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Hydrological attributes and rheophilic freshwater fish: stock assessment

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The mathematical and statistical advances in fitting stock assessment models enabled the emergence of the paradigm of “integrated analysis”, which fits all available data to a single model of population dynamics that traditionally has total catch as the only forcing function of the system. This approach, however, allowed us to include, in a flexible way, the effect of hydrological regime as an additional forcing function. We tried to achieve this flexibility by making the annual recruitment rates and spawning biomass adjustable to the attributes of the hydrological cycle data. Our models showed that these attributes are influential in the population dynamics of Brycon hilarii of the Northern Pantanal, and their inclusion in the models allowed best partial fits (which considered fits only to the data components length- and age-compositions, CPUE of juveniles and adults) than the Base-case (without hydrological attributes). The best partial fits where obtained when the attributes “delay of floods” and “intensity of floods” were forcing the spawning biomass and the annual recruitment respectively, indicating that these characteristics of the population may be influenced by specific attributes of the water level. The use of integrated modeling contributed with the advancement of population ecology knowledge of rheophilic fish. It is recommended that freshwater fisheries management be integrated into the hydrology management.

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Acknowledgments

This work has been carried out with financial support from the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Núcleo de Pesquisas em Limnologia, Icitiologia e Aquicultura (Nupélia). The collection of data was funded by Furnas Centrais Hidrelétricas. We would like to thank Nupélia’s team for data collection and processing and the local agents, local fishermen and its representatives for collaborating with this research during field work. We would like to thank Tiago Balbi and Ângela Maria Ambrósio for gently providing their unpublished estimates of growth. We would like to thank Dr. Miguel Petrere Junior, Dra. Lucia Aparecida de Fatima Mateus, Dr. Luiz Carlos Gomes and two anonymous referees for thoroughly reviewing earlier version of the manuscript and providing valuable contributions. CVMV would like to thank Labpesq and Lipo of Oceanographic Insitute of University of São Paulo, where this manuscript was finalized.

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    Diego Corrêa Alves, Carolina Viviana Minte-Vera, Angelo Antonio Agostinho & Lilian Paula Vasconcelos

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    Carolina Viviana Minte-Vera, Angelo Antonio Agostinho & Edson Kiyoshi Okada

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Alves, D.C., Minte-Vera, C.V., Agostinho, A.A. et al. Hydrological attributes and rheophilic freshwater fish: stock assessment. Rev Fish Biol Fisheries 23, 375–394 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-012-9298-y

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