Evaluation of FAD-associated purse seine fishery reduction strategies for bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) in the Indian Ocean |
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Authors: | TONG Yuhe CHEN Xinjun XU Liuxiong CHEN Yong |
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Institution: | 1. College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China;Hainan Provincial Fisheries Research Institute, Haikou 570206, China 2. College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China;Key Laboratory of Sustainable Exploitation of Oceanic Fisheries, Ministry of Education, Shanghai 201306, China 3. Key Laboratory of Sustainable Exploitation of Oceanic Fisheries, Ministry of Education, Shanghai 201306, China;School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA |
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Abstract: | In the Indian Ocean, bigeye tuna supports one of the most important fisheries in the world. This fishery mainly consists of two components: longline and purse seine fisheries. Evidence of overfishing and stock depletion of bigeye tuna calls for an evaluation of alternative management strategies. Using an age-structured operating model, parameterized with the results derived in a recent stock assessment, we evaluated the effectiveness of applying constant fishing mortality (CF) and quasi-constant fishing mortality (QCF) strategies to reduce fishing effort of purse seining with fish aggregating devices (FADs) at different rates. Three different levels of productivity accounted for the uncertainty in our understanding of stock productivity. The study shows that the results of CF and QCF are similar. Average SSB and catch during simulation years would be higher if fishing mortality of FAD-associated purse seining was reduced rapidly. The banning or rapid reduction of purse seining with FAD resulted in a mean catch, and catch in the last simulation year, higher than that of the base case in which no change was made to the purse seine fishery. This could be caused by growth overfishing by purse seine fisheries with FADs according to the per-recruit analysis. These differences would be more obvious when stock productivity was low. Transferring efforts of FAD-associated purse seining to longline fisheries is also not feasible. Our study suggests that changes are necessary to improve the performance of the current management strategy. |
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Keywords: | Thunnus obesus purse seine fishing aggregating device simulation Indian Ocean |
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