VPA estimates of fishing mortality and exploited biomass from Sardinella aurita catch-at-length data in eastern Venezuela
In this study, length-frequency data on Spanish sardine (Sardinella aurita) from northeastern Venezuela were analyzed for the period 1967-1989. Average growth parameters for the von Bertalanffy equation were established as L sub( infinity )= 26.6 cm (TL) and K = 1.26 year super(-1). The number of recruits to the fishing area, estimated from length-structured Virtual Population Analysis, varied from <10 super(8) in the late 1960s to >10 super(9) at the end of the 1980s. Exploited biomass estimates for the same period varied from less than 20,000 t in the first year to more than 100,000 in 1989. Both recruitment and exploited biomass showed different seasonal patterns between 1976-1983 and 1984-1988. Despite some uncertainty regarding these estimates, it is considered that major population tendencies are adequately represented by this analysis
Main Authors: | Mendoza, J.J., Fréon, P., Guzmán, R. |
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Format: | article biblioteca |
Language: | English |
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1994
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Subjects: | Fisheries, Fishing mortality, Exploitation, Growth, Frequency analysis, Population dynamics, Biomass, Sardinella aurita, |
Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/25958 |
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