Acoustic Telemetry Studies of Bonefish (Albula vulpes) Movement Around Andros Island, Bahamas:  Implications for Species Management

Haley, Vanessa

doi:10.25148/etd.fi09121603

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“…In that study, bonefish were acoustically tagged on the west side of Andros, within the natural channel that connects the east and west sides of Andros, and on the east side of Andros, with receivers placed within this same area. Results documented the movement of seven bonefish between tagging locations on the west side of Andros, and what at the time of the study was a purported spawning location on the east side of Andros (Haley, 2009). Since that work (Haley, 2009), the east Andros site addressed in this study has been confirmed as a PSA location following a protocol for establishing PSA sites (Adams et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 95%

“…The most important finding of this study is the significant expansion of the linkages documented between the PSA site on the east side of Andros and home ranges on the west side of Andros. The first study to track bonefish on Andros (Haley, 2009) acoustically tagged 25 bonefish and placed 27 receivers to examine purported bonefish spawning migration patterns. In that study, bonefish were acoustically tagged on the west side of Andros, within the natural channel that connects the east and west sides of Andros, and on the east side of Andros, with receivers placed within this same area.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Map showing the location of Andros, The Bahamas, the pre‐spawning aggregation site, the smalltooth sawfish receivers at which bonefish were detected (black circles with receiver numbers), locations of detections of bonefish on the west side of Andros by Haley (2009) (grey circles), and locations of acoustic receivers at which Haley (2009) did not detect tagged bonefish (white circles). The spatial extent of the sawfish receiver array used in this study extended from Receiver 911 on the north to the southernmost white circle.…”

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Bonefish (Albula vulpes) home range to spawning site linkages support a marine protected area designation

Adams

Lewis²,

Kroetz

et al. 2021

Aquatic Conservation

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A spatial approach to coastal management, such as marine protected areas, is being increasingly used to address biodiversity and fishery declines resulting from habitat loss, degradation, and overfishing. This approach is especially applicable in regions and fisheries that are data poor, and which often lack regulations and adequate capacity for enforcement. In data‐poor situations, species that have economic, cultural, and charismatic value can provide leverage for ecosystem protection. In this study, acoustic telemetry was used to confirm a pre‐spawning aggregation site, acting as critical information for protection of essential habitat for bonefish. Additionally, data sharing with an acoustic telemetry study on smalltooth sawfish (Pristis pectinata) documented linkages between the pre‐spawning aggregation site and bonefish home ranges ≥70 km distant, thus providing an estimate of the catchment area. These data provided post hoc support for a marine national park designated in 2002, and demonstrate that the park is of the appropriate spatial scale.

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Bonefish (Albula vulpes) home range to spawning site linkages support a marine protected area designation

Adams

Lewis²,

Kroetz

et al. 2021

Aquatic Conservation

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“…Juveniles (< 150 mm fork length (FL)), however, are conspicuously absent from these groups, and although the habitats they occupy are not well described, evidence suggests that juveniles utilize similarly unstructured, shallow, and sparsely vegetated soft‐bottom littoral zones, typically within lagoonal environments (Layman and Silliman ; Nero and Sealey ; Snodgrass et al ). While A. vulpes adults can display a high degree of site fidelity, they are also highly mobile, commonly undertaking tide‐related movements on the order of several kilometers (Humston et al ; Murchie et al ), and capable of traveling more than 100 km over a period of just a few days in spawning‐related migrations (Haley ; Danylchuk et al ). Given this mobility and apparent lack of structural association, and furthermore considering that the shallow littoral zones they frequent are susceptible to strong wave‐driven currents, A. vulpes presents a fine model species for examining the effects of flow on juvenile distributions.…”

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Wave and tide‐driven flow act on multiple scales to shape the distribution of a juvenile fish (Albula vulpes) in shallow nearshore habitats

