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Quintanilla JM, Borrego-Santos R, Malca E, Swalethorp R, Landry MR, Gerard T, Lamkin J, García A, Laiz-Carrión R. Maternal Effects and Trophodynamics Drive Interannual Larval Growth Variability of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna ( Thunnus thynnus) from the Gulf of Mexico. Animals (Basel) 2024; 14:1319. [PMID: 38731323 PMCID: PMC11083439 DOI: 10.3390/ani14091319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2024] [Revised: 04/19/2024] [Accepted: 04/24/2024] [Indexed: 05/13/2024] Open
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Two cohorts of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) larvae were sampled in 2017 and 2018 during the peak of spawning in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). We examined environmental variables, daily growth, otolith biometry and stable isotopes and found that the GOM18 cohort grew at faster rates, with larger and wider otoliths. Inter and intra-population analyses (deficient vs. optimal growth groups) were carried out for pre- and post-flexion developmental stages to determine maternal and trophodynamic influences on larval growth variability based on larval isotopic signatures, trophic niche sizes and their overlaps. For the pre-flexion stages in both years, the optimal growth groups had significantly lower δ15N, implying a direct relationship between growth potential and maternal inheritance. Optimal growth groups and stages for both years showed lower C:N ratios, reflecting a greater energy investment in growth. The results of this study illustrate the interannual transgenerational trophic plasticity of a spawning stock and its linkages to growth potential of their offsprings in the GOM.
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- José M. Quintanilla
- Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO-CSIC), Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga, 29640 Fuengirola, Spain; (R.B.-S.); (A.G.); (R.L.-C.)
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- Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO-CSIC), Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga, 29640 Fuengirola, Spain; (R.B.-S.); (A.G.); (R.L.-C.)
- Departamento de Biología Animal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, 29071 Málaga, Spain
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- Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33149, USA;
- NOAA Fisheries, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Miami, FL 33149, USA; (T.G.); (J.L.)
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- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; (R.S.); (M.R.L.)
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- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; (R.S.); (M.R.L.)
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- NOAA Fisheries, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Miami, FL 33149, USA; (T.G.); (J.L.)
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- NOAA Fisheries, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Miami, FL 33149, USA; (T.G.); (J.L.)
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- Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO-CSIC), Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga, 29640 Fuengirola, Spain; (R.B.-S.); (A.G.); (R.L.-C.)
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- Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO-CSIC), Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga, 29640 Fuengirola, Spain; (R.B.-S.); (A.G.); (R.L.-C.)
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Quintanilla JM, Malca E, Lamkin J, García A, Laiz-Carrión R. Evidence of isotopic maternal transmission influence on bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) larval growth. MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2023; 190:106112. [PMID: 37523845 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2023.106112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2023] [Revised: 07/18/2023] [Accepted: 07/21/2023] [Indexed: 08/02/2023]
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Pre-flexion stages of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) larvae were collected in 2014 during the peak of spawning in the two main spawning areas: Gulf of Mexico (GOM) and Mediterranean Sea (MED). We examined daily growth, otolith biometry, and stable isotopes and found that the GOM grew at a faster rate, had larger otoliths, wider daily increments, and significantly lower values of δ15N when compared to the MED. In addition, an intra-population comparative analysis between slow- and fast-growing individuals (deficient vs. optimal growth groups, respectively) showed that optimal growth groups had significantly lower δ15N within each spawning area, implying a direct relationship between growth potential, development, and maternal transmission of isotopic signatures. A third pre-flexion larval group that was aquaculture-reared also exhibited the same pattern to the wild larval groups. In addition, for the first time, we estimated the maternal trophic niches using models developed with field-captured pre-flexion larvae. The estimated maternal trophic niches for the GOM were narrower than the MED, implying differences in the maternal trophodynamics from each nursery area. Overall, the inter-population (GOM vs. MED) and intra-population growth groups (deficient vs. optimal) grew faster and had narrower maternal niches. This study shows the advantages that larval SIA research can aid in the understanding of the trophodynamics of their breeders by examining the trophic relationship of a spawning stock jointly with the development of growth potential in offspring within the same breeding season.
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- José M Quintanilla
- Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga, Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO-CSIC), Fuengirola, Málaga, Spain.
