Marquages de Penaeus duorarum notialis en Côte d'Ivoire. 2 - Migrations et mortalités

Garcia, S. (1975) Marquages de Penaeus duorarum notialis en Côte d'Ivoire. 2 - Migrations et mortalités. Documents Scientifiques, Centre de Recherches Océanographiques, Abidjan, 6(1), pp. 21-44.

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Abstract

Petersen disc tag marking experiments confirm the influence of animal size and marking time on the recapture rate. Westward migrations occur, probably following the Ivorian undercurrent. Catchability coefficients have been evaluated for the Grand-Bassam fishing ground and tentatively extrapolated to the other fishing areas. The extrapolated non weighted coefficient for the entire fishing areas is q=0.00069/fishing day for an area of 390 miles. The instantaneous coefficient of residual mortality X taken as a first and possibly slightly overestimated value of M the natural mortality, has been estimated at 0.155/month, strongly corroborating Berry's results (1967). This value is however much smaller than that given by earlier authors. It is suggested that q could have a higher value during the very first weeks of exploitation at sea, when the juveniles are concentrated near the lagoon outlets.

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