FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Identifying partners at sea from joint movement metrics of pelagic pair trawlers BT AF Joo, Rocío Bez, Nicolas Etienne, Marie-Pierre Marin, Pablo Goascoz, Nicolas Roux, Jerome Mahévas, Stephanie AS 1:1,2,3;2:4;3:5;4:6;5:7;6:1;7:1; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:PDG-RBE-STH-LTBH;6:PDG-RBE-EMH;7:PDG-RBE-EMH; C1 IFREMER, Unité Ecologie et Modèles pour l’Halieutique, Centre Atlantique, Rue de l'Ile d'Yeu, BP 21105, 44311 Nantes Cedex 03, France Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA Global Fishing Watch, Research and Innovation Team, Washington, DC 20036, USA MARBEC, Univ Montpellier, IRD, Ifremer, CNRS, Sète, France Univ Rennes, Agrocampus Ouest, CNRS, IRMAR—UMR 6625, F-35000 Rennes, France Instituto del Mar del Perú (IMARPE), Chucuito, Callao, Peru IFREMER, Laboratoire de Technologie et de Biologie Halieutique, Station de Lorient, 8, rue François Toullec, 56100 Lorient, France C2 IFREMER, FRANCE UNIV FLORIDA, USA GLOBAL FISHING WATCH, USA IRD, FRANCE UNIV RENNES, FRANCE IMARPE, PERU IFREMER, FRANCE SI LORIENT NANTES SE PDG-RBE-STH-LTBH PDG-RBE-EMH UM MARBEC IN WOS Ifremer UPR WOS Cotutelle UMR copubli-france copubli-p187 copubli-univ-france copubli-int-hors-europe copubli-sud IF 3.906 TC 2 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00696/80778/84304.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;collective behaviour;dyadic joint movement metrics;fishing tactics;Gaussian mixture model;vessel monitoring system AB Here, we present an approach to identify partners at sea based on fishing track analysis, and describe this behaviour in several fleets: pelagic pair trawlers, large and small bottom otter trawlers, mid-water otter trawlers, all in the North-East Atlantic Ocean, anchovy purse-seiners in the South-East Pacific Ocean, and tuna purse-seiners in the western Indian Ocean. This type of behaviour is known to exist within pair trawlers, since these vessels are in pairs at least during their fishing operations. To identify partners at sea, we used a heuristic approach based on joint-movement metrics computed from vessel monitoring system data and Gaussian mixture models. The models were fitted to joint-movement metrics of the pelagic pair trawlers, and subsequently used to identify partners at sea in other fleets. We found partners at sea in all of the fleets except for the tuna purse-seiners. We then analysed the connections between vessels and identified exclusive partners. Exclusiveness was more common in pelagic pair trawlers and small bottom otter trawlers, with 82% and 74% of the vessels involved in partnerships having exclusive partners. This work shows that there are collective tactics at least at a pairwise level in diverse fisheries in the world. PY 2021 PD AUG SO Ices Journal Of Marine Science SN 1054-3139 PU Oxford University Press (OUP) VL 78 IS 5 UT 000696576500016 BP 1758 EP 1768 DI 10.1093/icesjms/fsab068 ID 80778 ER EF