CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 140Marine and fisheries researchIchthyology and Marine BiologyFish Ecology and Management Studies

Ocean scale hypoxia-based habitat compression of Atlantic istiophorid billfishes

Open access
PRINCE, ERIC D., LUO, JIANGANG, PHILLIP GOODYEAR, C., HOOLIHAN, JOHN P., SNODGRASS, DERKE, ORBESEN, ERIC S., SERAFY, JOSEPH E., ORTIZ, MAURICIO +1 more·2010·Fisheries Oceanography
DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2010.00556.x
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

Oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) below near‐surface optimums in the eastern tropical seas are among the largest contiguous areas of naturally occurring hypoxia in the world oceans, and are predicted to expand and shoal with global warming. In the eastern tropical Pacific (ETP), the surface mixed layer is defined by a shallow thermocline above a barrier of cold hypoxic water, where dissolved oxygen levels are ≤3.5 mL L−1. This thermocline (∼25–50 m) constitutes a lower hypoxic habitat boundary for high oxygen demand tropical pelagic billfish and tunas (i.e., habitat compression). To evaluate similar oceanographic conditions found in the eastern tropical Atlantic (ETA), we compared vertical habitat use of 32 sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) and 47 blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) monitored with pop‐up satellite archival tags in the ETA and western North Atlantic (WNA). Both species spent significantly greater proportions of their time in near‐surface waters when inside the ETA than when in the WNA. We contend that the near‐surface density of billfish and tunas increases as a consequence of the ETA OMZ, therefore increasing their vulnerability to overexploitation by surface gears. Because the ETA OMZ encompasses nearly all Atlantic equatorial waters, the potential impacts of overexploitation are a concern. Considering the obvious differences in catchability inside and outside the compression zones, it seems essential to standardize these catch rates separately to minimize inaccuraci…

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2010.00556.x

Cites

23 of 32 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

We couldn’t retrieve this paper’s full text, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Mixed layer depth can limit the vertical distribution of tuna and tuna-like species.

    “The mixed layer depth can limit the vertical distribution of tuna and tuna like species (Bernal et al., 2009;Prince et al., 2010), while the sea surface height anomaly (SSH) provides information on the open-ocean physical habitat of pelagic species.”

    From Global habitat preferences of commercially valuable tuna (2015) · cites this paper as Prince et al., 2010

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

2 of the 34 references couldn’t be matched to a known paper.

Research works printed but not linked: 16

  1. Antonov J.I., 2006, World Ocean Atlas 2005
  2. Bakun A., 1996, Patterns in the Ocean: Ocean Processes and Marine Populations Dynamics
  3. Brock V.E., 1959, The tuna resources in relation to oceanographic features, U.S. Fish Wildl. Ser. Circ., 65, 1
  4. Cushing D., 1969, Upwelling and fish production, FAO Fish. Tech. Paper, 84, 40
  5. 10.5194/bgd-6-5073-2009 · DOI
  6. Fonteneau A., 1997, Atlas of Tropical Tuna Fisheries. World Catches and Environment
  7. Garcia H.E., 2006, World Ocean Atlas 2005
  8. Gooding R.M., 1981, Respiration rates and low‐oxygen tolerance in skipjack tuna, Katsuwonus pelamis, Fish. Bull., 79, 31
  9. Hanamoto E., 1987, Effect of oceanographic environment on bigeye tuna distributions, Bull. Jpn. Soc. Fish. Oceanogr., 51, 203
  10. Hinton M.G., 1996, Standardizing catch and effort statistics using physiological, ecological, or behavioral constraints and environmental data, with an application to blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) catch and effort data from the Japanese longline fisheries in the Pacific, Bull. IATTC, 21, 171
  11. ICCAT (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas), 2004, Report of the second ICCAT billfish workshop, Col. Vol. Sci. Pap. ICCAT, 41, 587
  12. Ingham M.C., 1977, Oxycline characteristics and skipjack tuna distribution in the southeastern tropical Atlantic, Fish. Bull., 75, 857
  13. Locarnini R.A., 2006, World Ocean Atlas 2005
  14. Maunder M.N., 2006, Developing indices of abundance using habitat data in a statistical framework, Bull. Mar. Sci., 79, 545
  15. Murphy G.I., 1953, Experimental tuna purse seining in the Central Pacific, Com. Fish. Rev., 15, 1
  16. Post J.T., 1997, Field and laboratory observations on larval Atlantic sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) and swordfish (Xiphias gladius), Bull. Mar. Sci., 60, 1026

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Related

Authors
PRINCE, E. D., LUO, J., PHILLIP GOODYEAR, C., HOOLIHAN, J. P., SNODGRASS, D., ORBESEN, E. S., SERAFY, J. E., ORTIZ, M., & SCHIRRIPA, M. J.
Affiliations
  • NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Southeast Fisheries Science Center (US)
  • University of Miami (US)
Corresponding author
PRINCE, ERIC D.
ORCID
Venue
Fisheries Oceanography
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2010-10-14
Volume
19
Issue
6
Pages
448-462
ISSN
  • 1054-6006 (ISSN-L)
  • 1365-2419
DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2419.2010.00556.x
OpenAlex
W1565983504
Cited by
140
References
34
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 17 · 2013: 11 · 2012: 10
FWCI
8.34
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Fisheries Oceanography (publishedVersion)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Marine and fisheries research
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Fish Ecology and Management Studies
Keywords
ocean hypoxia, oxygen minimum zone, habitat compression, sailfish, blue marlin, eastern tropical Atlantic, western North Atlantic, vertical habitat use, catchability, overexploitation, stock assessment, global warming, thermocline

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review