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- Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA; Southeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Miami, FL, USA
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- Southeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Miami, FL, USA
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- Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga, Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO-CSIC), Fuengirola, Málaga, Spain
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- Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga, Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO-CSIC), Fuengirola, Málaga, Spain
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Romo-Curiel AE, Ramírez-Mendoza Z, Fajardo-Yamamoto A, Ramírez-León MR, García-Aguilar MC, Herzka SZ, Pérez-Brunius P, Saldaña-Ruiz LE, Sheinbaum J, Kotzakoulakis K, Rodríguez-Outerelo J, Medrano F, Sosa-Nishizaki O. Assessing the exposure risk of large pelagic fish to oil spills scenarios in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2022; 176:113434. [PMID: 35183025 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2021] [Revised: 02/02/2022] [Accepted: 02/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Exposure risk is assessed based on modeling suitable habitat of large pelagic fish and oil spill scenarios originating at three wells located in the western GM's deep waters. Since the fate of the oil depends on the oceanographic conditions present during the accident, as well as the magnitude and duration of the spill, which are not known a priori, the scenarios used are a statistical representation of the area in which oil spilled from the well could be found, given all possible outcomes. The ecological vulnerability assessment identified a subset of bony fish with low-medium vulnerability and elasmobranchs with medium-high vulnerability. The oiling probability and exposure risk of both bony fish and elasmobranchs hotspots vary by well analyzed. Thus, these results provide essential information for a risk management plan for the assessed species and others with economic or conservation importance distributed in the GM and worldwide.
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- A E Romo-Curiel
- Departamento de Oceanografía Biológica, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Carretera Tijuana-Ensenada #3918, Zona Playitas, CP22860 Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico.
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- Departamento de Oceanografía Biológica, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Carretera Tijuana-Ensenada #3918, Zona Playitas, CP22860 Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico.
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- Departamento de Oceanografía Biológica, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Carretera Tijuana-Ensenada #3918, Zona Playitas, CP22860 Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico.
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- Departamento de Oceanografía Biológica, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Carretera Tijuana-Ensenada #3918, Zona Playitas, CP22860 Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico.
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- Departamento de Oceanografía Biológica, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Carretera Tijuana-Ensenada #3918, Zona Playitas, CP22860 Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico.
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- Departamento de Oceanografía Biológica, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Carretera Tijuana-Ensenada #3918, Zona Playitas, CP22860 Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico.
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- Departamento de Oceanografía Física, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Carretera Tijuana-Ensenada #3918, Zona Playitas, CP22860 Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico.
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- Departamento de Oceanografía Biológica, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Carretera Tijuana-Ensenada #3918, Zona Playitas, CP22860 Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico.
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- Departamento de Oceanografía Física, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Carretera Tijuana-Ensenada #3918, Zona Playitas, CP22860 Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico.
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- Departamento de Oceanografía Física, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Carretera Tijuana-Ensenada #3918, Zona Playitas, CP22860 Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico; Climate and Environment, SINTEF Ocean, Trindvegen 4, Trondheim, NO-7465, Norway..
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- Departamento de Oceanografía Física, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Carretera Tijuana-Ensenada #3918, Zona Playitas, CP22860 Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico.
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- Departamento de Telemática, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Carretera Tijuana-Ensenada #3918, Zona Playitas, CP22860 Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico..
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- Departamento de Oceanografía Biológica, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Carretera Tijuana-Ensenada #3918, Zona Playitas, CP22860 Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico.
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Le-Alvarado M, Romo-Curiel AE, Sosa-Nishizaki O, Hernández-Sánchez O, Barbero L, Herzka SZ. Yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) foraging habitat and trophic position in the Gulf of Mexico based on intrinsic isotope tracers. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0246082. [PMID: 33626056 PMCID: PMC7904200 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2020] [Accepted: 01/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Yellowfin tuna (YFT, Thunnus albacares) is a commercially important species targeted by fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico (GM). Previous studies suggest a high degree of residency in the northern GM, although part of the population performs movements to southern Mexican waters. Whether YFT caught in southern waters also exhibit residency or migrate to the northern gulf is currently uncertain, and little is known regarding their trophic ecology. The isotopic composition (bulk & amino acids) of YFT muscle and liver tissues were compared to a zooplankton-based synoptic isoscape from the entire GM to infer feeding areas and estimate Trophic Position (TP). The spatial distribution of δ15Nbulk and δ15NPhe values of zooplankton indicated two distinct isotopic baselines: one with higher values in the northern GM likely driven by denitrification over the continental shelf, and another in the central-southern gulf, where nitrogen fixation predominates. Based on the contribution of the two regional isotopic baselines to YFT tissues, broad feeding areas were inferred, with a greater contribution of the northern GM (over a one-year time scale by muscle), and to a lesser extent in the central-southern GM (over the ca. 6-month scale by liver). This was corroborated by similarities in δ15NPhe values between YFT and the northern GM. TP estimates were calculated based on stable isotope analysis of bulk (SIA) and compound-specific isotope analysis (CSIA-AA) of the canonical source and trophic amino acids. Mean TP based on SIA was 4.9 ± 1.0 and mean TP based on CSIA-A was 3.9 ± 0.2. YFT caught within the Mexican region seem to feed in northern and in central and southern GM, while feeding in the northern GM has a temporal component. Thus, management strategies need to consider that YFT caught in US and Mexican waters are a shared binational resource that exhibit feeding migrations within the GM.
