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Observations on the Pearl Oyster Fishery of Kuwait S Old Dominion University ODU Digital Commons Biological Sciences Faculty Publications Biological Sciences 1993 Observations on the Pearl Oyster Fishery of Kuwait S. M. Almatar Kent E. Carpenter Old Dominion University, [email protected] R. Jackson S. H. Alhazeem A. H. Alsaffar See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/biology_fac_pubs Part of the Aquaculture and Fisheries Commons, Marine Biology Commons, and the Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology Commons Repository Citation Almatar, S. M.; Carpenter, Kent E.; Jackson, R.; Alhazeem, S. H.; Alsaffar, A. H.; Ghaffar, A. R. A.; and Carpenter, C., "Observations on the Pearl Oyster Fishery of Kuwait" (1993). Biological Sciences Faculty Publications. 71. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/biology_fac_pubs/71 Original Publication Citation Almatar, S.M., Carpenter, K.E., Jackson, R., Alhazeem, S.H., Alsaffar, A.H., Ghaffar, A.R.A., & Carpenter, C. (1993). Observations on the pearl oyster fishery of Kuwait. Journal of Shellfish Research, 12(1), 35-40. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Biological Sciences at ODU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Biological Sciences Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of ODU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Authors S. M. Almatar, Kent E. Carpenter, R. Jackson, S. H. Alhazeem, A. H. Alsaffar, A. R. A. Ghaffar, and C. Carpenter This article is available at ODU Digital Commons: https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/biology_fac_pubs/71 Jo 1mwl of hel/ftsh R,·.H·arch. ol. L . No. I , , O. 1993 OBSERVATIONS ON THE PEARL OYSTER FISHERY OF KUWAIT S. 1\1. AL.l\1ATAR. K. E. CARPENTER.* R . .JACKSON, S. H. ALHAZEEM. A. H. AL-SAFFAR. A. R. ABDUL GHAFFAR AND C. CARPENTER* Kuwait Institute for Sciemific Research Mari 1dture and Fisheries Departmelll P.O. Box 1638, Salmiya 22017 KuH ·air ABSTRACT The pearl oy. ter fi shery of Kuw ait wa · monitored dail y from January 1989 to 1'fay 1990_. Landing of pearl ~ysters in 19<9 torall cd 2 7 tons with a market valu of U. 1.0 million. C mmer ial pearls (> 3 mm ) were estimated to be present in ?~e of C\ , ry ..•'1()() _ y. t ers-. to. t of the J)Carl oy· te~ landed w' r new re rutt with hm. g length s between 40- 56. mm . There wa. a curvilinearh , re lati onship oe1ween wtal weight and . iz of oyster (length ) and the ex rati o approached _1 : 1. : pawning occur .. throughout t e }ear. with a spat se ttlement peak in earl y fall. Ove r the size range examined there was no relauonshtp betwee n 1he size of oysters and the size of pearls and sub equenr resour e management strateg ie s are db.cussed. KEl' WORDS : pearl. oy rer. Pinctada radiata. fohery lN'TRODUCTION describe ize compo ition and frequency of pearl occurrence and di cus resource management trategies in light of the present Thriving from hi tori times until the I 93 s, the traditional finding . pearl oy ter fi hery in the Arabian Gulf was large and revered . furnishing about oc: of the world production of natural pearls. l\lA TERIALS AND METHODS which were famou for their exce llent hapc and quality (Bowen 1951 ). Lorimer (1915) de cribed the various pearl oyster banks in individual boat fishing activity and catches were monitored the Arabian Gulf (Fig . I ) and c timated the ave rage early export daily at the single pearl oyster market in Kuwait by interviewing value of pearls and mother-of-pearl ( hell ) to be Pounds Sterling fi shermen in the market place. Fishing effort wa calculated by 56 I ,353 and 269, 7 . re pec tively. for the period 1873 to I 905 . multiplying the number of boat by average number of diving The annual catch for the entire Arabian Gulf was approximately hours: the latter was estimated via interviews and direct observa­ 35.000 ton . a c n ervative e timate cakulated from literature tion. rep rt of cat h rate. number of boats and number f fi hermen Monthly ize frequency di tribution of the oyster hinge length Lorimer 1915. Villier 1969). (HL) were obtained from sampl e (200-300 oysters) purchased Bowen ( I 95 I ) de scri bed th early pearl diving techniques and twice a month . Allometric measurement (maximum dor o-ventral discu sed various aspects of the industry. Pearl fi shing in the Gulf height. (DVM). total oy ·ter weight and wet meat weight) were