A influência da temperatura da superfície do mar sobre a distribuição e abundância relativa da albacora bandolim (Thunnus obesus, Lowe 1839) no Atlântico Oeste Tropical

• Autor(a) principal: SOUSA NETO, Aprigio Marques de
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRPE
• Texto Completo: http://www.tede2.ufrpe.br:8080/tede2/handle/tede2/6231
• topic: Albacora bandolim; Variabilidade ambiental; Thunnus obesus; Environmental Variability; CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::RECURSOS PESQUEIROS E ENGENHARIA DE PESCA

In recent years, with the advent of global climate change, several studies have been developed in order to better understand the changes in the pelagic ocean environment and its effects on the main fishing resources explored in the three oceans. This present study was to evaluate the influences of environmental variability on the CPUE of bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) caught by Brazilian longline fleet in the period from 1978 to 2008. For this, we analyzed the data on settings, seasonality, fishing areas, effort, catch, time of immersion, number of hooks / Basket and fishing time, and some environmental data such as sea surface temperature (SST), the depth of the layer of mixture (PCM) and the rate of illumination of the moon (IIL). We performed a cluster analysis with the aim of categorizing the fishing effort associated with the catches of different species, then an analysis with generalized additive models (GAMS) in order to assess the relationship between these factors and the CPUE from big eye tuna. The results showed that as regards the variable latitude, the higher values of CPUE occurred around the equator. The case of the month on the CPUE index, we observed the highest values between October and April. Already the level of lunar illumination on the CPUE showed an increasing trend of the new moon to crescent. The SST showed a positive trend with higher values occurring between 26 and 30° C on CPUE. The effect of PCM, highest CPUEs occurred in areas where the thermocline is closer to the surface, between 40 and 70 m. In relation to the variable year, positive effects were only observed from 2000. These results are probably related to the reproductive activity of the specie, which is focused off the Brazilian coast for spawning.