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Impacts of oceanographic factors on interannual variability of the winter-spring cohort of neon flying squid abundance in the Northwest Pacific Ocean

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The neon flying squid Ommastrephes bartramii is an economically important species in the Northwest Pacific Ocean. The life cycle of O. bartramii is highly susceptible to climatic and oceanic factors. In this study, we have examined the impacts of climate variability and local biophysical environments on the interannual variability of the abundance of the western winter-spring cohort of O. bartramii over the period of 1995–2011. The results showed that the squid had experienced alternant positive and negative Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) over the past 17 years during which five El Niño and eight La Niña events occurred. The catch per unit effort (CPUE) was positively correlated with the PDO index (PDOI) at a one-year time lag. An abnormally warm temperature during the La Niña years over the positive PDO phase provided favorable oceanographic conditions for the habitats of O. bartramii, whereas a lower temperature on the fishing ground during the El Niño years over the negative PDO phase generally corresponded to a low CPUE. The same correlation was also found between CPUE and Chl a concentration anomaly. A possible explanation was proposed that the CPUE was likely related to the climateinduced variability of the large-scale circulation in the Northwest Pacific Ocean: high squid abundance often occurred in a year with a significant northward meander of the Kuroshio Current. The Kuroshio Current advected the warmer and food-rich waters into the fishing ground, and multiple meso-scale eddies arising from current instability enhanced the food retention on the fishing ground, all of which were favorable for the life stage development of the western squid stocks. Our results help better understand the potential process that the climatic and oceanographic factors affect the abundance of the winter-spring cohort of O. bartramii in the Northwest Pacific Ocean.

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The authors thank the Chinese squid-jigging technology group of Shanghai Ocean University for providing the fishery data, and the NOAA Global Argo Data Repository, Ocean-Watch Data Library, the Marine Ecosystem Dynamics Modeling Laboratory (MEDML) at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean and the NOAA Climate Prediction Center for providing the environmental data.

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  1. College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, 201306, China

    Wei Yu, Xinjun Chen & Yu Zhang

  2. National Engineering Research Center for Oceanic Fisheries, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, 201306, China

    Wei Yu & Xinjun Chen

  3. Key Laboratory of Sustainable Exploitation of Oceanic Fisheries Resources of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, 201306, China

    Wei Yu & Xinjun Chen

  4. Collaborative Innovation Center for Distant-water Fisheries, Shanghai, 201306, China

    Wei Yu & Xinjun Chen

  5. School for Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, 02744, USA

    Changsheng Chen

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The China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under contract No. 2017M611612; the National Key Technologies R&D Program of China under contract No. 2013BAD13B01; the Doctoral Startup Scientific Research Foundation of Shanghai Ocean University under contract No. A2-0203-17-100313; the Open Fund for Key Laboratory of Sustainable Exploitation of Oceanic Fisheries Resources in Shanghai Ocean University under contract No. A1-0203-00-2009-5; the Shanghai Universities First-Class Disciplines Project (Fisheries A); the Global-FVCOM system was developed with an infrastructure support by the Sino-US Joint Innovative Center for Polar Ocean Research (SU-JICPOR), International Center for Marine Studies, Shanghai Ocean University.

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Yu, W., Chen, X., Chen, C. et al. Impacts of oceanographic factors on interannual variability of the winter-spring cohort of neon flying squid abundance in the Northwest Pacific Ocean. Acta Oceanol. Sin. 36, 48–59 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13131-017-1069-0

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