Abdulqader, Ebrahim A. A.,Miller, Jeff,Al-Mansi, Ahmed,Al-Abdulkader, Khaled,Fita, Nabil,Al-Nadhiri, Hussein,Rabaoui, Lotfi
Turtles and other marine megafauna bycatch in artisanal fisheries in the Saudi waters of the Arabian Gulf Journal Article
In: Fisheries Research, vol. 196, no. 1, pp. 75-84, 2017, ISBN: 0165-7836.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Arabian Gulf, Bycatch, cetaceans, Fisheries, marine turtles, Megafauna, Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia
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title = {Turtles and other marine megafauna bycatch in artisanal fisheries in the Saudi waters of the Arabian Gulf},
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abstract = {Fisheries impacts on marine megafauna have received global attention and are recognized as a serious problem. In Saudi waters of the Arabian Gulf, the artisanal fishery is responsible for 99.6% of landings. It uses a range of boat sizes and various types of fishing gears and operates in all accessible areas from shallow coastal bays to deep offshore waters. The objective of this work is to assess the captures and the impact of all fishing gear types used by the Saudi artisanal fishery on four marine megafauna groups: turtles, birds, dolphins, and dugongs (Dugong dugon). Nine questionnaire surveys were carried out from May 2013 to November 2014, covering a two-month period each. Ten main gear types were found to be used by 25 directed fisheries, including shrimp trawl, wire trap, hand line, troll, pelagic and demersal longline, and drift, surrounding, fixed, and set gillnets. Turtles were captured in relatively high numbers (4726 captures year−1) in nine directed fisheries, among which shrimp trawl fishery was responsible for 86.3% of the captures. The lowest capture rates were found with birds (13.1 captures year−1) and dolphins (7.4 captures year−1), related mainly with the Spanish mackerel longline and Indian mackerel surrounding gillnet fisheries. No dugong captures were recorded. In all, the Saudi artisanal fishery operating in the Arabian Gulf has a high impact on turtles and low impact on birds and dolphins. No impact on dugongs was reported during this study.},
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Fisheries impacts on marine megafauna have received global attention and are recognized as a serious problem. In Saudi waters of the Arabian Gulf, the artisanal fishery is responsible for 99.6% of landings. It uses a range of boat sizes and various types of fishing gears and operates in all accessible areas from shallow coastal bays to deep offshore waters. The objective of this work is to assess the captures and the impact of all fishing gear types used by the Saudi artisanal fishery on four marine megafauna groups: turtles, birds, dolphins, and dugongs (Dugong dugon). Nine questionnaire surveys were carried out from May 2013 to November 2014, covering a two-month period each. Ten main gear types were found to be used by 25 directed fisheries, including shrimp trawl, wire trap, hand line, troll, pelagic and demersal longline, and drift, surrounding, fixed, and set gillnets. Turtles were captured in relatively high numbers (4726 captures year−1) in nine directed fisheries, among which shrimp trawl fishery was responsible for 86.3% of the captures. The lowest capture rates were found with birds (13.1 captures year−1) and dolphins (7.4 captures year−1), related mainly with the Spanish mackerel longline and Indian mackerel surrounding gillnet fisheries. No dugong captures were recorded. In all, the Saudi artisanal fishery operating in the Arabian Gulf has a high impact on turtles and low impact on birds and dolphins. No impact on dugongs was reported during this study.
Notarbartolo di Sciara, G,Kerem, D.,Smeenk, C.
Cetaceans of the Red Sea Technical Report
no. 185, 2017.
Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Arabian Sea, cetaceans, Distribution, Egypt, occurrence, Red Sea, Saudi Arabia
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title = {Cetaceans of the Red Sea},
author = {Notarbartolo di Sciara, G,Kerem, D.,Smeenk, C.},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
journal = {CMS Technical series 33},
volume = {33},
number = {185},
pages = {86},
publisher = {Convention on Migratory Species},
abstract = {Based on a review of the literature, complemented by original observations at sea made by the authors during the
past 34 years, the cetacean fauna in the Red Sea appears to be composed of a total of 16 species: three Mysticetes
(Bryde’s whale, Balaenoptera edeni; Omura’s whale, B. omurai; and humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae) and
13 Odontocetes (dwarf sperm whale, Kogia sima; killer whale, Orcinus orca; false killer whale, Pseudorca crassidens;
short-finned pilot whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus; Risso’s dolphin, Grampus griseus; Indian Ocean humpback
dolphin, Sousa plumbea; rough-toothed dolphin, Steno bredanensis; Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops
aduncus; common bottlenose dolphin, T. truncatus; pantropical spotted dolphin, Stenella attenuata; spinner dolphin,
