Impact of artificial patchy reef design on the ichthyofauna community of seasonally influenced shores at Southeastern Brazil

Gatts, Pedro Vianna; Franco, Marcos Alberto Lima; Santos, Luciano Neves dos; Rocha, Diogo Fonseca da; Sá, Fabrício de; Netto, Eurico; Machado, Phillipe Mota; Masi, Bruno Pereira; Zalmon, Ilana Rosental

doi:10.1007/s10452-015-9530-7

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“…Our findings corroborate with previous studies in Brazil (Rocha et al, 2015;Santos and Zalmon, 2015) and other countries (Lowry et al, 2014;Becker et al, 2017;Taylor et al, 2018), which demonstrate the effect of artificial structures on the composition and structure of fish assemblages.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Despite the gap in knowledge about the efficiency of these ARs for attracting species of commercial interest, previous studies in the region have suggested that the fish assemblages are affected by artificial structures, leading to increased abundance, species richness, and biomass over time, especially during the first six years after AR deployment (Zalmon et al, 2002;Brotto and Zalmon, 2008;Santos et al, 2011;Gatts et al, 2014;Santos and Zalmon, 2015). In addition, the attraction of invertebrates, retention of sediment, and seasonal inflows of freshwater and fluvial sediment may influence the temporal trends in fish assemblages associated with ARs (Rocha et al, 2014;Zalmon et al, 2014;Gatts et al, 2015;). Other studies have revealed that local fishermen regularly use ARs to capture specific target-species (Lima et al, 2018(Lima et al, , 2019b.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Could artificial reefs increase access to estuarine fishery resources? Insights from a long-term assessment

Lima¹,

Sánchez-Jérez

Santos

et al. 2020

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Could artificial reefs increase access to estuarine fishery resources? Insights from a long-term assessment

Lima¹,

Sánchez-Jérez

Santos

et al. 2020

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

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“…Further, the potential effects of high species turnover were diminished in our study by applying the approach of focusing most of our temporal analyses (except for DCA) on fish families and trophic guilds. Finally, recent studies performed on the same reefs and using the same fishing methods and efforts (Gatts et al, 2014(Gatts et al, , 2015 detected few or no differences in composition or structure of the associated fish assemblages by placing the reef balls individually or scattered (two to three modules together), setting them close (0.5 m) or apart (15 m) from each other, also highlighting the key role of seasonal variation of freshwater outflows and sediments from large rivers on fish colonization. Those complementary studies contribute more to support than to weaken our major hypothesis on the disruption of fish colonization and succession to artificial reefs as being caused by environmental disturbances.…”

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confidence: 77%

Long-term changes of fish assemblages associated with artificial reefs off the northern coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Santos

Zalmon

2015

J. Appl. Ichthyol.

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Summary Changes in fish assemblages associated with artificial reefs 5‐km offshore (Southeast Brazil) were assessed. Bottom gillnets were used for 1 month per year for up to 15 years after the artificial reef had been established. Totals of 552 fishes were caught, with Chloroscombrus chrysurus and Conodon nobilis the dominant species and Scianidae the richest family. Species richness, abundance and biomass varied significantly with time, increasing gradually for several years but decreasing thereafter. The same unimodal response was recorded for abundance and biomass of planktivorous and invertivorous fishes and for Haemulidae, suggesting that this family accounted for most of the temporal variations recorded per species richness and CPUE values. The abundance and biomass of sharks decreased gradually after the first year but increased in the 15th year. While these variables increased steadily toward an apparent stable level in the later part of the study for Scianidae and Ariidae, they decreased linearly with time for Carangidae. Fish use of the artificial reefs may be modulated by a continuous species turnover, since there was no single species recurring throughout the surveys. This study stresses the importance of long‐term assessments of artificial marine reefs in order to incorporate the effects of successional patterns of fish colonization into management actions.

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“…() reported that algae and sponge communities were still changing after 5 years on a Mediterranean artificial reef. Overlaying basic successional processes are seasonal effects in water temperature or turbidity, which adds further variability (Gatts et al., ; Relini, Torchia et al., ) which may be important in driving community structure.…”

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Managing the development of artificial reef systems: The need for quantitative goals

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Fisheries enhancement initiatives are a potentially useful tool for managers to supplement traditional approaches. Habitat‐based enhancements often deploy artificial reefs with the aim to increase the available structure to augment local production, yet current assessment approaches make it difficult to assess whether these reefs achieve pre‐deployment goals. This makes it hard for managers to determine whether artificial reefs could improve their fishery outputs, potentially leading to missed opportunities and reduced production. We reviewed 270 research articles to determine whether existing monitoring studies identify whether artificial reefs meet their pre‐deployment goals, thereby providing some evidence of their suitability for certain fisheries. We found only 62% of these studies clearly articulated the original goals of the reef. Goals were qualitative, and most studies were conducted over insufficient time frames to allow for ecological communities to stabilize and mature. It is therefore difficult to determine the success or failure of many artificial reefs in addressing the management issues for which they were deployed. In the light of these findings, we think the setting of explicit quantitative goals (which may be biological, social or economic), and monitoring the performance of reefs against these goals, could stimulate the broader application of artificial reefs in fisheries management strategies. Such an approach has been successfully adopted in aquaculture‐based fisheries enhancement, and we explain how current evaluation methods such as harvest strategies can be easily adapted to quantitatively monitor artificial reef performance.

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Impact of artificial patchy reef design on the ichthyofauna community of seasonally influenced shores at Southeastern Brazil

Cited by 9 publications

References 40 publications

Could artificial reefs increase access to estuarine fishery resources? Insights from a long-term assessment

Could artificial reefs increase access to estuarine fishery resources? Insights from a long-term assessment

Long-term changes of fish assemblages associated with artificial reefs off the northern coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Managing the development of artificial reef systems: The need for quantitative goals

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