Using recreational tournament records to construct a 53-year time series of the Florida Keys recreational Bonefish fishery

Boucek, Ross E.; Rehage, Jennifer S.; Castillo, Nicholas A.; Dwoskin, Elijah; Lombardo, Steven M.; Santos, Rolando O.; Navarre, Carl; Larkin, Michael; Adams, Aaron J.

doi:10.1007/s10641-022-01299-5

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“…have proven useful in determining changes in shark sizes in the Gulf of Mexico (Powers et al 2013), weights of trophy-sized recreational species off California (Bellquist and Semmens 2016), and sizes of Bonefish Albula vulpes in the Florida Keys (Boucek et al 2023).…”

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“…2013), weights of trophy‐sized recreational species off California (Bellquist and Semmens 2016), and sizes of Bonefish Albula vulpes in the Florida Keys (Boucek et al. 2023).…”

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“…The costs and logistics of collecting fishery-independent data on pelagic marine species (Dennis et al 2015) provide additional justification for the use of sportfishing tournament data to help understand population-level processes. Tournament data have proven useful in tracking the sizes of fish in the Gulf of Mexico (Powers et al 2013) and Florida Keys (Boucek et al 2023). Research on changing fish sizes provides fishery managers with information on the effects of size-based regulations and can provide information on the effects of fishing or environmental phenomena.…”

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“…2013) and Florida Keys (Boucek et al. 2023). Research on changing fish sizes provides fishery managers with information on the effects of size‐based regulations and can provide information on the effects of fishing or environmental phenomena.…”

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Temporal changes in lengths of Dolphinfish revealed by sampling at sportfishing tournaments in the southeastern United States

Rudershausen,

Buckel,

Gregory

et al. 2024

N American J Fish Manag

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ObjectiveOur objective was to use sportfishing tournament data to determine whether sizes of Dolphinfish Coryphaena hippurus have been changing in the western North Atlantic (WNA) over recent decades.MethodsWe sampled North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida marine sportfishing tournament landings for Dolphinfish lengths. Linear models were separately fitted to length data for males and females by regressing length against year. A subset of these models (analysis of covariance) considered tournament as a factor.ResultAn analysis of covariance model with a separate regression slope for each tournament provided the best fit to the data for male and female Dolphinfish. Meaningful temporal declines in the length of males and females were found for four of the five tournaments (no changes in length were observed for the fifth tournament). Median total length declines of 168, 105, 103, and 426 mm were predicted for males, and declines of 354, 133, 131, and 246 mm were predicted for females. Declines in the largest observed sizes of Dolphinfish (97.5% confidence limit) were found for most tournament‐ and sex‐specific combinations of data and could suggest excess fishing mortality on the population.ConclusionDeclines in Dolphinfish size in the WNA region could have ramifications for conservation of the population given that these size changes translate into reduced individual fecundity of female Dolphinfish. Causes of the size decline could be fishing effects, environmental effects, or a combination of these. Reductions in individual size may be occurring simultaneously with declines in abundance identified in other recent research using fishery‐dependent data collected in the WNA.

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“…2013), weights of trophy‐sized recreational species off California (Bellquist and Semmens 2016), and sizes of Bonefish Albula vulpes in the Florida Keys (Boucek et al. 2023).…”

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Temporal changes in lengths of Dolphinfish revealed by sampling at sportfishing tournaments in the southeastern United States

Rudershausen,

Buckel,

Gregory

et al. 2024

N American J Fish Manag

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Stakeholder Engagement as a Core Component of Recreational Marine Fisheries Research, Education, and Conservation

Adams,

Boucek,

Lewis

et al. 2024

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Effective modern conservation depends on active stakeholder participation. Although stakeholder engagement is increasing, the extent of this engagement and the successful application of outcomes to science and management varies regionally and among types of fisheries. A collaborative model that emphasizes knowledge coproduction with stakeholders better identifies research needs and conservation threats, and influences research and policy outcomes. Stakeholder integration can be facilitated by nongovernment organizations, such as boundary organizations. Bonefish and Tarpon Trust is a science‐based, conservation organization founded in 1998 by recreational fishers and fishing guides that focuses on marine recreational fisheries in the Caribbean Sea and western North Atlantic Ocean. The Trust engages fishers directly, incorporating their knowledge and perspectives to identify conservation concerns, shape research, contribute to data collection, and disseminate information, and work with resource managers and scientific researchers to address conservation and management needs. This approach is demonstrated in case studies that show integration of recreational fishers in science, assessment of conservation threats, and application of findings to management for the recreational flats fishery in the Caribbean Sea and western North Atlantic Ocean, in the context of broader efforts of stakeholder collaboration toward actionable science to inform management.

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Viruses of Atlantic Bonefish (Albula vulpes) in Florida and the Caribbean show geographic patterns consistent with population declines

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Atlantic Bonefish ( Albula vulpes ) are economically important due to their popularity with recreational anglers. In the State of Florida, USA, bonefish population numbers declined by approximately 60% between the 1990s and 2015. Habitat loss, water quality impairment, chemical inputs, and other anthropogenic factors have been implicated as causes, but the role of pathogens has been largely overlooked, especially with respect to viruses. We used a metagenomic approach to identify and quantify viruses in the blood of 103 A. vulpes sampled throughout their Western Atlantic range, including populations in Florida that have experienced population declines and populations in Belize, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and The Bahamas that have remained apparently stable. We identified four viruses, all of which are members of families known to infect marine fishes ( Flaviviridae , Iflaviridae , Narnaviridae , and Nodaviridae ), but all of which were previously undescribed. Bonefish from Florida and Mexico had higher viral richness (numbers of distinct viruses per individual fish) than fish sampled from other areas, and bonefish from the Upper Florida Keys had the highest prevalence of viral infection (proportion of positive fish) than fish sampled from any other location. Bonefish from Florida also had markedly higher viral loads than fish sampled from any other area, both for a novel narnavirus and for all viruses combined. Bonefish viruses may be indicators of environmentally driven physiological and immunological compromise, causes of ill health, or both. Supplementary information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10641-022-01306-9.

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Using recreational tournament records to construct a 53-year time series of the Florida Keys recreational Bonefish fishery

Cited by 9 publications

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Temporal changes in lengths of Dolphinfish revealed by sampling at sportfishing tournaments in the southeastern United States

Temporal changes in lengths of Dolphinfish revealed by sampling at sportfishing tournaments in the southeastern United States

Stakeholder Engagement as a Core Component of Recreational Marine Fisheries Research, Education, and Conservation

Viruses of Atlantic Bonefish (Albula vulpes) in Florida and the Caribbean show geographic patterns consistent with population declines

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