Young-Of-The-Year Stone Crab (Genus Menippe) Recruitment in the Gulf of Mexico Off Florida: Key Shallow-Water Hotspots

Bert, Theresa M.; Crawford, Charles R.; Shea, Colin P.

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“…Management efforts could also target preservation of locations on the West Florida Shelf where fecundity and recruitment are observed to be elevated. For example, fecundity was 1.35 and 1.39 times higher in Pavilion Key and Tampa Bay, FL relative to Cedar Key (Crowley et al, 2019), where waters offshore of the Florida Everglades, Cedar Key, Tampa Bay, and Steinhatchee represents 75% of the state's stone crab recruitment over the last several decades (Bert et al, 2021). Due to the possible future habitat fragmentation the habitats located just west of Tampa bay would be good candidates for management or protection, as our model shows these habitats were always included in one of the largest stone crab communities and show increases in source index, regardless of the climate scenario.…”

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Climate Change Will Fragment Florida Stone Crab Communities

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Many marine species have been shown to be threatened by both ocean acidification and ocean warming which are reducing survival, altering behavior, and posing limits on physiology, especially during earlier life stages. The commercially important Florida stone crab, Menippe mercenaria, is one species that is affected by reduced seawater pH and elevated seawater temperatures. In this study, we determined the impacts of reduced pH and elevated temperature on the distribution of the stone crab larvae along the West Florida Shelf. To understand the dispersion of the larvae, we coupled the multi-scale ocean model SLIM with a larval dispersal model. We then conducted a connectivity study and evaluated the impacts of climate stressors by looking at four different scenarios which included models that represented the dispersion of stone crab larvae under: 1) present day conditions as modelled by SLIM for the temperature and NEMO-PISCES for the pH, 2) SSP1-2.6 scenario (-0.037 reduction in pH and +0.5°C compared to present-day conditions), 3) SSP2-4.5 scenario(-0.15 reduction in pH and +1.5°C) and 4) SSP5-8.5 scenario (-0.375 reduction in pH and +3.5°C). Our results show a clear impact of these climate change stressors on larval dispersal and on the subsequent stone crab distribution. Our results indicate that future climate change could result in stone crabs moving north or into deeper waters. We also observed an increase in the number of larvae settling in deeper waters (defined as the non-fishing zone in this study with depths exceeding 30 m) that are not typically part of the commercial fishing zone. The distance travelled by larvae, however, is likely to decrease, resulting in an increase of self-recruitment and decrease of the size of the sub-populations. A shift of the spawning period, to earlier in the spring, is also likely to occur. Our results suggest that habitats in the non-fishing zone cannot serve as a significant source of larvae for the habitats in the fishing zone (defined as water depth< 30 m) since there is very little exchange (< 5% of all exchanges) between the two zones. These results indicate that the stone crab populations in Florida may be susceptible to community fragmentation and that the management of the fishery should consider the potential impacts of future climate change scenarios.

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“…Additional information on the chemical reactions can be found in Feely et al (2009). Illustration by Samantha Stewart subtidal riprap; seagrass) along Florida's Gulf Coast, including lower Tampa Bay (Figure 3; Muller et al, 2011;Bert et al, 2021). Stone crabs have been overfished since 2000, with mean annual landings declining by about 30% since that time (Muller et al, 2011).…”

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HANDS-ON OCEANOGRAPHY • Do pH-Variable Habitats Provide Refuge for Stone Crabs from Coastal Acidification?

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This guided, inquiry-based, hands-on lesson uses data from a local monitoring station in Tampa Bay, Florida, to guide students toward understanding how coastal acidification may impact the reproductive success of the Florida stone crab, an important regional fishery. The objectives of the lesson are for students to: (1) determine how pH varies between different habitats, (2) determine how pH can affect the reproductive success of an important commercial fishery, the Florida stone crab, and (3) evaluate whether exposure to variable seawater pH results in greater reproductive success in stone crabs relative to individuals that are not exposed to pH variability.

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Habitat selection by post-settlement juvenile stone crabs (Menippe mercenaria) and predation risk in shallow near-shore habitats

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Roux-Osovitz

Goergen

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Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

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Young-Of-The-Year Stone Crab (Genus Menippe) Recruitment in the Gulf of Mexico Off Florida: Key Shallow-Water Hotspots

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Climate Change Will Fragment Florida Stone Crab Communities

Climate Change Will Fragment Florida Stone Crab Communities

HANDS-ON OCEANOGRAPHY • Do pH-Variable Habitats Provide Refuge for Stone Crabs from Coastal Acidification?

Habitat selection by post-settlement juvenile stone crabs (Menippe mercenaria) and predation risk in shallow near-shore habitats

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