Haak

Cowles

Danylchuk

2018

Limnology & Oceanography

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Environmental stress associated with incident flow is among the most fundamental physical factors structuring fish distributions. In shallow marine habitats, flow‐related stress arises through several distinct processes, yet their combined ramifications for habitat utilization by fishes are rarely evaluated concurrently. We used hydrodynamic models to resolve spatial and temporal variability in wave‐ and tide‐driven water velocities across the littoral zone of a subtropical island, and related these, along with other environmental predictors, to patterns in the abundance of a juvenile fish (Albula vulpes) as determined by 785 beach‐seine samples. Exerting universally negative effects on abundance, flow‐related predictors were among the most influential drivers of habitat use, particularly at landscape scales where contrasts were most apparent. Spatial gradients in the strength of wave‐induced and tide‐driven flow were pronounced and varied inversely across the study area, applying contradictory constraints on A. vulpes distributions and limiting juveniles to the small subset of habitats where near‐maximal wave and tide‐driven water velocities were mutually depressed over the long term. Meanwhile, within the few embayments where A. vulpes occurred with regularity, abundance was inversely related to short‐term fluctuations in wave‐driven water velocity, evidencing fine‐scale movements as fish presumably sought reduced rates of flow. Juveniles were consistently absent from the remaining majority of stations regardless of temporal variability, indicating that they were unable to exploit these areas even during periods of calm. Collectively, these observations are consistent with the hypothesis that spatial and temporal variability in incident flow act simultaneously at distinct scales to structure motile fish distributions.

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“…Off North Carolina, Hildebrand (1963) reported collecting 13 female ladyfish (630−730 mm SL) containing roe and seven males (565−620 mm SL) that were ripe or near ripe in October. Besides this information, there is no other available information on the reproduction biology of ladyfish, but tarpon and bonefish reproductive studies continue to be published (e.g., Crabtree et al, 1997a;Crabtree et al, 1997b;Ault et al, 2008;Haley, 2009). …”

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Is Today's Fisheries Research Driven by the Economic Value of a Species? A Case Study Using an Updated Review of Ladyfish (Elops saurus) Biology and Ecology

Levesque¹

2011

Reviews in Fisheries Science

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Understanding a species life history is fundamental for managing and conserving a population. Despite the importance of this type of information, research attention is often directed at species with the highest economic value. This funding approach is problematic for preserving diversity and rarely considers ecological systematic functions; it prevents resource agencies from allocating funds for studying lower-valued species. For example, the ladyfish (Elops saurus) is a valuable commercial and recreational species in Florida, but in comparison to tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) and bonefish (Albula vulpes), ladyfish have received less funding and research attention. To date, comparably little biological information and no recent reviews are available for ladyfish; research interest is almost non-existent. First, a new review of ladyfish information is provided, and second, statistical evidence is presented and discussed that suggests that there is more published information for tarpon and bonefish than ladyfish because their socio-ecological values are greater. This study's findings confirm that there are significantly more published articles on tarpon than ladyfish, and the number of articles on ladyfish has declined with time. The number of articles on tarpon and bonefish were positively correlated with time, while the number of articles on ladyfish was negatively correlated with time. Natural resource management is shifting from a sustainable yield to a sustainable ecosystem perspective. Given this shift in management approach, successful ecosystem management requires substantial biological information on a variety of species within a given system, regardless of their socio-economic status. It is important to understand that although some species have been ranked higher than others, in terms of economic importance, ecosystems are functioning systems that do not discriminate or have any jurisdictional boundaries.

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Acoustic Telemetry Studies of Bonefish (Albula vulpes) Movement Around Andros Island, Bahamas: Implications for Species Management

Cited by 3 publications

References 19 publications

Bonefish (Albula vulpes) home range to spawning site linkages support a marine protected area designation

Bonefish (Albula vulpes) home range to spawning site linkages support a marine protected area designation

Wave and tide‐driven flow act on multiple scales to shape the distribution of a juvenile fish (Albula vulpes) in shallow nearshore habitats

Is Today's Fisheries Research Driven by the Economic Value of a Species? A Case Study Using an Updated Review of Ladyfish (Elops saurus) Biology and Ecology

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