Age and Growth of the Common Thresher Shark in the Western North Atlantic Ocean

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 142, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1535-1545

  Gervelis, Brian J ^a   Natanson, Lisa J ^a  

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; DATA SET; DECISION MAKING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROWTH MODELING; GROWTH RATE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; SHARK;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84889659941     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00028487.2013.815658     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Anderson, D. R., Link, W. A., Johnson, D. H. and Burnham, K. P. 2001. Suggestions for presenting the results of data analyses. Journal of Wildlife Management, 65: 373 - 378.
2. Andrews, A. H., Natanson, L. J., Kerr, L. A., Burgess, G. H. and Cailliet, G. M. 2011. Bomb radiocarbon and tag-recapture dating of Sandbar Shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus). U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service Fishery Bulletin, 109: 454 - 465.
3. Ardizzone, D., Cailliet, G. M., Natanson, L. J., Andrews, A. H., Kerr, L. A. and Brown, T. A. 2006. Application of bomb radiocarbon chronologies to Shortfin Mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) age validation. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 77: 355 - 366.
4. Baty, F. and Delignette-Muller, M. L. 2011. nlstools: tools for nonlinear regression diagnostics, R package version 0.0-11, Vienna: R Foundation for Statistical Computing.
5. Bowker, A. H. 1948. A test for symmetry in contingency tables. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 43: 572 - 574.
6. Burnham, K. P. and Anderson, D. R. 2002. Model selection and multimodel inference: a practical information-theoretic approach, 2nd edition, New York: Springer.
7. Cailliet, G. M. 1990. Elasmobranch age determination and verification: an updated review. NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Technical Report NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service), 90: 157 - 165.
8. Cailliet, G. M., Martin, L. K., Harvey, J. T., Kusher, D. and Welden, B. A. 1983. Preliminary studies on the age and growth of the Blue, Prionace glauca, Common Thresher, Alopias vulpinus, and Shortfin Mako, Isurus oxyrinchus, sharks from California waters. NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Technical Report NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service), 8: 179 - 188.
9. Campana, S. E., Annand, M. C. and McMillan, J. I. 1995. Graphical and statistical methods for determining the consistency of age determinations. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 124: 131 - 138.
10. Campana, S. E., Natanson, L. J. and Myklevoll, S. 2002. Bomb dating and age determination of large pelagic sharks. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 59: 450 - 455.
11. Carlson, J. K. and Baremore, I. E. 2003. Changes in biological parameters of Atlantic Sharpnose Shark Rhizoprionodon terraenovae in the Gulf of Mexico: evidence for density-dependent growth and maturity?. Marine and Freshwater Research, 54: 227 - 234.
12. Cassoff, R. M., Campana, S. E. and Myklevoll, S. 2007. Changes in baseline growth and maturation parameters of northwest Atlantic Porbeagle, Lamna nasus, following heavy exploitation. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 64: 19 - 29.
13. Castro, J. I. 2011. The sharks of North America, New York: Oxford University Press.
14. Compagno, L. J. V. 2001. Sharks of the world: an annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date-volume 2. Bullhead, Mackerel, and Carpet sharks (Heterodontiformes, Lamniformes and Orectolobiformes), Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
15. Cortés, E. 2007. Chondrichthyan demographic modelling: an essay on its use, abuse and future. Marine and Freshwater Research, 58: 4 - 6.
16. Evans, G. T. and Hoenig, J. M. 1998. Testing and viewing symmetry in contingency tables, with application to readers of fish ages. Biometrics, 54: 620 - 629.
17. Fernandez-Carvalho, J., Coelho, R., Erzini, K. and Santos, M. N. 2011. Age and growth of the Bigeye Thresher Shark, Alopias superciliosus, from the pelagic longline fisheries in the tropical northeastern Atlantic Ocean, determined by vertebral band counts. Aquatic Living Resources, 24: 359 - 368.
18. Francis, M. P., Campana, S. E. and Jones, C. M. 2007. Age under-estimation in New Zealand Porbeagle Sharks (Lamna nasus): is there an upper limit to ages that can be determined from shark vertebrae?. Marine and Freshwater Research, 58: 10 - 23.
19. Gedamke, T., DuPaul, W. D. and Musick, J. A. 2005. Observations on the life history of the Barndoor Skate, Dipturus laevis, on Georges Bank (western North Atlantic). Journal of Northwest Atlantic Fishery Science, 35: 67 - 78.
20. Goldman, K. J. 2004. " Age and growth of elasmobranch fishes ". In Elasmobranch fisheries management techniques, Edited by: Musick, J. A. and Bonfil, R. 97 - 132. Singapore: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Publication APEC203-FS-03.2.
21. Goldman, K. J., Baum, J., Cailliet, G. M., Cortés, E., Kohin, S., Macías, D., Megalofonou, P., Perez, M., Soldo, A. and Trejo, T. 2009. IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) red list of threatened species, version 2012.2: Alopias vulpinus. IUCN, Global Species Programme Office Cambridge, UK Available: www.iucnredlist.org. (May 2013)
