Do climate and fishing influence size-based indicators of Celtic Sea fish community structure?

Blanchard, Julia L., Dulvy, Nicholas K., Jennings, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2390-7225, Ellis, James R., Pinnegar, John K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5061-9520, Tidd, Alex and Kell, Laurence T. (2005) Do climate and fishing influence size-based indicators of Celtic Sea fish community structure? ICES Journal of Marine Science, 62 (3). pp. 405-411. ISSN 1095-9289

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Abstract

Ecosystem-based management requires the development of indicators that allow anthropogenic impacts to be detected against the background of natural variation. Size-based community metrics are potentially useful indicators because of their theoretical foundation and practical utility. Temporal and spatial patterns in size-based community metrics for Celtic Sea fish are described and calculated using data from the English groundfish survey of the area (1987-2003). The results reveal that the size structure of the community has changed over time, and that a decrease in the relative abundance of larger fish was accompanied by an increase in smaller fish (4-25 g). Temporal analyses of the effects of fishing and climate variation suggest that fishing generally has had a stronger effect on size structure than changes in temperature. Therefore, size-based metrics respond clearly to the effects of fishing even in variable environments, reflecting the ubiquity of size-based processes in defining community structure and responses to mortality. Spatial analyses were inconclusive, probably owing to the limited area for which fishing effort, temperature, and survey data were all available.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Collaborative Centre for Sustainable Use of the Seas
Depositing User:	Rosie Cullington
Date Deposited:	27 May 2011 13:46
Last Modified:	13 Apr 2023 13:38
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/31538
DOI:	10.1016/j.icesjms.2005.01.006

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