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Even low levels of cannibalism can bias population estimates for Pacific hake
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2024
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Source: ICES Journal of Marine Science (2024)
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Journal Title:ICES Journal of Marine Science
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Description:By incorporating trophic interactions and temperature-dependent bioenergetics, multi-species models such as CEATTLE (climate-enhanced age-based model with temperature-specific trophic linkages and energetics) are a step towards ecosystem-based stock assessment and management of high-value commercial species such as Pacific hake (Merluccius productus). Hake are generalist predators and previous studies in the California Current Ecosystem have determined that their diet consists of ∼30% cannibalism. We used CEATTLE to include cannibalism in a model of hake population dynamics and re-examined hake diet data to determine the proportion by age that can attributed to cannibalism. The proportion was highly variable, ranging between 0 and 80% of stomach contents by weight. When included in the CEATTLE model, the estimated spawning biomass, total biomass, and recruitment increased by 15, 23, and 58%, on average, relative to the single-species model, due to the estimation of time- and age-varying predation mortality, primarily for age-1 hake. The effects of cannibalism varied over time, with further increases in total biomass and recruitment resulting from the age structure of the population following large cohorts in 1980 and 1984. Results from the cannibalism model could be used to inform the estimation of time- and age-varying mortality in the single-species assessment and as a pathway for including ecosystem information in management through environmental and trophic drivers of variability in mortality.
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Source:ICES Journal of Marine Science (2024)
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ISSN:1054-3139;1095-9289;
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