Changes in the Structure of a Coastal Fish Assemblage Exploited by a Small Scale Gillnet Fishery During an El Niño–La Niña Event |
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| Authors: | E Godínez-Domínguez J Rojo-Vzquez V Galvn-Pia B Aguilar-Palomino |
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| Institution: | Centro de Ecología Costera, Centro Universitario de la Costa Sur, Universidad de Guadalajara, V.Gómez-Farias 82, San Patricio-Melaque, Jalisco, México, 48980 |
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| Abstract: | During 1998 an experimental gillnet fishing survey was carried out in a Mexican Central Pacific inshore zone. One-hundred and thirty fish species belonging to 51 families and 18 orders were identified. The most abundant species wereMicrolepidotus brevipinnis (29·0% of the total abundance) and Caranx caninus (19·2%), followed by C. caballus (6·3%), Kyphosus analogus (4·3%) and C. sexfasciatus (3·4%). Thermal SST anomalies showed the existence of two periods. The first, from January to April with positive anomalies, defines the end of an El Niño episode. The second period, from May to December, constitutes the beginning of the La Niña episode. The typical seasonality in a non-anomalous year continued for a large percentage of the inshore fish community, and the effects of the anomalous event consisted of changes in seasonality of occurrence in some individual species and the unusual abundance of some uncommon species. The species richness was higher during the El Niño–La Niña event than in a non-anomalous year, and therefore the event could be considered an interannual environmental mechanism that favours fish diversity in inshore waters. |
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| Keywords: | Mexican Central Pacific inshore fish assemblage El Niñ o ENSO small scale fisheries gillnet |
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