Growth Characteristics and Reproduction of Comber, &lt;I&gt;Serranus Cabrilla&lt;/I&gt; (Actinopterygii, Perciformes, Serranidae), in the Aegean Sea

Ilhan, Dilek; Akalın, Sencer; Tosunoğlu, Zafer; Özaydın, Okan

doi:10.3750/aip2010.40.1.07

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“…No specimens smaller than 12 cm were obtained, probably because smaller comber are found in shallow inshore habitats where trawling does not take place and due to gear selectivity causing lower catchability for small individuals. The largest specimen was 26.5 cm in TL, which is slightly larger than the one described for the Mediterranean Sea (22 cm fork length, Torcu-Koc et al 2004;Ilhan et al 2010) but smaller than that reported for the Eastern Atlantic in the 1980s and 1990s: 30 cm TL, southern Portuguese coast (Gonçalves et al 1997) and 36 cm TL, Cape Verde Islands (Magnusson & Magnusson 1987). Regarding the weight-length relationship, an isometric growth similar to what was reported from the Aegean Sea (Ilhan et al 2010) was found, in contrast to a tendency for negative allometric growth, more common in previous studies both in the Mediterranean (Politou & Papaconstantinou 1995;Torcu-Koc et al 2004) and the Atlantic (Magnusson & Magnusson 1987;Gonçalves et al 1997).…”

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“…It is a simultaneous hermaphroditic species that inhabits both sandy and rocky bottoms as well as Posidonia beds at depths up to 500 m (Tortonese 1986). Despite this wide distribution, the available biological information is restricted to the Eastern Mediterranean and Canary Islands, focusing on feeding habits (Tuset et al 1996;Türker-Cakir & Torcu-Koc 2002), growth (Tserpes & Tsimenides 2001;Torcu-Koc et al 2004;Ilhan et al 2010), reproduction (García-Diaz et al 1997) and otolith morphology (Tuset et al 2003). Regarding the fishery, the species is moderately commercially exploited in the Eastern Mediterranean (Ilhan et al 2010), being mainly caught as a bycatch species in trawls and trammel nets.…”

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“…Despite this wide distribution, the available biological information is restricted to the Eastern Mediterranean and Canary Islands, focusing on feeding habits (Tuset et al 1996;Türker-Cakir & Torcu-Koc 2002), growth (Tserpes & Tsimenides 2001;Torcu-Koc et al 2004;Ilhan et al 2010), reproduction (García-Diaz et al 1997) and otolith morphology (Tuset et al 2003). Regarding the fishery, the species is moderately commercially exploited in the Eastern Mediterranean (Ilhan et al 2010), being mainly caught as a bycatch species in trawls and trammel nets. In the Atlantic, no information on the exploitation pattern exists and on the Portuguese coast the species is an important bycatch in the trawl fishery, being discarded at sea or grouped in the 'diverse' category at Portuguese auctions (Sequeira et al 2015).…”

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“…Among the several studies focusing on species ageing (Bouain 1983;Tserpes & Tsimenides 2001;Torcu-Koc et al 2004;Ilhan et al 2010), most use whole otoliths, but no methodologies were ever applied to ensure accuracy and precision. The periodicity of annuli formation using marginal increment analysis (MIR) was only applied by Tserpes & Tsimenides (2001).…”

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Age, growth and mortality of the comber Serranus cabrilla (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Eastern Atlantic

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Neves

Vieira

et al. 2016

Marine Biology Research

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Comber is an important bycatch species in the trawl fishery both in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Age and growth studies have been restricted to the eastern Mediterranean and no methodologies were ever applied to ensure accuracy and precision. In this study a total of 471 otoliths from specimens ranging from 12 to 26 cm were used. Precision indices showed a high level of agreement between readers and no evidence of systematic disagreement was obtained. To estimate fish growth and due to the absence of individuals smaller than 12 cm, three approaches were used to estimate the von Bertalanffy growth parameters: whole otolith readings, back calculation and a combination of both methodologies. Akaike's information criterion suggests that the back calculation approach was the best one for describing comber growth: ]. Natural mortality estimates varied between M = 0.44 year −1 and M = 0.48 year −1 while estimates of the fishing mortality varied between 0.12 year −1 and 0.16 year −1 and the exploitation rate between 0.20 and 0.27. ARTICLE HISTORY

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confidence: 88%

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confidence: 98%

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confidence: 98%

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Age, growth and mortality of the comber Serranus cabrilla (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Eastern Atlantic

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Vieira

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“…Despite their importance in demersal communities and fisheries in the Mediterranean, these species have received relatively limited attention, with the information remaining fragmented in most cases, while very few studies cover the main traits of the life history of these species (C. cuculus: Colloca et al, 2003;S. cabrilla: Torku-Koc et al, 2004;İlhan et al, 2010).…”

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Biology and population dynamics of by-catch fish species of the bottom trawl fishery in the western Mediterranean

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The teleosts Chelidonichthys cuculus, Trigloporus lastoviza, Serranus cabrilla and Trachinus draco, are important by-catch species, in terms of landed biomass and commercial value, from the continental shelf bottom trawl fishery off the Balearic Islands (western Mediterranean). The main biological parameters of these species were calculated from monthly biological samplings, and were used along with three-year pseudo-cohorts (2008)(2009)(2010) obtained from monitoring on-board of the bottom trawl fleet, to assess their exploitation level through Virtual Population Analysis (VPA) and Yield per Recruit (Y/R) analysis. Time series of fishery independent indicators based on MEDITS surveys data such as the evolution of the abundance and biomass, the distribution range, and the Conservation Status of Fishb (CSFb), were also analyzed.All four species analyzed showed growth overfishing. The reductions of fishing effort required to reach the Y/R F0,1 reference point were lower, 66-73% depending on the species, to those reported for the target species M. merluccius (87%), but higher than that reported for M. surmuletus (53%), in the study area in the period 2000-2010. The abundance and biomass, and the distribution range did not show any trend for the period 2001-2011, whereas the CSFb showed signs of recovery that may be due to the displacement of the trawl fishing effort from the shelf to the slope during the last decade. Our results underline the necessity of incorporating monitoring and assessment of by-catch species in fisheries management, given that their populations can show more pronounced overexploitation than target ones.

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Threats posed by artisanal fisheries to the reproduction of coastal fish species in a Mediterranean marine protected area

Lloret

Muñoz

Casadevall

2012

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

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Growth Characteristics and Reproduction of Comber, <I>Serranus Cabrilla</I> (Actinopterygii, Perciformes, Serranidae), in the Aegean Sea

Cited by 13 publications

References 12 publications

Age, growth and mortality of the comber Serranus cabrilla (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Eastern Atlantic

Age, growth and mortality of the comber Serranus cabrilla (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Eastern Atlantic

Biology and population dynamics of by-catch fish species of the bottom trawl fishery in the western Mediterranean

Threats posed by artisanal fisheries to the reproduction of coastal fish species in a Mediterranean marine protected area

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