S. longirostris; striped dolphin, S. coeruleoalba; Indo-Pacific common dolphin, Delphinus delphis tropicalis).
This review presents the very first documented and confirmed sightings of B. omurai, K. sima and S. bredanensis
in the Red Sea. Of all the above species, however, only nine (Bryde’s whale, false killer whale, Risso’s dolphin, Indian
Ocean humpback dolphin, Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, common bottlenose dolphin, pantropical spotted dolphin,
spinner dolphin, and Indo-Pacific common dolphin) appeared to occur regularly in the Red Sea, the remaining seven
only occurring sporadically as vagrants from the Indian Ocean. Even regular species appeared not to be uniformly
distributed throughout the Red Sea, e.g., with Indo-Pacific common dolphins mostly limited to the southern portion
of the region, and the Gulf of Suez only hosting the two bottlenose dolphin species and Indian Ocean humpback
dolphins. No convincing evidence was found of the Red Sea occurrence of two whale species mentioned in the
literature: the common minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, and the sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus.
The absence from the region of deep diving species (e.g., Ziphiidae and the sperm whale) can be explained by the
geomorphology of the Straits of Bab al Mandab, with its extended shallow sill likely to discourage incursions by
such species into the Red Sea. The coordinated effort and the different expertise of the authors has contributed to
amending previous mistakes and inaccuracies, verifying and validating specimen identification, highlighting features
of relevance for species taxonomy and, most importantly, drawing a fundamental baseline to inform conservation of
cetaceans in the Red Sea},
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Based on a review of the literature, complemented by original observations at sea made by the authors during the
past 34 years, the cetacean fauna in the Red Sea appears to be composed of a total of 16 species: three Mysticetes
(Bryde’s whale, Balaenoptera edeni; Omura’s whale, B. omurai; and humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae) and
13 Odontocetes (dwarf sperm whale, Kogia sima; killer whale, Orcinus orca; false killer whale, Pseudorca crassidens;
short-finned pilot whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus; Risso’s dolphin, Grampus griseus; Indian Ocean humpback
dolphin, Sousa plumbea; rough-toothed dolphin, Steno bredanensis; Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops
aduncus; common bottlenose dolphin, T. truncatus; pantropical spotted dolphin, Stenella attenuata; spinner dolphin,
S. longirostris; striped dolphin, S. coeruleoalba; Indo-Pacific common dolphin, Delphinus delphis tropicalis).
This review presents the very first documented and confirmed sightings of B. omurai, K. sima and S. bredanensis
in the Red Sea. Of all the above species, however, only nine (Bryde’s whale, false killer whale, Risso’s dolphin, Indian
Ocean humpback dolphin, Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, common bottlenose dolphin, pantropical spotted dolphin,
spinner dolphin, and Indo-Pacific common dolphin) appeared to occur regularly in the Red Sea, the remaining seven
only occurring sporadically as vagrants from the Indian Ocean. Even regular species appeared not to be uniformly
distributed throughout the Red Sea, e.g., with Indo-Pacific common dolphins mostly limited to the southern portion
of the region, and the Gulf of Suez only hosting the two bottlenose dolphin species and Indian Ocean humpback
dolphins. No convincing evidence was found of the Red Sea occurrence of two whale species mentioned in the
literature: the common minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, and the sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus.
The absence from the region of deep diving species (e.g., Ziphiidae and the sperm whale) can be explained by the
geomorphology of the Straits of Bab al Mandab, with its extended shallow sill likely to discourage incursions by
such species into the Red Sea. The coordinated effort and the different expertise of the authors has contributed to
amending previous mistakes and inaccuracies, verifying and validating specimen identification, highlighting features
of relevance for species taxonomy and, most importantly, drawing a fundamental baseline to inform conservation of
cetaceans in the Red Sea
past 34 years, the cetacean fauna in the Red Sea appears to be composed of a total of 16 species: three Mysticetes
(Bryde’s whale, Balaenoptera edeni; Omura’s whale, B. omurai; and humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae) and
13 Odontocetes (dwarf sperm whale, Kogia sima; killer whale, Orcinus orca; false killer whale, Pseudorca crassidens;
short-finned pilot whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus; Risso’s dolphin, Grampus griseus; Indian Ocean humpback
dolphin, Sousa plumbea; rough-toothed dolphin, Steno bredanensis; Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops
aduncus; common bottlenose dolphin, T. truncatus; pantropical spotted dolphin, Stenella attenuata; spinner dolphin,
