Determinação da origem e conectividade da população da albacora laje, Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788) no atlântico equatorial

• Autor(a) principal: ROQUE, Pollyana Christine Gomes
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• 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/tede2/7102
• topic: Albacora; Albacora laje; Thunnus albacares; Origem; Conectividade; CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::RECURSOS PESQUEIROS E ENGENHARIA DE PESCA

The yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788), is a pelagic species of the Scombridae family that is distributed throughout the tropical and subtropical waters of the three oceans. Characterized by the yellow coloration of its fins and finlets, it is usually found close to the surface, in waters with high productivity and warm temperatures, being mainly targeted by pelagic longliners and purse seiners. The yellowfin tuna displays a marked migratory behavior, which hinders the understanding of their movements between spawning, nursery and feeding areas. In order to ensure the conservation of exploited populations, it is fundamental to determine the size distribution and length at age of the individuals caught. The use of trace elements in the analysis of the stock structure can assist in reconstructing the life history, origin and connectivity of various species. In the present study, in order to assess the degree of connectivity between the specimens caught in the eastern and western sides of the West and Central Equatorial Atlantic, the otoliths of 20 specimens with fork lengths (FL) ranging between 37 cm and 57 cm were analyzed. For this purpose, an ablation laser system coupled to a mass spectrometer through plasma induction (LA ICPMS) was used to measure the concentration of various trace elements: 7Li, 24Mg , 55Mn, 88Sr, 137Ba, 44Ca- from an average of five ablation points to the core of each randomly chosen otolith. A Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) and a Quadratic Discriminant Function Analysis (QDFA), along with univariate tests, were performed with the SYSTAT 13 software. The catch sites, which included the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago- SPSPA (10), the Gulf of Guinea (5) and Cape Verde (5), were discriminated with high accuracy, with a rate of 85% being correctly classified. The spatial comparison of trace elements suggests a significant variation between regions (p ≤ 0.05), with canonical scores equal to 0.172 in Brazil and 0.758 for Africa. The Wilk's Lambda test (0.386) was significant indicating that the concentration of the elements differed between the two regions showing that the individuals examined must have originated from chemically and/ or geographically distinct areas.