“Pelagic seascape ecology for operational fisheries oceanography: modelling and predicting spawning distribution of Atlantic bluefin tuna in Western Mediterranean” by Álvarez-Berastegui et al., published in ICES Journal of Marine Science
Diego Alvarez-Berastegui from SOCIB in collaboration with researchers from IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), IEO (COB) and the University of Oregon recently published a new study entitled “Pelagic seascape ecology for operational fisheries oceanography: modelling and predicting spawning distribution of Atlantic bluefin tuna in Western Mediterranean”. This paper proposes a new predictive tool for the location of Bluefin tuna spawning grounds in the Balearic Sea. This tool will help to improve the evaluation of the population status and its conservation.
The tool uses oceanographic data obtained from hydrodynamic models and from environmental satellites providing near-real time data of the oceanographic conditions. Mapping the spawning habitats of bluefin tuna has allowed improving the techniques currently applied for the evaluation of the population status, and opens new paths for the management of long migrating marine threatened species visiting this area of the Mediterranean.
- Reference: Alvarez-Berastegui, D., Hidalgo, M., Tugores, M. P., Reglero, P., Aparicio-González, A., Ciannelli, L., Juza, M., Mourre, B., Pascual, A. López-Jurado, J. L., García, A., Rodríguez, J. M., Tintoré, J., and Alemany, F. Pelagic seascape ecology for operational fisheries oceanography: modelling and predicting spawning distribution of Atlantic bluefin tuna in Western Mediterranean. ICES Journal of Marine Science, doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsw041.
