., Dato, C.V., Machinandiarena, L., Castro-Machado, F., Betti, P.
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Acoustic assessment
Merluccius
Patagonia
Vertical distribution
Young-of-the-year
Merluccius hubbsi
Rexea solandri
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_01657836_v160_n_p85_AlvarezColombo
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spelling todo:paper_01657836_v160_n_p85_AlvarezColombo2023-10-03T15:03:06Z Daylight vertical segregation of young-of-the-year Argentine hake Merluccius hubbsi: Advances in assessment of juvenile abundance with acoustic methods Álvarez-Colombo, G.L. Dato, C.V. Machinandiarena, L. Castro-Machado, F. Betti, P. Acoustic assessment Merluccius Patagonia Vertical distribution Young-of-the-year Merluccius Merluccius hubbsi Rexea solandri Assessing juvenile Argentine hake stocks from the area swept by bottom-trawls has systematically produced underestimates, given the adult population levels recruited from them. To gain insight into the behavior and vertical distribution of first-year Argentine hake, acoustic data and both pelagic and bottom-trawl net samples were collected in the nursery ground of the southern stock. Five surveys were carried out in the austral winters and summers from June 2011 to February 2013. Daylight echograms at 38. kHz showed horizontally extended aggregations of young-of-the-year (YOY) hake as layers 10-20. m thick separated from the seabed at average distances of 15-20. m in winter and 10-15. m in summer. They were above the reach of the bottom trawl nets routinely used in hake assessments. While close agreement of total length distributions was found between net samples and acoustic fish-track data in the juvenile's first winter, only the smaller fraction of the bimodal distribution shown by the acoustic data was present in pelagic trawl catches six months later, in the following summer. That suggests the larger fish can avoid the survey nets. Detection and assessment with acoustic methods allowed determination of the mean densities and horizontal distribution patterns of early juveniles in their main nursery ground. The mean juvenile densities obtained with acoustic methods were above one order of magnitude higher than those obtained by bottom trawls using the swept-area method. © 2014 Elsevier B.V. Fil:Betti, P. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. JOUR info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_01657836_v160_n_p85_AlvarezColombo
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topic Acoustic assessment
Merluccius
Patagonia
Vertical distribution
Young-of-the-year
Merluccius
Merluccius hubbsi
Rexea solandri
spellingShingle Acoustic assessment
Merluccius
Patagonia
Vertical distribution
Young-of-the-year
Merluccius
Merluccius hubbsi
Rexea solandri
Álvarez-Colombo, G.L.
Dato, C.V.
Machinandiarena, L.
Castro-Machado, F.
Betti, P.
Daylight vertical segregation of young-of-the-year Argentine hake Merluccius hubbsi: Advances in assessment of juvenile abundance with acoustic methods
topic_facet Acoustic assessment
Merluccius
Patagonia
Vertical distribution
Young-of-the-year
Merluccius
Merluccius hubbsi
Rexea solandri
description Assessing juvenile Argentine hake stocks from the area swept by bottom-trawls has systematically produced underestimates, given the adult population levels recruited from them. To gain insight into the behavior and vertical distribution of first-year Argentine hake, acoustic data and both pelagic and bottom-trawl net samples were collected in the nursery ground of the southern stock. Five surveys were carried out in the austral winters and summers from June 2011 to February 2013. Daylight echograms at 38. kHz showed horizontally extended aggregations of young-of-the-year (YOY) hake as layers 10-20. m thick separated from the seabed at average distances of 15-20. m in winter and 10-15. m in summer. They were above the reach of the bottom trawl nets routinely used in hake assessments. While close agreement of total length distributions was found between net samples and acoustic fish-track data in the juvenile's first winter, only the smaller fraction of the bimodal distribution shown by the acoustic data was present in pelagic trawl catches six months later, in the following summer. That suggests the larger fish can avoid the survey nets. Detection and assessment with acoustic methods allowed determination of the mean densities and horizontal distribution patterns of early juveniles in their main nursery ground. The mean juvenile densities obtained with acoustic methods were above one order of magnitude higher than those obtained by bottom trawls using the swept-area method. © 2014 Elsevier B.V.
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author Álvarez-Colombo, G.L.
Dato, C.V.
Machinandiarena, L.
Castro-Machado, F.
Betti, P.
author_facet Álvarez-Colombo, G.L.
Dato, C.V.
Machinandiarena, L.
Castro-Machado, F.
Betti, P.
author_sort Álvarez-Colombo, G.L.
title Daylight vertical segregation of young-of-the-year Argentine hake Merluccius hubbsi: Advances in assessment of juvenile abundance with acoustic methods
title_short Daylight vertical segregation of young-of-the-year Argentine hake Merluccius hubbsi: Advances in assessment of juvenile abundance with acoustic methods
title_full Daylight vertical segregation of young-of-the-year Argentine hake Merluccius hubbsi: Advances in assessment of juvenile abundance with acoustic methods
title_fullStr Daylight vertical segregation of young-of-the-year Argentine hake Merluccius hubbsi: Advances in assessment of juvenile abundance with acoustic methods
title_full_unstemmed Daylight vertical segregation of young-of-the-year Argentine hake Merluccius hubbsi: Advances in assessment of juvenile abundance with acoustic methods
title_sort daylight vertical segregation of young-of-the-year argentine hake merluccius hubbsi: advances in assessment of juvenile abundance with acoustic methods
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_01657836_v160_n_p85_AlvarezColombo
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