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Surf zone fish abundance and diversity at two sandy beaches separated by long rocky jetties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2012

Fábio Lameiro Rodrigues  and
João Paes Vieira
Fábio Lameiro Rodrigues*
Affiliation:
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Oceanografia Biológica—Laboratório de Ictiologia, Instituto de Oceanografia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG), Avenida Itália km 8, Caixa Postal 474, 96201-900 Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
João Paes Vieira
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Ictiologia, Instituto de Oceanografia, Fundação Universidade do Rio Grande (FURG)
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: F.L. Rodrigues, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Oceanografia Biológica—Laboratório de Ictiologia, Instituto de Oceanografia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG), Avenida Itália km 8, Caixa Postal 474, 96201-900 Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil email: oceanolameiro@yahoo.com.br
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Abstract

In this work, we evaluated the influence of long rocky jetties (~5 km) on fish abundance and diversity between sheltered and exposed marine sandy beaches. We also described and compared the fish community structure and investigated the relationships between environmental variables and fish assemblages. Fish were collected monthly with a beach seine net from May 2001 to May 2002 at the Cassino and Mar Grosso beaches. Twenty-nine taxa were caught and the fish assemblage showed similar composition between beaches (Sj = 62.1%; %Min = 52.3%), with 18 species in common. Most of the fish were juveniles, mainly young-of-the-year with sizes ≤60 mm total length. Eight species (Trachinotus marginatus, Mugil liza, Brevoortia pectinata, Menticirrhus littoralis, Menticirrhus americanus, Odontesthes argentinensis and Oncopterus darwinii) were the most abundant, accounting for 95.6% of the total catch. At both beaches, only T. marginatus, M. liza and M. littoralis were frequent and abundant, but with some differences in their relative abundance. The canonical correspondence analysis results showed that temperature had the highest correlation with fish abundance. Seasonal changes in fish assemblage structure were evident, with a greater species diversity and abundance in the spring and summer. The overall results indicate that the presence of jetties had no effect on fish assemblages of adjacent sandy beaches. Moreover, differences between beaches were related to some species abundance and not to differences in the number and composition of species between beaches.

Keywords

fish nurserieswave exposureman-made structuresbeach seine netmultivariate analysisfish assemblage
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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 93 , Issue 4 , June 2013 , pp. 867 - 875
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2012 

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