Sediment and the distribution of penaeid shrimp in the Sudanese Red Sea

Branford, J.R.

doi:10.1016/s0302-3524(81)80032-1

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“…Seasonal fluctuations in the abundance of penaeid shrimps have been ascribed to water temperature and salinity oscillations (SIGNORET, 1974;PÉREZ-CASTAÑEDA;DEFEO, 2001;LOEBMANN;VIEIRA, 2006;LUCHMANN et al, 2008), texture of sediment (BRANFORD, 1981) and life cycle of species (MELLO, 1973;FORBES;CYRUS, 1991;NAKAGAKI et al, 1995;PÉREZ-CASTAÑEDA;DEFEO, 2005).…”

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Ten-year variations in population structure of pink-shrimp in a southwestern Atlantic Bay affected by highway construction

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OBJECTIVES: Population structures of Farfantepenaeus brasiliensis and F. paulensis, consisting mainly of juveniles, were evaluated during the construction of an expressway along a mangrove area. Estuarine regions in southern Brazil function as sites for reproduction, nursery and growth of a variety of organisms, including two of the most important species of shrimp for fisheries in the southwestern Atlantic. Shrimps were collected in Saco dos Limões creek, Baía-Sul, Florianópolis, State of Santa Catarina, four times a year, by day and night, between 1997 and 2006. Fluctuations in the abundances of shrimp appear to be related to their life cycles, with largest abundances in Summer and Spring, rather than to impacts promoted by dredging activities during the expressway construction.

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Ten-year variations in population structure of pink-shrimp in a southwestern Atlantic Bay affected by highway construction

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“…Hall and Penn (1979) reported that Melicertus latisulcatus was collected over silica sand sediments (also Gribble, unpublished data). Branford (1981) in a study of commercial shrimp in the Sudanese Red Sea found Melicertus latisulcatus were associated with sediment with a high content of "fine fraction" (<125 m, as a mixture of fine sand, silt, and clay), and by inference from the author's figures, from areas with a higher quartz content.…”

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“…All fractions were dried and weighed. All fractions greater than 0.5 mm in diameter from the 49 dredge samples were examined using a binocular microscope and visual estimates were made of the composition of the sediment by facies type (after Branford, 1981). …”

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“…Although habitat zones A and B showed no significant difference in particle size distribution, the sharp increase in carbonate at the border between the habitat zones reflects the different origins of the sediments and allows them to be distinguished on this basis. Carbonate content of sediments has been shown to correlate with prawn biomass (Branford, 1981) so this is an important distinction to make in terms of commercial fisheries.…”

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Factors affecting the distribution of commercially exploited penaeid prawns (shrimp) (Decapod:Penaeidae) across the northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Gribble¹,

Wassenberg

Burridge

2007

Fisheries Research

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“…Grady (1971) found that the greatest catches of penaeid shrimps in the Gulf of Mexico were made over bottoms with fine substrata, either sand-silt or sand-silt-clay. Branford (1981) showed that P. semisulcatus did not have a clear preference for different sizes of sediment, and Moller & Jones (1975) found P. semisulcatus burrowing in a range of different sediment particle sizes. Penn (1981) explained variation in abundance of P. esculentus-a species closely related to P. semisulcatus-in Australia as probably being due to depth variation.…”

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Juvenile Penaeid Shrimp Density, Spatial Distribution and Size Composition in four adjacent habitats within a Mangrove-Fringed Bay on Inhaca Island, Mozambique

Macia¹

2007

West Ind. Oc. J Mar. Sci.

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Abstract-The effects of habitat characteristics (mangrove creek, sandflat, mudflat and seagrass meadow) water salinity, temperature, and depth on the density, spatial distribution and size distribution of juveniles of five commercially important penaied shrimp species (Metapenaus monoceros, M. stebbingi, Fenneropenaeus indicus, Penaeus japonicus and P. semisulcatus) were investigated during a high shrimp recruitment peak lasting from January to June 2002, in four contiguous habitats within a non-estuarine mangrove bay at Saco da Inhaca, Inhaca Island, Southern Mozambique. A total of 14,976 specimens representing the five species were collected by means of a 1m beam-trawl fitted with a 2 mm mesh net with a cod-end. Every two weeks corresponding with spring tides on three consecutive nights, three trawls of 50 meters each were carried out each night in each habitat at 1.40-2.15 a.m. after the daily spring tide high water peak. Species distributions among the four habitats during the six months sampled showed significant differences in habitat preference (p>0.001). Fenneropenaeus indicus, M. stebbingi and P. japonicus dominated the catches in sand flats with densities of 27 ± 0.94, 18 ± 0.98 and 7 ± 0.76 shrimp /50 m 2 , respectively. Metapenaeus monoceros dominated catches in mudflats at a density of 21 ± 0.78 /50 m 2 followed by M. stebbingi with 13±1.2 /50 m 2 . Penaeus semisulcatus was almost exclusively captured in seagrass meadows at densities of 8± 0.57 /50 m 2 . Only the Metapeneaus species showed a wide range of habitat utilization. The differences in habitat preference emphasises spatial partitioning between shrimps, reducing competition. Multiple linear regressions of juvenile shrimp densities for each species with water depth, salinity and temperature showed some significant effects. Fenneropenaeus indicus density showed a significant negative relationship with salinity and water depth and a positive relationship with temperature and turbidity. Metapenaeus stebbingi numbers showed a significant positive correlation with increasing salinity and temperature, but a negative one with depth. Penaeus japonicus numbers were significantly related to decreasing salinity and depth. Penaeus semisulcatus abundance was significantly related to decreasing temperature, and increasing turbidity and depth. More than 50% of the total shrimps captured had carapace length of ≤ 3 mm, substantiating the nursery function of the different habitats sampled in the study.

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Sediment and the distribution of penaeid shrimp in the Sudanese Red Sea

Cited by 25 publications

References 3 publications

Ten-year variations in population structure of pink-shrimp in a southwestern Atlantic Bay affected by highway construction

Ten-year variations in population structure of pink-shrimp in a southwestern Atlantic Bay affected by highway construction

Factors affecting the distribution of commercially exploited penaeid prawns (shrimp) (Decapod:Penaeidae) across the northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Juvenile Penaeid Shrimp Density, Spatial Distribution and Size Composition in four adjacent habitats within a Mangrove-Fringed Bay on Inhaca Island, Mozambique

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