Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Coastal Education and Research Foundation
Résumé : International audience
The ichthyofauna of the Manche-à-Eau mangrove lagoon was regularly sampled in 2002 with a fixed net at seven stations during 4 months corresponding to two hydrological seasons. Physicochemical variables (depth, temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, pH) and population descriptors (species and family richness, density and biomass) were measured. The Whitefield and the well-being indexes were calculated to appreciate species equilibrium. Canonical correspondence analysis and generalized linear models were used to link species assemblages to physicochemical variables and to search for a special link with salinity. A total of 30,733 individuals belonging to 34 species and 23 families were collected. The Gerreidae, Clupeidae, Engraulidae, Scianidae, and Sparidae represented almost 98% of the total number of individuals. Our results show that organization of the fish assemblages in the lagoon is poorly dependent on salinity, whereas dissolved oxygen, temperature, and pH could have a stronger role. Looking at response curves to salinity change, most fishes species appeared to be visitors, either temporarily present or regular migrators. Only a few species compose the year-round resident population. They have a high patrimonial value and could be considered bioindicator species for long-term studies (e.g., of global change and natural or anthropogenic disturbances). The Euclidean distance and biomass variables were not useful descriptors of confinement and biological zonation in the lagoon, whereas the negative gradient of specific richness, number of individuals, Whitefield index, and index of well-being better described confinement. On the basis of these last parameters, biological zonation in the Manche-à- Eau lagoon was established and is provided.
ISSN: 0749-0208

hal-00755285
https://hal.univ-antilles.fr/hal-00755285
DOI : 10.2112/06-0804.1

Éditeur(s) : ISTPM
Résumé : The foreign artisanal fishery of Pointe-Noire (Congo) significantly evolved since its beginning, in the 1950s, by the number of fishermen and canoes, as well as the fishing techniques used and by its socio-economic organization. The fishery for Sardinella by surface gill-nets, its main activity, is based on common ownership and savings, thus allowing partial reinvestment of fishing revenues, the riskier (such as bottom gill-net) being left to individual initiatives. The foreign fishery employs many Congolese fishermen, in a permanent or very occasional way. However no improvement effect seems to have taken place in favor of the local artisanal fishery.
La pêcherie artisanale étrangère de Pointe-Noire, dite « béninoise », a significativement évolué depuis ses débuts, dans les années 1950, tant par ses effectifs en hommes et en pirogues, que par les moyens techniques et socio-économiques mis en oeuvre. La pêche de la sardinelle au filet maillant de surface, qui en est l'activité principale, repose sur la propriété et l'épargne collectives, qui assurent le réinvestissement partiel des revenus, les pêches où les risques sont plus élevés (filet dormant de fond) ne sont pratiquées qu'à titre individuel. Outre son rôle essentiel d'approvisionnement en poisson de la région de Pointe-Noire et les emplois indirects qu'elle crée, la pêcherie béninoise emploie de nombreux pêcheurs congolais, de façon permanente ou très occasionnelle ; cependant, aucun effet d'entraînement ne semble s'être produit au profit de la pêche artisanale locale.
Revue des Travaux de l'Institut des Pêches Maritimes (0035-2276) (ISTPM), 1983-12 , Vol. 47 , N. 3-4 , P. 251-260

Droits : Ifremer
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/1983/publication-1829.pdf
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/1829/

Éditeur(s) : Wiley / Blackwell
Résumé : Six cohorts of the silver-stripe round herring Spratelloides gracilis, a fast-growing and short-lived tropical clupeid, were collected as juveniles and then as adults during austral summers from November to February in 1998–1999 and 1999–2000, using light traps in the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia. Otolith analysis allowed backcalculation of size and growth rate at age to examine the relative influences of selective mortality and water temperature on early growth. Negative sizeselective mortality and growth-selective mortality between the juvenile and the adult stages was found only in the cohort that was the smallest and slowest growing in the period immediately following hatching. Selective mortality preferentially removed members of this cohort that were smaller from age 0 to 15 days, and slower growing from 0 to 10 days, resulting in an elevation of size at age to, or even above, that of cohorts that had not undergone this process. Size and growth rate at 5 day age intervals in the first 20 days after hatching differed among cohorts within and between summers and were strongly and positively correlated (r2= 0·61–0·83) with water temperature.
Journal of Fish Biology (0022-1112) (Wiley / Blackwell), 2009-03 , Vol. 74 , N. 4 , P. 921-938

Droits : 2010 The Fisheries Society of the British Isles, Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00008/11940/8643.pdf
DOI:10.1111/j.1095-8649.2009.02179.x
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00008/11940/