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- Title
Evaluation of a fishing captain's ability to predict species composition, sizes, and quantities of tunas associated with drifting fish-aggregating devices in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
- Authors
Fuller, Daniel W.; Schaefer, Kurt M.
- Abstract
Experiments were conducted to evaluate a fishing captain's ability to predict species composition, sizes, and quantities of tunas associated with drifting fish-aggregating devices (FADs), before encirclement with a purse-seine net. Operating in the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean, during 11 May–23 July 2011, Captain Ricardo Diaz detected small quantities of bigeye (Thunnus obesus) and yellowfin (Thunnus albacares) tunas within large FAD-associated aggregations dominated by skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis). The captain's predictions were significantly related to the actual total catch and catch by species, but not to size categories by species. His predictions of species composition were most accurate when estimates of bigeye and yellowfin tuna were combined. If purse-seine captains are able to make accurate predictions of the proportion of bigeye and yellowfin tunas present in mixed-species aggregations associated with FADs, managers may wish to consider incentives to fishers to reduce the fishing mortality on those species.
- Subjects
BYCATCHES; TUNA fishery bycatches; BIGEYE tuna; PURSE seines; SKIPJACK tuna; SKIPJACK tuna fisheries; YELLOWFIN tuna; YELLOWFIN tuna fisheries
- Publication
ICES Journal of Marine Science / Journal du Conseil, 2014, Vol 71, Issue 7, p1774
- ISSN
1054-3139
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/icesjms/fsu012