Estimating reef fish discard mortality using surface and bottom tagging: effects of hook injury and barotrauma
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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.
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| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Estimating reef fish discard mortality using surface and bottom tagging: effects of hook injury and barotrauma |
| Series title | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences |
| DOI | 10.1139/cjfas-2013-0337 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Year Published | 2013 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | NRC Research Press |
| Contributing office(s) | Coop Res Unit Atlanta |
| Description | 7 p. |
| First page | 514 |
| Last page | 520 |
| Country | United States |
| State | North Carolina |
| Other Geospatial | Onslow Bay |
| Online Only (Y/N) | N |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |
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