Variaciones interanuales en las capturas de tiburones pelágicos en el

Pelagic migrating sharks are by-caught incidentally in longline fisheries. Some of these species have been catalogued as threatened or vulnerable by several Regional Fisheries Organizations and International Conservational NGOs. Alboran Sea is an important area for pelagic migrating sharks because i...

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Autores: Ceballos, Elvira, Báez, José Carlos, Meléndez-Vallejo, María José, Muñoz, P., Macías-López, Ángel David
Tipo de recurso: otro
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/326442
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/326442
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Pesquerías
Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga
Climate oscillations
Migratory species
Mediterranean Sea
Sharks
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Sumario:Pelagic migrating sharks are by-caught incidentally in longline fisheries. Some of these species have been catalogued as threatened or vulnerable by several Regional Fisheries Organizations and International Conservational NGOs. Alboran Sea is an important area for pelagic migrating sharks because it is the natural and unique communication way between the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. This area is considered by several authors as a hot-spot of Climate Oscillation, such as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the Arctic Oscillation (AO). In addition, Alboran Sea is an important fishing ground where the longline fisheries targeting swordfish operates. Recent studies concluded that historical landing of pelagic sharks from harbours of Alboran Sea and Balearic Sea were mediated for atmospheric oscillations. The main aim of the present study was to assess the effect of atmospheric oscillation on the Catch per Unit Effort (CPUE) of vulnerable sharks thresher shark, Alopias vulpinus (Bonnaterre, 1788) and shortfin mako, Isurus oxyrinchus (Rafinesque, 1810) by-caught in the traditional longline fisheries. The atmospheric oscillations tested in this study were the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the Arctic Oscillation (AO). We found a significant positive correlation between the NAO and AO indexes of the previous year to the CPUE tested.