Timothy Earl
Whale depredation in the South Georgia Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) fishery in the South Atlantic: a comparison of estimation methods.
Earl, Timothy; MacLeod, Eleanor; Söffker, Marta; Gasco, Nico; Massiot-Granier, Félix; Tixier, Paul; Darby, Christopher
Authors
Miss Eleanor MacLeod e.macleod6@rgu.ac.uk
Research Fellow
Marta Söffker
Nico Gasco
Félix Massiot-Granier
Paul Tixier
Christopher Darby
Abstract
Removal of fish from gear by marine predators, known as depredation, is a fishery dependent mortality that needs to be included in stock assessments for affected stocks to avoid misestimation of the assessed resource. Toothed whales engage regularly in depredation from longlines, and while in some regions they leave clearmarks of depredation activity, in the longline fisheries in the Southern Ocean they often leave no trace of removal, making it necessary to estimate depredation through modelling approaches. Several modelling approaches have been developed over the past decade in affected Southern Ocean fisheries, and in this paper, we examine five applications of common CPUEmodel structures to the same dataset from the longline fishery around South Georgia.We then compare the estimates of depredation with those based on observed bycatch ratios. The different model structures estimated very similar annual depredation removals, with all approaches averaging around 5% of the catch removed throughout the entire fishery.While depredation varies spatially, the different modelling approaches consistently highlighted areas where the impact of depredation was highest.
Citation
EARL, T., MACLEOD, E., SÖFFKER, M., GASCO, N., MASSIOT-GRANIER, F., TIXIER, P. and DARBY, C. 2021. Whale depredation in the South Georgia Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) fishery in the South Atlantic: a comparison of estimation methods. ICES journal of marine science [online], 78(10), pages 3817-3833. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsab212
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Oct 13, 2021 |
Online Publication Date | Nov 27, 2021 |
Publication Date | Dec 31, 2021 |
Deposit Date | Jun 7, 2024 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 7, 2024 |
Journal | ICES journal of marine science |
Print ISSN | 1054-3139 |
Electronic ISSN | 1095-9289 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 78 |
Issue | 10 |
Pages | 3817-3833 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsab212 |
Keywords | Depredation; Longline; Marine mammal; Modelling; Odontocete; South Atlantic; South Georgia |
Public URL | https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/2121410 |
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