Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles
ORCID
0000-0002-4440-8767
ResearcherID
I-5396-2012
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Boletim do Instituto de Pesca
ISSN
1678-2305
Publication Date
5-20-2022
Keywords
Bigeye tuna, Bycatch, GLM, Selectivity, Yellowfin tuna
Abstract
The choice of bait is one of the fisheries tactics used to increase selectivity for particular target species. The performance of three bait types (mackerel, sardine, squid) was evaluated with a commercial vessel operating in the Equatorial Atlantic Ocean using the deep-set pelagic longline deployment method to target large yellowfin and bigeye tunas. The effect of different factors and covariates on the Capture per Effort Unit - CPUE was evaluated through Generalized Linear Models (GLM). In 121 experimental sets using three bait types, 2385 individuals of the two target species were captured, 1166 yellowfin tuna and 1219 bigeye tuna. The results suggest a preference between bait types for each target species, with the yellowfin tuna being mostly caught by the hooks using squid and bigeye tuna with fish bait mackerel. Stratifying the results for three depth ranges of the hooks, the combination of bait and depth for yellowfin tuna resulted in an increase of catch probability in the intermediary depth layer using mackerel. For bigeye tuna, using mackerel in the intermediary layer resulted in a reduction in the catch rate. Bycatch represented around 11.15% of total captures. These results will provide important information to choosing the most efficient bait for the pelagic longline fishing operation and will help future decisions of fisheries management.
DOI
10.20950/1678-2305/bip.2022.48.e678
Volume
48
Issue
[Special Edition]
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
NSUWorks Citation
Tiago Hilário Pedrosa Campello, Lucas Eduardo Comassetto, Humberto Gomes Hazin, Jose Carlos Pacheco Dos Santos, Dave Kerstetter, and Fábio Hissa Vieira Hazin. 2022. Comparative analysis of three bait types in deep-set pelagic longline gear in the Equatorial Atlantic Ocean .Boletim do Instituto de Pesca , ([Special Edition]) . https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/1254.
Comments
This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior – Brasil (CAPES) – Finance code 001. This article was extracted from the correspondent author´s Master’s Dissertation MS. Tiago Hilario Pedrosa Campello, available at the repository library of Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco – UFRPE.