seasonal movements, aggregations and diving behavior of atlantic bluefin tuna (thunnus thynnus) revealed with archival tags季节性波动、聚合和潜水大西洋蓝鳍金枪鱼的行为(鳍thynnus)显示档案标签.pdfVIP

Seasonal Movements, Aggregations and Diving Behavior of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus ) Revealed with Archival Tags 1 2 3 4 1 5 Andreas Walli *, Steven L. H. Teo , Andre Boustany , Charles J. Farwell , Tom Williams , Heidi Dewar , Eric Prince6, Barbara A. Block1 1Tuna Research and Conservation Center, Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, California, United States of America, 2 Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, 3 Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, 4 Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, California, United States of America, 5 National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California, United States of America, 6 National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Miami, Florida, United States of America Abstract Electronic tags were used to examine the seasonal movements, aggregations and diving behaviors of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) to better understand their migration ecology and oceanic habitat utilization. Implantable archival tags (n = 561) were deployed in bluefin tuna from 1996 to 2005 and 106 tags were recovered. Movement paths of the fish were reconstructed using light level and sea-surface-temperature-based geolocation estimates. To quantify habitat utilization we employed a weighted kernel estimation technique that removed the biases of deployment location and track length. Throughout the North Atlantic, high residence times (167 633 days) were identified in four spatially confined regions on a seasonal scale. Within