bioacoustics; cusk-eel; ecoacoustics; Ophidiidae; remote sensing; species distribution
Abstract :
[en] 1. Knowledge of the ecology, spatial distribution and conservation status of fish populations is achieved by fishery-dependent techniques, and by more recently developed non-invasive fishery-independent techniques. Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is a fishery-independent method that provides remote sensing of soniferous species, populations, communities and ecosystems by recording soundscapes and their components. 2. A case study is presented to demonstrate how PAM can contribute to a dynamic understanding of fish distribution, ecological preferences and conservation status. This case study refers to the cusk-eel Ophidion rochei (Ophidiiformes), a nocturnal, behaviourally cryptic, soniferous fish species, described as uncommon and rare in the scientific literature, and listed as Data Deficient in the IUCN Red List. 3. A systematized literature review was carried out using Ophidion+rochei as the search term, and by grouping records into two main categories: (i) traditional techniques (including all fishery-dependent techniques and underwater visual census); and (ii) PAM. 4. This review highlights how PAM has provided new sightings of O. rochei at a rate three times higher than all other monitoring techniques combined. In contrast with the knowledge achieved to date by fishery-dependent techniques, the reported acoustic mass phenomena indicate that this species can be very abundant. Ophidion rochei was found to inhabit a wide range of depths and ecosystems, at least throughout the Mediterranean basin. 5. This paper supports the urgency and the importance of relying on the integration of different fishery-independent techniques for multidisciplinary monitoring, in line with the Goal 14 requirements of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.
Research Center/Unit :
FOCUS - Freshwater and OCeanic science Unit of reSearch - ULiège AFFISH-RC - Applied and Fundamental FISH Research Center - ULiège
Disciplines :
Aquatic sciences & oceanology
Author, co-author :
Bolgan, Marta ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Biologie, Ecologie et Evolution > Morphologie fonctionnelle et évolutive ; Ocean Science Consulting Limited, Dunbar, UK
Parmentier, Eric ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Biologie, Ecologie et Evolution > Morphologie fonctionnelle et évolutive
Picciulin, Marta; CNR-National Research Council, ISMAR -Institute of Marine Sciences in Venice, Venice, Italy
Hadjioannou, Louis; CMMI -Cyprus Marine & Maritime Institute, Larnaca, Cyprus
Di Iorio, Lucia; Université de Perpignan ; UMR 5110, CNRS, CEFREM, Perpignan, France ; Chorus Institute, Grenoble, France
Language :
English
Title :
Use of passive acoustic monitoring to fill knowledge gaps of fish global conservation status
Publication date :
05 October 2023
Journal title :
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
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