Reproductive biology of little tunny Euthynnus alletteratus (Rafinesque, 1810) in the southwest Gulf of Mexico

Author:

Cruz-Castán Roberto12,Meiners-Mandujano César2ORCID,Macías David3,Jiménez-Badillo Lourdes2ORCID,Curiel-Ramírez Sergio4

Affiliation:

1. Posgrado en Ecología y Pesquerías, Universidad Veracruzana, Boca del Río, Veracruz, Mexico

2. Instituto de Ciencias Marinas y Pesquerías, Universidad Veracruzana, Boca del Río, Veracruz, Mexico

3. Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Fuengirola, Malaga, Spain

4. Instituto de Investigaciones Oceanológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico

Abstract

The aim of this study was to describe the reproductive dynamic of Euthynnus alletteratus in the southwest Gulf of Mexico. The annual variation of the volume fraction occupied by gametes and tissues in gonads were related with main body indexes, such as the gonadosomatic index (IG), the hepatosomatic index (IH), and the nutrition index (IN), and compared with the sea surface temperature. A total of 951 E. alletteratus individuals were sampled, where a sex ratio of 1:1 and a size interval strongly skewed towards organisms with a fork length (LF) of 36–40 cm were observed. The IG showed an increase from March to September with maximum values in April and July. Two clearly defined peaks were observed, and they were consistent with the histological analysis, where the percentage of ripe gametes predominated from April to September. The optimum thermal window for reproductive activity was from 24 to 28 °C. The size of first sex maturity was 34.35 cm of LF for males and 34.60 (LF) for females, without significant difference between sexes.

Publisher

PeerJ

Subject

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine,General Neuroscience

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