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Finding shrimp under low-oxygen conditions

  • August 8, 2022
  • Quentin Bates
  • Dato: 08/08/2022
  • kl. 07:26
  • Kategori: Environment, Fisheries Management, Fishing, Research
  • Tags: Gulf of Mexico, Shrimp
  • Land: USA

ANNONCER

As seasonal hypoxic conditions in the Gulf of Mexico force shrimp stocks to relocate, scientists from NOAA and North Carolina State University are trying to make these shrimp easier to find.

Shrimp are one of the most valuable fishery resources in the Gulf of Mexico, supporting important fisheries off Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, but that doesn’t mean that this is easy money.

Shrimpers face many challenges, such as rising fuel costs, growing shrimp imports, and changing climate. While brown shrimp and white shrimp are the most abundant species in the northwestern Gulf, shrimpers spend considerable effort trying to locate concentrations of shrimp.

Scientists at NOAA’s Southeast Fisheries Science Center and North Carolina State University are trying to take some of the guesswork out of finding shrimp. This is particularly important during seasonal low or no-oxygen conditions, called hypoxia, in the Gulf.

Shrimp supports important fisheries off Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. Image: NOAA Fisheries

Shrimp On the Move

The shrimp fishery peaks in the summertime—at approximately the same time when extensive hypoxia usually occurs in Louisiana coastal waters. This year, the area referred to as the dead zone is anticipated to be 5364 square miles.

Hypoxia tends to be most pronounced close to the seabed – presenting significant threats to marine life, particularly for bottom-hugging stocks such as shrimp.

At the same time, research has found that shrimp are highly mobile, often able to escape the low oxygen areas by moving to other habitats.

The question is, where are they going? With support from a grant from NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, the scientists developed species distribution models for each shrimp species.

The models were based on historic shrimp catch rates, shrimping effort, dissolved oxygen levels, and other environmental data collected from fishery surveys and other sources in the region. They then used a hypoxia forecast, which provided the spatial distribution of dissolved oxygen, to predict where shrimp are likely to be in early summer.

Last year, a larger than average Gulf hypoxia zone was measured. This map shows the location during 25-31 July 2021. Image: LUMCON/NOAA

The 2022 Shrimp Forecast

Based on data available in May, researchers predicted that brown shrimp would be more abundant offshore (in waters deeper than 20 metres) on the eastern and central Louisiana shelf. They would be more abundant inshore on the western Louisiana shelf close to the Texas border. White shrimp were forecasted to have higher abundance close to shore, particularly just off of Atchafalaya Bay in Louisiana. The forecast also highlighted how this year’s spatial distribution of shrimp is likely to deviate from historical averages.

This is the first attempt to use a near-term hypoxia forecast to anticipate the spatial distribution of a managed fishery resource in the Gulf of Mexico or elsewhere. While the effort is considered experimental at this point, scientists will continue refining the modelling for both shrimp and hypoxia.

They will also continue to partner with the fishing industry through the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council’s Shrimp Advisory Panel to provide the most effective product. Even so, near-term forecasts (months ahead) of where shrimp are most likely to occur are potentially useful for enabling more efficient fishing under changing environmental conditions, related reductions in overall by-catch, and strengthening ecosystem-based fishery management in the Gulf of Mexico.

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