Research Article

Keystone Porgy Species (Sparidae) Overcome the Alien Randall's Threadfin Bream (Nemipterus randalli) for Catch Balance in Space on An Oligotrophic Levant Shelf or Vice Versa?

Volume: 5 Number: 2 December 29, 2022
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Keystone Porgy Species (Sparidae) Overcome the Alien Randall's Threadfin Bream (Nemipterus randalli) for Catch Balance in Space on An Oligotrophic Levant Shelf or Vice Versa?

Abstract

Since 2008 spatiotemporal and ecological distributions of porgies (sparid, all indigenous fish) were examined in the presence or absence of Randall's threadfin bream, Nemipterus randalli in the present study area. Seasonal fish and environmental parameters samplings were conducted at three transects of the fishing (nMPA) or non-fishing (MPA) regions on an oligotrophic shelf (Levantine Sea) in 2014-2015 for understanding management and ecology of the porgies’ catches. Of 13 sparid fish determined during the present study, five species are rarely found. There were no seasonal significant differences in densities of the sparid fish with or without the alien nemipterid fish. However, there were differences in the densities by the bottom depths, the regions, and soft and hard bottoms vegetated by Caulerpa spp and meadow, respectively. Ecologically, fish assemblages and faunistic characters of the sparid fish were highly variable when excluding the N. randalli as highlighted and follows; i) seasonal variation occurred and ii) the depthwise community assemblages became irregular. N. randalli seemed to balance the sparid catch attributed to the biomass-abundance ratio in the ecosystem or vice versa in this trophically sensitive gulf (ultra-oligotrophic) of the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

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Supporting Institution

The Scientific Research Coordination Unit of Akdeniz University

Project Number

2014.01.0111.001

Thanks

The present study was funded by the Scientific Research Coordination Unit of Akdeniz University, within framework of a project, Project no: 2014.01.0111.001, principally coordinated by Erhan Mutlu. This study was a part of Ilaria de Meo’s MSc thesis co-supervised by Erhan Mutlu and Claudia Miglietta’s MSc thesis co-supervised by M. Cengiz Deval. We thank Ahmet Şahin, M. Tunca Olguner and Cansu Olguner, and crew of “R/V Akdeniz Su” for their helps on board.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Fisheries Management

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

December 29, 2022

Submission Date

August 22, 2022

Acceptance Date

October 11, 2022

Published in Issue

Year 2022 Volume: 5 Number: 2

APA
Mutlu, E., De Meo, I., Miglietta, C., & Deval, M. C. (2022). Keystone Porgy Species (Sparidae) Overcome the Alien Randall’s Threadfin Bream (Nemipterus randalli) for Catch Balance in Space on An Oligotrophic Levant Shelf or Vice Versa? Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Journal of Marine Sciences and Fisheries, 5(2), 119-142. https://doi.org/10.46384/jmsf.1159667
AMA
1.Mutlu E, De Meo I, Miglietta C, Deval MC. Keystone Porgy Species (Sparidae) Overcome the Alien Randall’s Threadfin Bream (Nemipterus randalli) for Catch Balance in Space on An Oligotrophic Levant Shelf or Vice Versa? JMSF. 2022;5(2):119-142. doi:10.46384/jmsf.1159667
Chicago
Mutlu, Erhan, Ilaria De Meo, Claudia Miglietta, and Mehmet Cengiz Deval. 2022. “Keystone Porgy Species (Sparidae) Overcome the Alien Randall’s Threadfin Bream (Nemipterus Randalli) for Catch Balance in Space on An Oligotrophic Levant Shelf or Vice Versa?”. Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Journal of Marine Sciences and Fisheries 5 (2): 119-42. https://doi.org/10.46384/jmsf.1159667.
EndNote
Mutlu E, De Meo I, Miglietta C, Deval MC (December 1, 2022) Keystone Porgy Species (Sparidae) Overcome the Alien Randall’s Threadfin Bream (Nemipterus randalli) for Catch Balance in Space on An Oligotrophic Levant Shelf or Vice Versa? Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Journal of Marine Sciences and Fisheries 5 2 119–142.
IEEE
[1]E. Mutlu, I. De Meo, C. Miglietta, and M. C. Deval, “Keystone Porgy Species (Sparidae) Overcome the Alien Randall’s Threadfin Bream (Nemipterus randalli) for Catch Balance in Space on An Oligotrophic Levant Shelf or Vice Versa?”, JMSF, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 119–142, Dec. 2022, doi: 10.46384/jmsf.1159667.
ISNAD
Mutlu, Erhan - De Meo, Ilaria - Miglietta, Claudia - Deval, Mehmet Cengiz. “Keystone Porgy Species (Sparidae) Overcome the Alien Randall’s Threadfin Bream (Nemipterus Randalli) for Catch Balance in Space on An Oligotrophic Levant Shelf or Vice Versa?”. Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Journal of Marine Sciences and Fisheries 5/2 (December 1, 2022): 119-142. https://doi.org/10.46384/jmsf.1159667.
JAMA
1.Mutlu E, De Meo I, Miglietta C, Deval MC. Keystone Porgy Species (Sparidae) Overcome the Alien Randall’s Threadfin Bream (Nemipterus randalli) for Catch Balance in Space on An Oligotrophic Levant Shelf or Vice Versa? JMSF. 2022;5:119–142.
MLA
Mutlu, Erhan, et al. “Keystone Porgy Species (Sparidae) Overcome the Alien Randall’s Threadfin Bream (Nemipterus Randalli) for Catch Balance in Space on An Oligotrophic Levant Shelf or Vice Versa?”. Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Journal of Marine Sciences and Fisheries, vol. 5, no. 2, Dec. 2022, pp. 119-42, doi:10.46384/jmsf.1159667.
Vancouver
1.Erhan Mutlu, Ilaria De Meo, Claudia Miglietta, Mehmet Cengiz Deval. Keystone Porgy Species (Sparidae) Overcome the Alien Randall’s Threadfin Bream (Nemipterus randalli) for Catch Balance in Space on An Oligotrophic Levant Shelf or Vice Versa? JMSF. 2022 Dec. 1;5(2):119-42. doi:10.46384/jmsf.1159667

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