Affiliation:
1. Facultad de Ciencias Marinas, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California México, Km 106, Carretera Tijuana-Ensenada Ensenada, Baja California, México
2. Instituto de investigaciones Oceanológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California México, Km 106, Carretera Tijuana-Ensenada Ensenada, Baja California, México
Abstract
Abstract
Santamaría-del-Ángel, E., Millán-Núñez, R., González-Silvera, A., Callejas-Jiménez, M., Cajal-Medrano, R., and Galindo-Bect, M. S. 2011. The response of shrimp fisheries to climate variability off Baja California, México. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 68: 766–772. The effect of climate variability on the shrimp fishery in the upper Gulf of California and the west coast of southern Baja California was investigated using artisanal and industrial catches of blue shrimp (Litopenaeus stylirostris) and brown shrimp (Farfantepenaeus californiensis). Catch data were compared with the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) and remotely sensed environmental parameters, including sea surface temperature, chlorophyll a, coloured dissolved organic matter, and particulate organic carbon (Rrs412 and Rrs490). Overall, temperature was the best environmental indicator of commercial shrimp catches. Catches of blue shrimp varied directly and of brown shrimp indirectly with the SOI in their dominant areas, suggesting that the two species are influenced by El Niño conditions in different ways.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Ecology,Aquatic Science,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics,Oceanography
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