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Library Mud crab ecology encourages site-specific approaches to fishery management

Mud crab ecology encourages site-specific approaches to fishery management

Mud crab ecology encourages site-specific approaches to fishery management

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Date of publication
December 2012
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AGRIS:US201500199629
Pages
1-9

Little is known about the effects of mud crabs population patterns on their exploitation. We used complementary approaches (experimental, fisher-based) to investigate how small-scale variations in density, size and sex-ratio related to the ecology of S. serrata may impact fishing practices in New Caledonia. Crabs were measured/sexed across 9 stations in contrasted mangrove systems between 2007 and 2009. Stations were described and classified in different kinds of mangrove forests (coastal, riverine, and estuarine); vegetation cover was qualitatively described at station scale. Annual catch was used as an indicator of fishing pressure. Middle-scale environmental factors (oceanic influence, vegetation cover) had significant contributions to crab density (GLM, 84.8% of variance), crab size and sex-ratio (

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Dumas, P.
Léopold, M.
Frotté, L.
Peignon, C.

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