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Atlantic Cod Growth History in Flemish Cap Between 1981 and 2016: The Impact of Fishing and Climate on Growth Performance
- Source :
- Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname, e-IEO. Repositorio Institucional Digital de Acceso Abierto del Instituto Español de Oceanografía
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo, 2022.
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Abstract
- 15 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables.-- This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY)<br />Flemish Cap cod collapsed in the early 90’s after facing multiple threats due to climate variability and anthropogenic pressures. A master 35-year cod growth chronology was reconstructed in the present study by using sclerochronology techniques. Three additional chronologies were developed to account for the age-dependent effect of maturity and fishing intensity on growth. All chronologies showed that cod growth has decreased over the years and it is currently at the minimum level in the historic of data series. Hierarchical mixed-effects models were applied to the master chronology to identify extrinsic drivers of growth. The master chronology was divided into 3 periods: Premoratorium (1988-1998), Moratorium (1999-2009), and Postmoratorium (2010-2019). Our results showed that drivers of cod growth in the Flemish Cap varied between periods (Premoratorium: bottom temperature and fishing mortality, Moratorium: cod and pandalus abundance, and Postmoratorium: cod abundance and thickness of the cold intermediate layer). Our results suggest that density-dependence processes, food availability, and global warming may be behind the lack of recovery of the Flemish Cap cod stock. The Flemish Cap cod growth chronology shows variations on growth over time and identifies its drivers, having the potential to be included in the NAFO stock assessments or to be used to set dynamic reference points that guarantees the stock sustainability<br />The samples analyzed in this study were collected during the Flemish Cap survey that are co-funded by the European Union through the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) within the National Program of collection, management and use of data in the fisheries sector and support for scientific advice regarding the Common Fisheries Policy
- Subjects :
- fishing-induced evolution
Global and Planetary Change
mixed-effects modeling
life-history
growth
Ocean Engineering
Aquatic Science
Oceanography
Otoliths
climate change
Sclerochronology
Gadus morhua
Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo
sclerochronology
Climate change
Pesquerías
oceanography
climate
Cod fisheries
Water Science and Technology
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname, e-IEO. Repositorio Institucional Digital de Acceso Abierto del Instituto Español de Oceanografía
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9622d07719641e840f6c6ebf94101cd5