S. longirostris; striped dolphin, S. coeruleoalba; Indo-Pacific common dolphin, Delphinus delphis tropicalis).
This review presents the very first documented and confirmed sightings of B. omurai, K. sima and S. bredanensis
in the Red Sea. Of all the above species, however, only nine (Bryde’s whale, false killer whale, Risso’s dolphin, Indian
Ocean humpback dolphin, Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, common bottlenose dolphin, pantropical spotted dolphin,
spinner dolphin, and Indo-Pacific common dolphin) appeared to occur regularly in the Red Sea, the remaining seven
only occurring sporadically as vagrants from the Indian Ocean. Even regular species appeared not to be uniformly
distributed throughout the Red Sea, e.g., with Indo-Pacific common dolphins mostly limited to the southern portion
of the region, and the Gulf of Suez only hosting the two bottlenose dolphin species and Indian Ocean humpback
dolphins. No convincing evidence was found of the Red Sea occurrence of two whale species mentioned in the
literature: the common minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, and the sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus.
The absence from the region of deep diving species (e.g., Ziphiidae and the sperm whale) can be explained by the
geomorphology of the Straits of Bab al Mandab, with its extended shallow sill likely to discourage incursions by
such species into the Red Sea. The coordinated effort and the different expertise of the authors has contributed to
amending previous mistakes and inaccuracies, verifying and validating specimen identification, highlighting features
of relevance for species taxonomy and, most importantly, drawing a fundamental baseline to inform conservation of
cetaceans in the Red Sea
Collins, Tim.,Preen, A.,Wilson, A.,Braulik, G.,Minton, G.,Baldwin, R.M.
Finless porpoise ( Technical Report
no. 351, 2005.
BibTeX | Tags: Arabian Sea, Finless Porpoise, Iran, Iraq, Oman, Pakistan, Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia
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title = {Finless porpoise (},
author = {Collins, Tim.,Preen, A.,Wilson, A.,Braulik, G.,Minton, G.,Baldwin, R.M.},
year = {2005},
date = {2005-01-01},
journal = {Paper SC/57/SM6 presented to the IWC Scientific Committee, June 2005 (unpublished). 18pp. [available from the Office of this Journal]},
number = {351},
keywords = {Arabian Sea, Finless Porpoise, Iran, Iraq, Oman, Pakistan, Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {techreport}
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ROPME
State of the Marine Environment Report. ROPME/GC-11/003 Technical Report
no. 457, 2003.
BibTeX | Tags: Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Persian Gulf, Qatar, Saudi Arabia
@techreport{,
title = {State of the Marine Environment Report. ROPME/GC-11/003},
author = {ROPME},
year = {2003},
date = {2003-01-01},
number = {457},
pages = {217},
publisher = {Regional Organisation for the Protection of the Marine Environment},
keywords = {Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Persian Gulf, Qatar, Saudi Arabia},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {techreport}
}
al-Robaae, Khalaf.
Neophocaena phocaenoides Journal Article
In: Bulletin of the Basrah Natural History Museum, vol. 2, no. 286, pp. 47-49, 1975.
BibTeX | Tags: Arabian Gulf, Finless Porpoise, Iran, Iraq, Oman, Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia
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title = {Neophocaena phocaenoides},
author = {al-Robaae, Khalaf.},
year = {1975},
date = {1975-01-01},
journal = {Bulletin of the Basrah Natural History Museum},
volume = {2},
number = {286},
pages = {47-49},
keywords = {Arabian Gulf, Finless Porpoise, Iran, Iraq, Oman, Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Chiffings, Anthony.
Marine Region 11: Arabian Seas Book
0000.
BibTeX | Tags: Arabia, Arabian Sea, Iran, Iraq, Marine Protected Area, Oman, Pakistan, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Saudi Arabia, UAE
@book{,
title = {Marine Region 11: Arabian Seas},
author = {Chiffings, Anthony.},
journal = {A Global Representative system of Marine Protected Areas},
number = {344},
pages = {39-71},
keywords = {Arabia, Arabian Sea, Iran, Iraq, Marine Protected Area, Oman, Pakistan, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Saudi Arabia, UAE},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {book}
}