Coastal winds and larval fish abundance indicate a recruitment mechanism for southeast Australian estuarine fisheries
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Fisheries Oceanography, 2022, 31, (1), pp. 40-55
- Issue Date:
- 2022-01-01
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Coastal winds transport water masses and larval fish onshore or offshore which may influence estuarine recruitment yet our understanding of the mechanism underlying this relationship is limited Here we combine datasets from a historical database of larval fish off southeast Australia with a high resolution atmospheric reanalysis model to show that normalised abundance of coastally spawned larvae increased with weak to moderate upwelling favourable winds 14 days prior to sampling The increase in abundance may reflect increased nutrient and plankton availability for larval fish Normalised larval abundance decreased following strong upwelling favourable winds but increased after onshore downwelling favourable winds due to wind driven transport By combining a commercial estuarine fisheries catch rate dataset 4 species 8 estuaries 10 years and the high resolution atmospheric reanalysis model we show that negative effects of upwelling favourable winds during the spawning period can be detected in lagged estuarine commercial fisheries catch rates lagged by 2 8 years depending on species growth rates potentially representing the same mechanism proposed for larval fish Upwelling favourable winds in the southeast Australian region have increased since 1850 while onshore winds have decreased which may have reduced larval recruitment to estuaries Coastal winds are likely an important factor for estuarine recruitment in the southeast Australian region and future research on the estuarine recruitment of fish should incorporate coastal winds 2021 John Wiley Sons Ltd
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