Mapping potential areas of interaction between fishing and right whale hotspots in the Right Whale Environmental Protection Area, on the southern coast of Santa Catarina, Brazil
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7925.2022.e86477Keywords:
Bycatch, Endangered species, Entanglement, Fishing, Southern right whalesAbstract
Since the end of whaling, interaction with human activities, such as fishing, is one of the main threats to the conservation of the southern right whale in Brazil. Interviews were conducted with fishermen in the Right Whale Environmental Protection Area (Área de Proteção Ambiental da Baleia-Franca, APA-BF) to identify potential areas of interaction with fishing activity in this sustainable use conservation unit. Using these data, the areas were delimited by the 95% and 50%, fixed kernel density estimator (KDE) method. From published data of the distribution of the southern right whale, using the same methodology, the overlap of the estimated areas was calculated. In total, 248.22 km² of interaction areas were identified, of which 34.15 km² (KDE whales 50% x KDE fishing 50%) are considered high interaction and 214.07 km² are medium interaction (KDE whales 95% x KDE fishing 50%).
References
BAILEY, K. Methods of social research. 4 ed. New York: The Free Press, 1994. 588 p.
BERNARD, H. R. Social research methods: qualitative and quantitative approaches. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2000. 659 p.
BOPP, T. R. Padrões de deslocamento e uso de habitat da baleia franca austral Eubalaena australis (Desmoulins, 1822), na região do Porto de Imbituba, Santa Catarina, Brasil, durante a temporada reprodutiva de 2013. 2014. 54 f. Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Bacharelado em Ciências Biológicas) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre. 2014.
GROCH, K. R. Conservation advances for Southern right whales in Brazil. In: ROSSI-SANTOS, M. R.; FINKL, C. W. (Ed.). Advances in marine vertebrate research in Latin America. Florida: Springer, 2018. p. 441-476.
GROCH, K. R.; PALAZZO JR., J. T.; FLORES, P. A. C.; ADLER, F. R.; FABIAN, M. E. Recent rapid increases in right whale (Eubalaena australis) population off southern Brazil. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals, Rio de Janeiro, v. 4, p. 41-47, 2005.
GROCH, K. R.; RENAULT-BRAGA, E.P. A baleia do sul do Brasil: uma gigante em nosso litoral. 1 ed. Imbituba: Carbo, 2021. 136 p.
ICMBio. Área de Proteção Ambiental da Baleia Franca. Disponível em https://www.icmbio.gov.br/apabaleiafranca.
IWC. Annex G. Report of the sub-committee on the comprehensive assessment of whale stocks – in-depth assessments. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, Cambridge, v. 3, Suppl., p. 177-208, 2001.
LODI, L.; BORBIA, M. Baleias, botos e golfinhos do Brasil. Guia de identificação. Rio de Janeiro, Technical, 2013. 480 p.
MOORE, M. J.; KNOWLTON, A. R.; KRAUS, S. D.; MCLELLAN, W. A.; BONDE, R. K. Morphometry, gross morphology and available histopathology in North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) mortalities (1970-2002). Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, Cambridge, v. 6, n. 3, p. 199-214, 2004.
MALLINOWSKI, B. K. Argonautas do Pacífico Ocidental: um relato do empreendedorismo e da aventura dos nativos nos Arquipélagos da Nova Guiné Melanési. 2 ed. São Paulo: Abril Cultural. 1978. 434 p.
MORSE, J. M. Designing funded qualitative research. In: DEZIN, N. K.; LINCOLN, Y. S. (Ed.). Handbook of Qualitative Health Research. 2 ed. Sage Publications, Thousand oaks, 1994. p. 220-225.
PONTALTI, M.; DANIELSKI, M. L. Registros de enredamentos de baleias-franca, Eubalaena australis (Cetacea, Mysticeti), na temporada reprodutiva de 2010 em Santa Catarina, Brasil. Biotemas, Florianópolis, v. 24, n. 2, p. 109-112, 2011.
RENAULT-BRAGA, E. P. Distribuição espaço-temporal da baleia-franca-austral – Eubalaena australis (Desmoulins 1822) – no sul do Brasil. 2014. 115 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Oceanografia Biológica) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande. 2014.
RENAULT-BRAGA, E. P.; GROCH, K. R.; FLORES, P. A. C.; SECCHI, E. R.; DALLA-ROSA, L. Area usage estimation and spatiotemporal variability in distribution patterns of southern right whales, Eubalaena australis, of southern Brazil. Marine Ecology, Berlin, v. 39, e12506, 2018.
RENAULT-BRAGA, E. P.; GROCH, K. R.; SIMÕES-LOPES, P. C. Is there spatial segregation between reproductive groups of southern right whales along the coastline of southern Brazil? Marine Mammal Science, Lawrence, v. 37, n. 3, p. 1008-1021, 2021a.
RENAULT-BRAGA, E. P.; GROCH, K. R.; SIMÕES-LOPES, P. C. Numerical population estimates update for Southern Right Whales in Brazil. In: INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION, 75, 2021, SC/68C/CMP/10. Anais... 2021b. p. 1-8.
SIMÕES-LOPES, P. C.; PALAZZO JR., J. T.; BOTH, M. C.; XIMENEZ, A. Identificação, movimentos e aspectos biológicos da baleia franca austral (Euablaena australis) na costa sul do Brasil. In: REUNIÓN DE TRABAJO DE EXPERTOS EM MAMIFEROS ACUÁTICOS DE AMÉRICA DEL SUR, 3, 1992, Montevidéu. Anales... 1992. p. 62-66.
ZAPPES, C. A.; DA SILVA, C. V.; PONTALTI, M.; DANIELSKI, M. L; DI BENEDITTO, A. P. N. The conflict between the Southern right whale and the costal fisheries on the southern coast of Brazil. Marine Policy, Amsterdam, v. 38, p. 428-437, 2013.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2022 Camila Morais de Medeiros, Carolina Bezamat, Daiana Proença Bezerra, Eduardo Pires Renault-Braga, Fábio Pereira Conceição , Karina Groch, Thaise Lima de Albernaz
![Creative Commons License](http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
After the electronic publication of the manuscript, the authors are entitled, without any restriction, on its contents.
License Creative Commons Atribuição 4.0 Internacional - CC BY
Authors are able to take on additional contracts separately, non-exclusive distribution of the version of the paper published in this journal (ex.: publish in institutional repository or as a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.