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Long-term shifts in faunal assemblages in Eastern North
America
Introduction to the ERF Special Session SCI 050
Chairs: Rodney Rountree (Marine Technology and Ecology Applications, Inc.)
Francis Juanes (Dept. Natural Resources Conservation, UMass Amherst)
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Long-term Shifts in Faunal Assemblages in Narragansett
Bay, Rhode Island
With Joachim Gröger, Institute for Sea Fisheries, Hamburg, Germany
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Analysis Based on RIDEM Seasonal Trawl Survey
MassachusettsRhodeIs.
<20 ft
>20 ft
1300 tows 1979-2001
20 minutes at 2.5 knots
Two depth strata
effort proportional to strata area
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Benthic fishesPelagic fishes
79-8384-88
94-98 89-93
99-01
72%
15%
Assemblage shift in Narragansett Bay
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Narragansett Bay Trend Suggests Eutrophication Effects
But….
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… Similar Shifts have been observed on Georges Bank and attributed to fishing effects
M. Fogarty, NMFS, NEFSC
1963 1967 1971 1975 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003
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Pelagic B
iomass (M
illion MT
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other
groundfish
pelagic
elasmobranch
Shift between benthic and pelagic mid-1980’s
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Possible causes of observed assemblage shift
1) Regional warming and the invasion of warm water fishes such as scup
2) The release of limited food resources to transient species due to the decline of winter flounder
3) Overfishing of key species
4) Eutrophication
5) Habitat loss
6) Other human impacts (local and regional)
7) “Natural” cycles
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Normalized Mean CPUE in Narragansett Bay
Urophycis chuss
Declining
Urophycis regia
IncreasingNo change
Raja spp.
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No change Decline Increase
Number of species exhibiting significant temporal changes
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Can’t see the forest for the trees
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So look at how similar trees cluster together.
Cold water benthic –scavenger?
Pelagic - planktivores
increasing
Piscivores (benthic and pelagic)or warmwater demersal
Increasing/no change
Benthic feeding fishes – warm and cold decreasing
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Species type category
Species
Percent hauls Habitat Temp Exploited Feeding Spawning
Linear trend
P. americanus 84 benthic coldwater over benthic estuarine decline
S. aquosus 62 benthic temperate non benthic shelf decline
S. chrysops 49 demersal warmwater over benthic shelf increase
L. pealeii 48 pelagic temperate over zoo-plankton
shelf increase
H. americanus 48 benthic coldwater over benthic shelf increase
M. canis 5 benthic temperate non benthic estuarine none
Characterize 32 species type and annual trend
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Ben
thic
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civo
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Zoop
lank
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DeclineIncrease
NC
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Comparison of Temporal Trend by Food Type
Planktivores - tend to increase
Benthic feeders - tend to decline
Piscivores - increase or decline
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Co
ld
Te
mp
era
te
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rm
DeclineIncrease
NC
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Comparison of Temporal Trends by Temperature Preference
Cold water fish – tend to decline
Warm water fish – increase or decline
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Ben
thic
Dem
ersa
l
Pel
agic
DeclineIncrease
NC
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Comparison of Temporal Trend by Habitat Preference
Benthic fish – tend to decline
Demersal – no change or decline
Pelagic – tend to increase
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Freshwater spawner
Estuarine spawner
Shelf spawner
Under exploited
Over exploited
Demersal habitat
Pelagic habitat
Benthic habitat
Temperate
Warm water
Coldwater
Piscivore
Zooplanktivore
Benthic feeder
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ConclusionsMultivariate analysis of Narragansett Bay fish community change suggests:
Strongest patterns are related to trophic source
- fishes depending on benthos for food are most likely to decline
- fishes depending on plankton for food, or piscivores indirectly depending on plankton, tend to increase
Secondarily, estuarine spawning fishes tend to decline, while freshwater or shelf spawners are increasing or not changing
Thirdly, cold (northern) water fish tend to decline, while southern fish tend to increase
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Benoit and Swain. Gulf of St. Lawrence (Fish & Inverts)
Able and Sullivan. Little Egg Inlet, NJ (Ichthyoplankton)
Allen, Ogburn-Mathews and Tracy. North Inlet, SC (Zooplankton and nekton)
Mitchell, Buckel, Taylor, Bathand Shertzer. Beaufort Inlet, NC (Ichthyoplankton)
Keenan, Matheson, Switzer,Greenwood and McMichael. Tampa Bay, FL (Nekton)
Broad-scale Studies:
Hale. Coastal Delaware to Maine. (Benthic Inverts) *poster
Chmura, Van Guelpen and Pohle. Coastal marine Florida to Canada (Modeling)
Four Southern New England Studies:
Rountree and Juanes. Narragansett Bay (Fish)
Lynch and Lee. (poster) Narragansett Bay (Fish)
Danila and Landers. Millstone, Long Island Sound (Fish & inverts)
Whitlatch and Osman. Southern New England. (Benthic inverts)
O’Connor and Juanes. Hudson River (Fish) *Student
Chant. New York Bight (Oceanography)
Five Chesapeake Studies:
Ruck*, Kraus, Chris and Kelso. Potomac River. (Fish) *StudentAguilar, Hines, Kramer and Goodison. Rhode River, Upper Ches. (Fish)Wingate and Secor. Mesohaline Ches. (Fish) *PosterBreitburg and Cottingham. Chesapeake Bay. (Stressors)Kimmel and Newell. Ches. Bay. (Oysters) *Poster
Can we use similar methods to compare temporal patterns among a wide range of geographic areas and taxa to determine the most likely major causes of observed assemblage shifts?
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Acknowledgements
Woods Hole Sea Grant College Program for travel support
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Thank you!
Http://www.fishecology.org
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Spatial ComparisonMassachusettsRhode
Is. Mt. Hope Bay
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Mt. Hope Bay
Greenwich BayUpper Narragansett
Middle West PassageMiddle East PassageUpper SakonnetWest PassageEast PassageLower Sakonnet
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0
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1
1.5
No change trend
Mustelus canis
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050
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Increasing trend
Peprilus triacanthus
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Decreasing trend
Pseudopleuronectes americanus
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