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A comparison of fishery biology of jumbo flying squid, Dosidicus gigas outside three Exclusive Economic Zones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean

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Although many studies on the fishery biology of jumbo flying squid, Dosidicus gigas, have been conducted in the coastal areas within Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) of various countries due to its commercial and ecological importance, limited biological information is available from waters outside these EEZs. In this paper, we examined D. gigas fishery biology from waters outside Chilean, Peruvian and Costa Rican EEZs, based on the fishery data collected by Chinese jigging vessels during 2006 to 2010. The dominant mantle lengths of D. gigas were 350–450 mm, 250–400 mm and 250–350 mm outside Chilean, Peruvian and Costa Rican EEZs, respectively. Size structure analysis show that a medium-sized group existed mostly in the waters outside the Chilean and Peruvian EEZs, whereas a small-sized group occurred mainly in the waters outside the Costa Rican EEZ. The longevity of the squid outside the Costa Rican EEZ was less than 10 months, while most of those outside Chilean and Peruvian EEZs were about 1–1.5 years and very few large individuals were 1.5–2 years old. A higher percentage of mature individuals existed outside Costa Rican EEZ implying the region as a potential spawning ground, while lower proportions of mature squid outside the Peruvian and Chilean EEZs indicated that spawning may be occurring outside our study area. Spatial differences in sizes at maturity of the squid are thought to be result from different environmental factors especially different temperature and nutrition among the three areas. Stomach-content analysis showed that cannibalism was important in the diet of D. gigas. Stress generated by jigging may increase the incidence of cannibalism.

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    Bilin Liu  (刘必林), Xinjun Chen  (陈新军) & Qian Yi  (易倩)

  2. Key Laboratory of Sustainable Exploitation of Oceanic Fisheries Resources, Ministry of Education, Shanghai, 201306, China

    Bilin Liu  (刘必林) & Xinjun Chen  (陈新军)

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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. NSFC41276156), Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (No. 13YE091), Industrialization Project of National Development and Reform Commission (No. 2159999), Project of Shanghai Science and Technology Commission (No. 12231203900), National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) (No. 2012AA092303), Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project (Fisheries Discipline), National Distant-Water Fisheries Engineering Research Center, and the Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Oceanic Fishery Resources, Ministry of Agriculture

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Liu, B., Chen, X. & Yi, Q. A comparison of fishery biology of jumbo flying squid, Dosidicus gigas outside three Exclusive Economic Zones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 31, 523–533 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-013-2182-3

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