22. Goldman, K. J., Cailliet, G. M., Andrews, A. H. and Natanson, L. J. 2012. " Assessing the age and growth of chondrichthyan fishes ". In Biology of sharks and their relatives, 2nd edition, Edited by: Carrier, J. C., Musick, J. A. and Heithaus, M. R. 423 - 451. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press.
23. Gubanov, Y. P. 1972. On the biology of the Thresher Shark, Alopias vulpinus (Bonnaterre), in the northwest Indian Ocean. Journal of Ichthyology, 12: 591 - 600.
24. Hoenig, J. M. 1983. Empirical use of longevity data to estimate mortality rates. U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service Fishery Bulletin, 82: 898 - 903.
25. Hoenig, J. M., Morgan, M. J. and Brown, C. A. 1995. Analysing differences between two age determination methods by tests of symmetry. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 52: 364 - 368.
26. Kalish, J. M. and Johnston, J. 2001. " Determination of school shark age based on analysis of radiocarbon in vertebral collagen ". In Use of the bomb radiocarbon chronometer to validate fish age, Edited by: Kalish, J. M. 116 - 122. Canberra, Australia: Fisheries Research and Development Corporation.
27. 15N in vertebrae of White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) from the eastern North Pacific Ocean. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 77: 337 - 353.
28. Kneebone, J., Natanson, L. J., Andrews, A. H. and Howell, W. H. 2008. Using bomb radiocarbon analyses to validate age and growth estimates for the Tiger Shark, Galeocerdo cuvier, in the western North Atlantic. Marine Biology, 154: 423 - 434.
29. Kohler, N. E., Casey, J. G. and Turner, P. A. 1995. Length-weight relationships for 13 species of sharks from the western North Atlantic. U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service Fishery Bulletin, 93: 412 - 418.
30. Lagler, K. F. 1952. Freshwater fishery biology, Dubuque, Iowa: Brown.
31. Liu, K. M., Chen, C. T., Liao, T. H. and Joung, S. J. 1999. Age, growth, and reproduction of the pelagic Thresher Shark, Alopias pelagicus, in the northwestern Pacific. Copeia, 1999: 68 - 74.
32. Liu, K. M., Chiang, P. J. and Chen, C. T. 1998. Age and growth estimates of the Bigeye Thresher Shark, Alopias superciliosus, in northeastern Taiwan waters. U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service Fishery Bulletin, 96: 482 - 491.
33. McNemar, Q. 1947. Note on the sampling error of the difference between correlated proportions or percentages. Psychometrika, 12: 153 - 157.
34. Natanson, L. J. and Gervelis, B. J. 2013. The reproductive biology of the Common Thresher Shark in the western North Atlantic. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 142: 1546 - 1562.
35. Natanson, L. J., Mello, J. J. and Campana, S. E. 2002. Validated age and growth of the Porbeagle Shark (Lamna nasus) in the western North Atlantic Ocean. U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service Fishery Bulletin, 100: 266 - 278.
36. NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service). 2012. Stock assessment and fishery evaluation (SAFE) report for Atlantic highly migratory species, Silver Spring, Maryland: NMFS, NOAA Fisheries, Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Management Division.
37. Passerotti, M. S., Carlson, J. K., Piercy, A. N. and Campana, S. E. 2010. Age validation of Great Hammerhead Shark (Sphyrna mokarran), determined by bomb radiocarbon analysis. U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service Fishery Bulletin, 108: 346 - 351.
38. R Development Core Team. 2012. R: a language and environment for statistical computing, Vienna: R Foundation for Statistical Computing.
39. Ricker, W. E. 1975. Computation and interpretation of biological statistics of fish populations. Fisheries Research Board of Canada Bulletin 191
40. Ricker, W. E. 1979. Growth rates and models. Fish Physiology, 8: 677 - 743.
41. Rose, K. A., Cowan, J. H. Jr., Winemiller, K. O., Myers, R. A. and Hilborn, R. 2001. Compensatory density dependence in fish populations: importance, controversy, understanding and prognosis. Fish and Fisheries, 2: 293 - 327.
42. Sminkey, T. R. and Musick, J. A. 1995. Age and growth of the Sandbar Shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus, before and after population depletion. Copeia, 1995: 871 - 883.
43. Smith, S. E., Rasmussen, R. C., Ramon, D. A. and Cailliet, G. M. 2008. " Biology and ecology of Thresher Sharks (Alopiidae) ". In Sharks of the open ocean: biology, fisheries and conservation, Edited by: Camhi, M. D., Pikitch, E. K. and Babcock, E. A. 60 - 68. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Scientific Publications.
44. Taylor, C. C. 1958. Cod growth and temperature. Journal du Conseil, Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer, 23: 366 - 370.
45. Taylor, I. G. and Gallucci, V. F. 2009. Unconfounding the effects of climate and density dependence using 60 years of data on Spiny Dogfish (Squalus acanthias). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 66: 351 - 366.
46. von Bertalanffy, L. 1938. A quantitative theory of organic growth (inquiries on growth laws II). Human Biology, 10: 181 - 213.
47. Walker, T. I. 1998. Can shark resources be harvested sustainably? a question revisited with a review of shark fisheries. Marine and Freshwater Research, 49: 553 - 572.