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- Meliza Le-Alvarado
- Department of Biological Oceanography, Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE), Ensenada, Baja California, México
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- Department of Biological Oceanography, Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE), Ensenada, Baja California, México
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- Department of Biological Oceanography, Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE), Ensenada, Baja California, México
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- Department of Biological Oceanography, Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE), Ensenada, Baja California, México
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- Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS), NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Oceanography, Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE), Ensenada, Baja California, México
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Lee CS, Lutcavage ME, Chandler E, Madigan DJ, Cerrato RM, Fisher NS. Declining Mercury Concentrations in Bluefin Tuna Reflect Reduced Emissions to the North Atlantic Ocean. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2016; 50:12825-12830. [PMID: 27934271 PMCID: PMC5161346 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b04328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
Abstract
Tunas are apex predators in marine food webs that can accumulate mercury (Hg) to high concentrations and provide more Hg (∼40%) to the U.S population than any other source. We measured Hg concentrations in 1292 Atlantic bluefin tuna (ABFT, Thunnus thynnus) captured in the Northwest Atlantic from 2004 to 2012. ABFT Hg concentrations and variability increased nonlinearly with length, weight, and age, ranging from 0.25 to 3.15 mg kg-1, and declined significantly at a rate of 0.018 ± 0.003 mg kg-1 per year or 19% over an 8-year period from the 1990s to the early 2000s. Notably, this decrease parallels comparably reduced anthropogenic Hg emission rates in North America and North Atlantic atmospheric Hg0 concentrations during this period, suggesting that recent efforts to decrease atmospheric Hg loading have rapidly propagated up marine food webs to a commercially important species. This is the first evidence to suggest that emission reduction efforts have resulted in lower Hg concentrations in large, long-lived fish.
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- Cheng-Shiuan Lee
- School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-5000, United States
- Corresponding Author: . Phone: (929)-268-4338
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- Large Pelagics Research Center, School for the Environment, University of Massachusetts—Boston, Gloucester, Massachusetts 01931, United States
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- Large Pelagics Research Center, School for the Environment, University of Massachusetts—Boston, Gloucester, Massachusetts 01931, United States
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- Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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- School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-5000, United States
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- School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-5000, United States
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Olson RJ, Young JW, Ménard F, Potier M, Allain V, Goñi N, Logan JM, Galván-Magaña F. Bioenergetics, Trophic Ecology, and Niche Separation of Tunas. ADVANCES IN MARINE BIOLOGY 2016; 74:199-344. [PMID: 27573052 DOI: 10.1016/bs.amb.2016.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Tunas are highly specialized predators that have evolved numerous adaptations for a lifestyle that requires large amounts of energy consumption. Here we review our understanding of the bioenergetics and feeding dynamics of tunas on a global scale, with an emphasis on yellowfin, bigeye, skipjack, albacore, and Atlantic bluefin tunas. Food consumption balances bioenergetics expenditures for respiration, growth (including gonad production), specific dynamic action, egestion, and excretion. Tunas feed across the micronekton and some large zooplankton. Some tunas appear to time their life history to take advantage of ephemeral aggregations of crustacean, fish, and molluscan prey. Ontogenetic and spatial diet differences are substantial, and significant interdecadal changes in prey composition have been observed. Diet shifts from larger to smaller prey taxa highlight ecosystem-wide changes in prey availability and diversity and provide implications for changing bioenergetics requirements into the future. Where tunas overlap, we show evidence of niche separation between them; resources are divided largely by differences in diet percentages and size ranges of prey taxa. The lack of long-term data limits the ability to predict impacts of climate change on tuna feeding behaviour. We note the need for systematic collection of feeding data as part of routine monitoring of these species, and we highlight the advantages of using biochemical techniques for broad-scale analyses of trophic relations. We support the continued development of ecosystem models, which all too often lack the regional-specific trophic data needed to adequately investigate climate and fishing impacts.
