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Age and Growth of the Sandbar Shark (Carcharhinus Plumbeus) from the Northern Gulf of Mexico and the Western North Atlantic Ocean Loraine F Gulf of Mexico Science Volume 31 Article 3 Number 1 Number 1/2 (Combined Issue) 2013 Age and Growth of the Sandbar Shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) from the Northern Gulf of Mexico and the Western North Atlantic Ocean Loraine F. Hale National Marine Fisheries Service Ivy E. Baremore National Marine Fisheries Service DOI: 10.18785/goms.3101.03 Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/goms Recommended Citation Hale, L. F. and I. E. Baremore. 2013. Age and Growth of the Sandbar Shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) from the Northern Gulf of Mexico and the Western North Atlantic Ocean. Gulf of Mexico Science 31 (1). Retrieved from https://aquila.usm.edu/goms/vol31/iss1/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Gulf of Mexico Science by an authorized editor of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Hale and Baremore: Age and Growth of the Sandbar Shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) from Gulf of Mexico Science, 2013(1–2), pp. 28–39 Age and Growth of the Sandbar Shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) from the Northern Gulf of Mexico and the Western North Atlantic Ocean LORAINE F. HALE AND IVY E. BAREMORE Age and growth analysis of the sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus, from the northern Gulf of Mexico and western North Atlantic Ocean was completed with vertebral samples (n = 1,194). Three parameter von Bertalanffy growth curves were run for male and female sandbar sharks separately, and growth parameters were estimated: theoretical maximum length (L‘) = 172.9 ± 1.3 cm straight-line fork length 21 [FL], growth coefficient (k) = 0.15 ± 0.01 yr , x-intercept (t0) = 22.3 ± 0.2 SE 21 (male); and L‘ = 181.2 ± 1.5 cm FL, k = 0.12 ± 0.01 yr , t0 = 23.1 ± 0.2 SE (female). The oldest sandbar shark was a 27-yr-old female, and the oldest male was 22 yr old. The age and growth parameters estimated during this study differed from those in previous studies. The differences in the age and growth parameters may indicate growth overfishing, or they may be due to the bias in sampling from a fishery that targets a limited size range of sharks. INTRODUCTION between the two time periods, remaining the same at 15–16 yr. The authors theorized that the andbar sharks, Carcharhinus plumbeus, are increase in growth rate may have indicated some S large coastal sharks that inhabit temperate effects of reduced population density due to a and subtropical waters worldwide (Compagno, decline in abundance, but that the long-term 1984). In U.S. waters, they occur from Cape Cod, population-level consequences (evidenced by a Massachusetts, to the Caribbean, including the reduction in age at maturity) had not yet been Gulf of Mexico (Springer, 1960). Sandbar sharks demonstrated due to the long generation time of have historically been an important component the sandbar shark. Subsequent studies on the U.S. of commercial shark fisheries, and in the United Atlantic Ocean population have not been con- States were harvested for meat and fins (Sminkey ducted; therefore, the impacts of further fishing and Musick, 1995). Previous studies on the mortality have not been investigated. sandbar shark in this region have produced wide In 2006, the sandbar shark was found to be ranges in estimated age and growth parameters. overfished with overfishing occurring (SEDAR, Maximum ages of sandbar sharks were estimated 2006), and all landings were subsequently pro- from 15 to 30 yr, with a range in age at maturity hibited for commercial and recreational fishers of 12–30 yr (Casey et al., 1985; Casey and (NMFS, 2008). Research recommendations de- Natanson, 1992; Sminkey and Musick, 1995; rived from the Stock Assessment Report for Large Merson, 1998). Most of the investigations into Coastal Sharks in 2006 suggested that ‘‘additional age and growth of the sandbar shark have been life history research into sandbar sharks’’ be done conducted over a small spatial range and do not to ‘‘supplement or replace the available data’’ include individuals from all size classes. used in the last sandbar shark assessment (SE- Age and growth analysis of the sandbar shark by DAR, 2006). Direct ageing of all fish was Sminkey and Musick (1995) had the most robust requested by industry representatives, because sample size and size range of any study on the the ‘‘change in stock status [to overfished with species (SEDAR, 2006). Their examination of a overfishing occurring] is mainly attributable to proportion (Chesapeake Bay and coastal Virginia revisions to life history parameters’’ (SEDAR, waters) of the U.S. Atlantic Ocean population of 2006). The age at maturity used in the 2006 sandbar sharks from two distinct time periods assessment was 19.5 yr (Merson, 1998), and was a (1980–81 and 1991–92) showed