FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Modeling Fish Egg Production and Spatial Distribution from Acoustic Data: A Step Forward into the Analysis of Recruitment BT AF OSPINA-ALVAREZ, Andres BERNAL, Miguel ALBERTO CATALAN, Ignacio ROOS, David BIGOT, Jean-Louis PALOMERA, Isabel AS 1:1;2:1;3:2;4:3;5:3;6:1; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:PDG-RBE-DOI;5:PDG-RBE-HM-RHSETE;6:; C1 CSIC, Dept Renewable Marine Resources, Inst Marine Sci, ICM, Barcelona, Spain. UIB, IMEDEA CSIC, Mediterranean Inst Adv Studies, Dept Ecol & Marine Resources, Esporles, Balearic Island, Spain. IFREMER, Sete, France. C2 CSIC, SPAIN IMEDEA, SPAIN IFREMER, FRANCE SI LA REUNION SETE SE PDG-RBE-DOI PDG-RBE-HM-RHSETE IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 DOAJ copubli-europe IF 3.534 TC 15 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00160/27119/25312.pdf LA English DT Article CR PELMED 2003 PELMED 2004 PELMED 2005 PELMED 2006 PELMED 2007 PELMED 2008 PELMED 2009 PELMED 2010 BO L'Europe AB To date, there are numerous transport simulation studies demonstrating the relevance of the hydrodynamics for the advection, dispersion and recruitment of early stages of marine organisms. However, the lack of data has conditioned the use of realistic locations for the model setup and configuration in transport studies. This work (I) demonstrates the key role played by the use of the realistic initial position of the eggs of small pelagic fishes in the analysis of late-larval recruitment in coastal nursery areas and (II) provides a general solution for deriving future egg positions and abundances from adult biomass obtained from acoustic surveys and available fecundity data. Using European anchovy in the NW Mediterranean as a case study, we first analyzed the impact of the initial location, timing, egg buoyancy and diel vertical migration of larvae on the potential late-larval recruitment to coastal areas. The results suggested that prior knowledge of the initial spawning grounds may substantially affect the estimates of potential recruitment. We then integrated biological and acoustics-derived data (the biomass and size structure, sex ratio, a weight-batch fecundity model, mean weight, number of fish and mean spawning) to build a predictive model for interannual egg production. This model was satisfactorily contrasted with field data for two years obtained with the Daily Egg Production Method (DEPM). We discuss our results in the context of the fluctuations of European anchovy egg abundance from 2003 through 2010 in the NW Mediterranean and in terms of the potential applicability of the acoustics-based spatial predictive egg production model. PY 2013 PD SEP SO Plos One SN 1932-6203 PU Public Library Science VL 8 IS 9 UT 000324494000045 DI 10.1371/journal.pone.0073687 ID 27119 ER EF