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- R J Olson
- Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, La Jolla, CA, United States.
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- CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, Université de Toulon), Marseille, France
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- IRD, UMR MARBEC (IRD, UM, Ifremer, CNRS), Sète cedex, France
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- Pacific Community (SPC), Nouméa cedex, New Caledonia
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- AZTI-Tecnalia/Marine Research, Pasaia, Gipuzkoa, Spain
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- Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, New Bedford, MA, United States
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- Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico
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Deshpande AD, Dickhut RM, Dockum BW, Brill RW, Farrington C. Polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticides as intrinsic tracer tags of foraging grounds of bluefin tuna in the northwest Atlantic Ocean. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2016; 105:265-76. [PMID: 26895594 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.02.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2015] [Revised: 02/02/2016] [Accepted: 02/04/2016] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Researchers have utilized chemical fingerprints in the determination of habitat utilization and movements of the aquatic animals. In the present effort, we analyzed polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners and organochlorine pesticides in the samples of juvenile bluefin tuna caught offshore of Virginia, and in larger bluefin tuna from the Gulf of Maine and near Nova Scotia. For a given specimen, or a given location, PCB concentrations were highest, followed by DDTs, and chlordanes. Average contaminant concentrations from fish captured from the three locations were not significantly different; and PCBs, DDTs, and chlordanes correlated well with each other. Trans-nonachlor/PCB 153 ratios in bluefin tuna of eastern Atlantic (i.e., Mediterranean) origin are low compared to the corresponding ratios in fish in the western Atlantic. As the former migrate to the western Atlantic, these ratios gradually turnover due to the accumulation of biomass from forage contaminated with higher trans-nonachlor/PCB 153 ratio reflecting dissimilar use of chlordane pesticides on two sides of the Atlantic Ocean. The trans-nonachlor/PCB 153 ratio indicated that one juvenile bluefin tuna from offshore of Virginia and one large bluefin tuna from Gulf of Maine in the present study originated from foraging grounds in the Mediterranean Sea, and that they have made the trans-Atlantic migrations. The remaining individuals were determined to be either spawned in the Gulf of Mexico or the trans-nonachlor/PCB 153 ratio for the putative Mediterranean bluefin tuna was completely turned over to resemble the ratio characteristic to the western Atlantic. Based on the turnover time for trans-nonachlor/PCB 153 ratio previously determined, the residence time of juvenile bluefin tuna offshore Virginia was estimated to be at least 0.8 to 1.6years. A discriminant function analysis (DFA) plot of total PCB normalized signatures of PCB congeners showed three separate clusters, which suggested that bluefin tuna from offshore Virginia, Gulf of Maine, and Nova Scotia could have had extended residences and foraging within the areas of capture to be able to sustain the stable signatures of PCB congeners. The DFA cluster results supported the concept of metapopulation theory of spatial ecology comprising discrete aggregates of local populations of bluefin tuna where the desired prey species are likely to be abundant. Despite their highly migratory trait and endothermic advantage of foraging in broader and colder habitats, the movements and mixing across the aggregation ranges related to feeding did not appear to be extensive. Advancement in the understanding of bluefin tuna population dynamics beyond the coarse concept of trans-Atlantic migrations to the metapopulation hypothesis provides a novel exploratory tool in the stock assessment and resource management. As the chemical tracer tags are fortified naturally and document the time- and space-integrated foraging history, they promise to serve as the low-cost alternatives to the high-cost electronic data recording tags employed for addressing the migratory movements of bluefin tuna. Between the different potential chemical tracer tags, a distinct advantage of PCB/pesticide analysis over the otolith micro-constituent analysis is that the muscle tissue of a given individual bluefin tuna can be sampled repeatedly for PCB/pesticide analysis over different spatial and temporal scales in a non-lethal manner.
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- Ashok D Deshpande
- NOAA Fisheries, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, James J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory, Sandy Hook, NJ, United States.
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- Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States
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- NOAA Fisheries, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, James J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory, Sandy Hook, NJ, United States
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- NOAA Fisheries, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, James J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory, Sandy Hook, NJ, United States
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- NOAA Fisheries, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, James J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory, Sandy Hook, NJ, United States
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