Third Fish acoustic around Fernando de Noronha (FAROFA 1) survey, report and paper writing
UFRPE
01 Avril 2019 - 03 Mai 2019

part of Ecosystem Dynamics

Chefs de mission / chiefs scientist

Arnaud Bertrand

IRD

 

During this last secondment for Arnaud Bertrand and Jérémie Habasque, in interaction with the colleagues from the University Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE) and the University Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), we performed small scale at sea survey, finalised a series of deliverables and articles, advised students and planified the future of collaborations fostered by the Project PADDLE. Specifically the activities consisted in:

 

  • from April 10-22, third small scale survey (fish acoustic around Fernando de Noronha, Farofa https://doi.org/10.17600/18001381) in Fernando de Noronha, one of the pilot areas of the PADDLE project, to acquire information about the abiotic and biotic characterisation of the ecosystem close to the archipelago in relation with fishing activities. This survey organized with UFRPE (Paulo Travassos) was also used to acquire data for one thesis student (Julie Salvetat) and to train two master students to acoustic techniques (Christiano Lopes, Syumara Queiros) in order to map the distribution of fishes on the base of an innovative combinason of acoustic and video data (Tasks 2.3 and 2.3) ;

 

  • student technical support (Julie Salvetat, PhD; Leandro Nole Eduardo, PhD, Ramilla Assunção, PhD; Nathanael Dossa, PhD) and help for processing data collected in Brazilian waters (Tasks 2.3 and 2.4);

 

  • Participation to the PADDLE worshop: MSP in tropical Atlantic: governance dynamics International workshop, Recife, Brazil, UFPE, Feb. 4-5, 2019

 

  • Finalisation of the redaction of the Deliverable 2.1 (Report on tropical Atlantic marine ecosystem dynamics in the last decades)

 

- Writing publications:

  • Eduardo L.N., Bertrand A., Frédou T., Lira A.S., Lima R.S., Ferreira B.P., Ménard F., Lucena-Frédou F. 2020. Biodiversity, ecology, fisheries, and use and trade of Tetraodontiformes fishes reveal their socioecological significance along the tropical Brazilian continental shelf. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 30: 761-774. DOI: 10.1002/aqc.3278.

  • Salvetat J., Lebourges-Dhaussy A., Travassos P., Gastauer S., Roudaut G., Vargas G., Bertrand A. 2020. In situ target strength measurement of the black triggerfish Melichtys niger and the ocean triggerfish Canthidermis sufflamen. Marine and Freshwater Research. DOI: 10.1071/MF19153.

  • Melo D.C.M, Lira S.M.A., Moreira A.P.B., Freitas L., Lima C.A.D., Thompson F., Bertrand A., Silva A.C., Neumann-Leitão S. 2020. Genetic diversity and connectivity of Flaccisagitta enflata (Chaetognatha: Sagittidae) in the tropical Atlantic ocean (northeastern Brazil). PLoS ONE. 15(5): e0231574. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0231574

  • Melo C.C., Soares A., Pelage L., Eduardo L.N., Frédou T., Lira A.S., Ferreira B.P., Bertrand A., Lucena-Frédou F. 2020. Patterns of distribution and populational aspects of haemulidae species (actinopterygii: perciformes) along the tropical Brazilian continental shelf. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 35: 101226. DOI: 10.1016/j.rsma.2020.101226.

  • Assunção R.V., Costa da Silva A., Roy A., Bourles B., Silva C.H., Ternon J.F., Araujo M., Bertrand A. Re-submitted. 3D characterisation of the thermohaline structure in the southwestern tropical Atlantic derived from functional data analysis of in situ profiles (Assunção et al.) on the thermohaline structure. Progress in Oceanography

  • Dossa A.N., Costa da Silva A., Chaigneau A., Eldin G., Araujo M., Bertrand A. Under review. Western boundary circulation off Northeast Brazil. Progress in Oceanography.