Community size-spectra applied to recreational freshwater fisheries in Puerto Rican reservoirs

Murry, Brent A.; Olmeda, María de Lourdes; Lilyestrom, Craig; Adams, Daniel S.; Adase, Katherine; García‐Bermudez, Miguel

doi:10.1111/fme.12671

Title: Community size-spectra applied to recreational freshwater fisheries in Puerto Rican reservoirs

Journal Article · 30 November 2023 · Fisheries Management and Ecology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/fme.12671 · OSTI ID:2324031

^[1]; Olmeda, María de Lourdes ^[2]; Lilyestrom, Craig ^[3];

^[4]; Adase, Katherine ^[1]; García‐Bermudez, Miguel ^[5]

West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV (United States)
Puerto Rico Dept. of Natural and Environmental Resources, San Juan, PR (United States)
Pesca, Playa y Ambiente (Fish, Beach, and Environment), San Juan, PR (United States)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
US Fish and Wildlife Service, San Juan, PR (United States)

We developed a management framework based on community size-spectra (CSS) to establish targets to maximize desirable gamefish. We evaluated the influence of relative abundance of fish functional groups and watershed characteristics on the slope of the CSS or ecological efficiency. Both ecological efficiency and capacity were strongly influenced by relative abundance of fish functional groups and the degree of water level variation. Steeper slopes indicated overfished gamefish populations, whereas flatter slopes indicated systems dominated by undesirable invasive large-bodied low trophic position fish. We hypothesize that a desirable fishery would have a target range of CSS slopes that provides a deterministic community-based framework of predictable responses to environmental and food web changes that can be used to evaluate outcomes of management actions and a means to assess annual progress toward desirable conditions.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 2324031

Journal Information:: Fisheries Management and Ecology, Journal Name: Fisheries Management and Ecology Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 31; ISSN 0969-997X

Publisher:: WileyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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