wa. performed originally only during sununer. May to September. obtained from subsample . Shell measurements were measured to Except fo r occasional inclement weather. diving wa. a ontinuous the nearest 0. J mm using Vernier calipers. Oyster were cleaned operation over thi s period . The traditional fi hery de lined steadily of external fouling material and wiped dry before weighing to the fro m 1930 onward because of a world rece ion. the introduction neare t 0. I g. Oy ter meat were shucked from the shell and of Japanc e cultured pearl . and later with the di covery of oil in weighed individually . Sex was determined by gonad color: fe­ the area. In the late 1940s mo t people deserted the pearl indu try males were yellow-orange thr ughout study and mature males for more lucrative oil -related po itions. were milky white when . exually active or brown-yellow in the In the late I 960 • p arl fi hing was revived with the introduc­ restin g stage. Oy ters of undetennined sex were recorded as im­ ti on of modem diving equipment. such as air comprc sors and mature . Wet mounts of gonads were conducted frequently to con­ speedboats. Since 1980. pearl oy tcr fi hing is practised year Finn ex. round in Kuwait. A pearl oy tcr market was re-established in Kuwait in 1982. and the first atch stati tic were reponed for a five-month period in I 3 (A lmatar et al. 19 4). The pre.ent pearl RESULTS oy ter market of Kuwait i. based cxclu ively on natural pearl from Pinctada radiata (Leach). (Khamdan I 988) . ln the Arabian The Curre111 Fishery Gulf this pecies has variously been referred to as P. margaritifera (S tei ninger 1968. Andcrlini ct al. 1981. Almatar ct al. 1984) , P. The diving fleet during · thi s study consi ted of 25 speedboat f ucaw (Mohammad 1976) and P. radiata (Sadig and Alam 1989). (3 m O L). mo t with a inglc diver. Eleven major pearl oy ster The objective of thi s report i to review pearl oyster landing . b ds. varying in size from one t everal quare kilometers (10-20 m deep). were scattered within the fishing ground (Fig . 2). An average of six JO-minute dives per day per diver were conducted *Present Address: Food & Agriculture Organization of the Uniled Nation . u ing h kah air supply sy terns between a.m. and 12 noon. Via le delle Terme di Caaracall a. 00100 Rome. hal y. Div r hand-picked oy tcrs and placed approximately 6 kg in a 5 36 A L .M AT R ET L. 43 so 52 54 5 6 N IRAN I 28 28 26 .. .. " ···: :-.... ..... .. .... : :: ;~ .. 24 24 UNITED ARAB E Ml RATES so 5 4 56 Figure 1. Lo('ation of traditional pearl OJSter beds in the Arabian Gulf (from Lorimer 1915). mesh bag. Unsorted oysters were sold to buyers at the market who Size Composition later opened th e oyster~ to retrieve any pe arl s which were subse­ Total shell and meat weight. wet fl esh weight and hin ge length quentl y resold. (H L) arc presented by size groups in Table I . Quarterly size fre­ quency histograms arc shown in Figure 4 . The HL of the majority Catch Statistics and Fishing £ffort of pearl oysters were unimodal and ranged between 40-56 mm . Oys ters le _ th an 40 mm HL were landed throughout the year. but The mean dail y landing of pearl oy!)tcrs in 1989 was 865 kg. were most abundant in fall and winter. and varied from 146 kg in January to 1716 kg in Jul y (Fig . 3) . A linear re lationship exists between HL and maximum height 6 La ndin g in 1989 totaled 287 tons or about 6.3 x I 0 oyster . (0 M ) measurement : worth approximately U.S. $ J .O million. DV~1 = - 16.863 + 1. 619 (HL) (r = 0.79: n = 120) Land ings varied direc tl y with effort : highest effort occ urred be twee n June and October. The poor \\'Cather/di ving conditions The silc-wcight data (Fig. 5 ) arc best desc ribecd by urvilinear between December and March accounted fo r the IO'-''CS t cffort relationships of the fo rm Y = al t> (where Y is total weight in g (Fig. 3). The average catch per hour of diving (CPUE) in 1989 wa and L is length in mm) as fo llows: 37 ± 17 .4 kg ( n = I 2): this i:-. a ~li ght ovcre~tim atc since some Log (Wt) = -5.655 + 4.253 log (HL) divi ng boats occasionall y carri ed more th an nnc di ver. CPU E was (r = 0.78: n = 120) lowest in January I 989 and hi ghest in Jul y 1989. Earli er data from l 983 also showed that landing~ and CP E increased steadily from Log (Wt ) = - 4.246 + 3.228 log (DVM ) May to September 1983 (Fi g. 3) (unpublished data).
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