Contrasting physical mechanisms of yellowfin tuna fluctuations between the western and eastern Indian Ocean

Peng LIAN; Le GAO

doi:10.1007/s00343-023-2330-3

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Contrasting physical mechanisms of yellowfin tuna fluctuations between the western and eastern Indian Ocean

Aquaculture and Fisheries | Updated：2026-05-18

- Contrasting physical mechanisms of yellowfin tuna fluctuations between the western and eastern Indian Ocean
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 42, Issue 3, Pages: 960-971(2024)
- Affiliations：
  
  1. Key Laboratory of Ocean Observation and Forecasting and Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  3. Laboratory for Ocean Dynamics and Climate, Laoshan Laboratory, Qingdao 266061, China
- Author bio：
  
  gaole@qdio.ac.cn
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- DOI：10.1007/s00343-023-2330-3
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- Received：30 September 2022，
  
  Accepted：17 November 2022，
  
  Online First：22 February 2023，
  
  Published：01 May 2024
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LIAN Peng,GAO Le.Contrasting physical mechanisms of yellowfin tuna fluctuations between the western and eastern Indian Ocean[J].Journal of Oceanology and Limnology,2024,42(03):960-971.
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LIAN Peng,GAO Le.Contrasting physical mechanisms of yellowfin tuna fluctuations between the western and eastern Indian Ocean[J].Journal of Oceanology and Limnology,2024,42(03):960-971. DOI： 10.1007/s00343-023-2330-3.

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Abstract

As an economically critical pelagic migratory species

yellowfin tuna (

Thunnus

albacores

YFT) is very sensible to physical and environmental conditions

such as sea surface temperature (SST)

ocean heat content (OHC)

and the mixed layer depth (MLD). We investigated the impact of SST

OHC

and MLD on fluctuations of YFT catch in the western/eastern Indian Ocean using the long time series of 63-year environmental and YFT datasets. We found that the impact of SST on YFT was heavily overestimated in the past

and MLD plays a more critical role in the YFT catch fluctuation. When the MLD deepens (

34.8 m)

SST was more influential in predicting the catches of YFT than OHC in the western Indian Ocean

and OHC was more critical to YFT than SST in the eastern Indian Ocean. However

when the MLD shallows (

34.8 m)

MLD was more vital to predict the catch per unit effort (CPUE) of YFT than SST/OHC in the western. After 2000

there was an asynchronous pattern of YFT CPUE induced by higher frequency variations and ocean hiatus of SST/OHC signals in the western and eastern Indian Oceans basins. The impact of the subsurface hiatus may induce the decrease of YFT in the eastern Indian Ocean. The above findings clarified a non-stationary relationship between the environmental factors and catches of YFT and provided new insights into variations in YFT abundance.

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