Effect of environmental factors on abundance and distribution of the flyingfish around Parbados, West Indies
1991
Somkiat Khokiattiwong (Phuket Marine Biological Center (Thailand)) | Robin Mahon | Wayne Hunt
Quantitative analysis of the relationships between seasonal variable inabundance of flyingfish around Barbados and that of oceanographic and climatic factors would require many years of data. However, it is possible that examination of the effects of these variables on daily catch rates of flyingfish within a single season may provide insight into which factors are of significance to flyingfish. The correlation between oceanographic and climatic factors (sea temperature, salinity, transparency, water color, wind speed, wind direction, swell height, cloud cover and rainfall) with daily catch rate of flyingfish were therefore examined in this study. Surface water temperature, windspeed and swell height are the only environmental factors which show significant correlation with catch rate for flyingfish. Temperature appears to be negatively correlated with catch rate, whereas wind speed and swell height there is an optimum.
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