a decrease in back-calculation of age at length using the growth theoretical maximum length (L‘) and an increase curve from Sminkey and Musick (1995). Back- in the growth coefficient (k) for the latter time calculation can underestimate the age at length, period (k 5 0.09, L‘ 5 181.4 cm straight-line fork which could lead to an inflated age-at-maturity length [FL] for the latter period, sexes com- estimate (Sminkey and Musick, 1995). bined). However, the age at maturity did not Reliable age and growth estimates are neces- differ significantly (Sminkey and Musick, 1995) sary to supply the best available information for E 2013 by the Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium of Alabama Gulf of Mexico Science goms-31-01-04.3d 20/6/14 10:00:33 28 Cust # 13-004R Published by The Aquila Digital Community, 2018 1 Gulf of Mexico Science, Vol. 31 [2018], No. 1, Art. 3 HALE AND BAREMORE—AGE AND GROWTH OF THE SANDBAR SHARK 29 Fig. 1. Map of the number of sets per grid where sandbar sharks (Carcharhinus plumbeus) were sampled for age and growth analysis. stock assessment (Siegfried and Sanso´, 2006; average hook used by the bottom longline Cailliet and Andrews, 2008). As such, amend- commercial shark fishery (including the sandbar ments to the Consolidated Atlantic Highly shark research fishery) was an 18/0 offset circle Migratory Species Fishery Management Plan hook. Detailed description of the gear and implemented a sandbar shark research fishery deployment method can be found in Hale et allowed the National Marine Fisheries Service al. (2010). Additional samples were collected (NMFS) to select a limited number of commer- during fishery independent sampling by the cial shark vessels on an annual basis to collect life South Carolina Department of Natural Resourc- history and catch data for future stock assess- es (SCDNR) and the Gulf States Shark Pupping ments (NMFS, 2008). Therefore, the goal of this and Nursery (GULFSPAN) survey using gillnets study was to provide revised age and growth and longlines in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico estimates for sandbar sharks using data collected and western North Atlantic in coastal waters from 2005 to 2010. (Fig. 1). The SCDNR survey deployed a mixture of gillnets and longlines, and the GULFSPAN METHODS survey employed only gillnets. Two additional fishery-independent samples were collected by a Samples of sandbar shark vertebrae were NMFS survey using a hydraulic longline. taken, primarily from 2005 through 2010, by at- At sea, each shark was sexed and a straight-line sea observers from vessels in the northern fork length (FL) measurement was taken from western North Atlantic Ocean, including the the tip of the snout to the fork in the caudal fin northern Gulf of Mexico. After the establishment (61 cm). A portion of the vertebral column was of the research fishery in 2008, sampling removed from behind the head anterior to the protocols became more rigorous and observers origin of the first dorsal fin (McAuley et al., were required to sample vertebrae from a 2006). Vertebrae were frozen and sent to the minimum of five sandbar sharks per trip. The Panama City NMFS laboratory for processing. Gulf of Mexico Science goms-31-01-04.3d 20/6/14 10:00:33 29 Cust # 13-004R https://aquila.usm.edu/goms/vol31/iss1/3 2 DOI: 10.18785/goms.3101.03 Hale and Baremore: Age and Growth of the Sandbar Shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) from 30 GULF OF MEXICO SCIENCE, 2013, VOL. 31(1–2) Fig. 2. Image of a 12-yr-old sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) vertebra with dots marking the annuli. The CIA is the change in angle, also called the birth mark. Frozen vertebrae were thawed, excess tissue and Concentric growth bands were considered to be neural and haemal arches were removed with a one annulus (one opaque and one translucent knife and/or scalpel, and individual vertebrae band in the corpus calcareum), with the first were separated with a knife. These vertebrae were band associated with the change in angle placed in a 3–6% sodium hypochlorite (bleach) assigned as the ‘‘birth mark’’ (Cailliet and solution until all excess tissue was dissolved. In Goldman, 2004) (Fig. 2). Vertebrae were read some cases, multiple applications of the bleach independently by two readers, without knowl- were necessary to remove all tissue. Cleaned edge of the size or sex of the shark. If a section vertebrae were then rinsed for 30 sec under was considered too difficult to interpret by either running water, and stored in 70% ethanol. One reader, a second vertebral centrum was sectioned vertebral centrum from each sample was selected and reread. When independent ages differed, at random for age analysis. The selected centra the readers concurrently viewed the sections were affixed to a microscope slide with melted digitally and read the bands until a consensus resin and positioned for longitudinal sectioning band count was reached.
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