Estimating reef fish discard mortality using surface and bottom tagging: effects of hook injury and barotrauma
Publication: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
18 December 2013
Abstract
We estimated survival rates of discarded black sea bass (Centropristis striata) in various release conditions using tag–recapture data. Fish were captured with traps and hook and line from waters 29–34 m deep off coastal North Carolina, USA, marked with internal anchor tags, and observed for release condition. Fish tagged on the bottom using SCUBA served as a control group. Relative return rates for trap-caught fish released at the surface versus bottom provided an estimated survival rate of 0.87 (95% credible interval 0.67–1.18) for surface-released fish. Adjusted for results from the underwater tagging experiment, fish with evidence of external barotrauma had a median survival rate of 0.91 (0.69–1.26) compared with 0.36 (0.17–0.67) for fish with hook trauma and 0.16 (0.08–0.30) for floating or presumably dead fish. Applying these condition-specific estimates of survival to non-tagging fishery data, we estimated a discard survival rate of 0.81 (0.62–1.11) for 11 hook and line data sets from waters 20–35 m deep and 0.86 (0.67–1.17) for 10 trap data sets from waters 11–29 m deep. The tag-return approach using a control group with no fishery-associated trauma represents a method to accurately estimate absolute discard survival of physoclistous reef species.
Résumé
Nous avons estimé les taux de survie de bars noirs (Centropristis striata) rejetés dans différentes conditions à l’aide de données de marquage–recapture. Les poissons ont été pris par piège et par ligne et hameçon à des profondeurs allant de 29 m à 34 m, au large de la Caroline du Nord (États-Unis) et marqués avec des étiquettes à ancrage internes, puis leur état après le lâcher a été observé. Des poissons marqués au fond à l’aide d’ARAP ont servi de groupe témoin. La comparaison des taux de retour relatifs des poissons pris par piège relâchés à la surface et au fond a donné un taux de survie estimé de 0,87 (95 %; intervalle de crédibilité : 0,67–1,18) pour les poissons relâchés à la surface. Une fois les données ajustées pour tenir compte des résultats de l’expérience de marquage sous-marin, les poissons présentant des signes de barotraumatisme avaient un taux de survie médian de 0,91 (0,69–1,26) comparativement à 0,36 (0,17–0,67) pour les poissons présentant des traumatismes associés aux hameçons et 0,16 (0,08–0,30) pour les poissons flottants/probablement morts. En appliquant ces estimations de la survie pour des conditions précises à des données sur des pêches sans marquage, nous avons estimé un taux de survie des poissons rejetés de 0,81 (0,62–1,11) pour 11 ensembles de données de pêche avec ligne et hameçon dans des eaux de 20 m à 35 m de profondeur, et de 0,86 (0,67–1,17) pour 10 ensembles de données de pêche au piège dans des eaux de 11 m à 29 m de profondeur. L’approche d’étiquetage-retour avec groupe témoin sans traumatisme associé à la pêche constitue une méthode permettant d’estimer avec exactitude les taux de survie absolus après rejet d’espèces de poissons récifaux physoclistes. [Traduit par la Rédaction]
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Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Volume 71 • Number 4 • April 2014
Pages: 514 - 520
Editor: Josef Michael Jech
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RudershausenP.J., BuckelJ.A., and HightowerJ.E.. 2014. Estimating reef fish discard mortality using surface and bottom tagging: effects of hook injury and barotrauma. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.
71(4): 514-520. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2013-0337
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