IRD Poissons NC Chalutage

Michel Kulbicki1, Fiat Sylvie2, Gérard Mou-Tham3

1 IRD, Université de Perpignan, 66000, Perpignan, France; 2 IRD, 98848, Nouméa, New Caledonia; 3 IRD, B.P.A5, 98848, Nouméa, New Caledonia

Corresponding author(s): Michel Kulbicki (michel.kublicki@ird.fr), Fiat Sylvie (sylvie.fiat@ird.fr)

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Resource Citation

Wantiez L., Kulbicki M. 1991 - Les pêches exploratoires au chalut en baie de St. Vincent (Nouvelle-Calédonie). Rapp. Sci. Tech. Sci. Mer Biol. Mar. ORSTOM Nouméa, 60 : 73 p.

Abstract

These records are from experimental trawls in New Caledonia between 1984 and 1990 (WANTIEZ L., 1992 Les poissons des fonds meubles du lagon Nord et de la Baie de St Vincent de Nouvelle Calédonie. Description des peuplements. Structure et fonctionnement des communautés. Thèse Doct. Université Aix-Marseille II : 444 p.). Several types of trawl nets were used (fish, shrimp and beam trawls). All species within a trawl were identified to the nearest taxonomic level available at that time. Changes in species names were later made according to Fricke et al. 2011 (Fricke R., Kulbicki M., Wantiez L. 2011 Checklist of the fishes of New Caledonia. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A, Neue Serie 4: 341–463; Stuttgart, 30.IV.2011). Specimens are deposited at the MNHN in Paris and in the IRD local fish collection of Nouméa.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, fish, coastal, trawl, fishing, New-Caledonia, soft bottom

General description

Purpose: Création d'une base de donnée pérenne qui soit facilement accessible et mise à disposition de l'INPN / Ifrecor et du GBIF

Project details

Project title: Etude de l'ichtyofaune de Nouvelle-Calédonie
Personnel: Michel Kulbicki
Funding: Most funding (>80%) came from IRD (at the time ORSTOM) on internal funds. Additional funding was provided by the local government of New Caledonia (through the program Zoneco) and a PhD scholarship was also provided by the local government for Mr. Laurent Wantiez to analyse this data
Study area descriptions/descriptor: Samples were performed in three different areas:
1- St Vincent Bay : a well protected bay approx. 50 km north of Noumea. The bay is approx. 20 km x 15 km. This bay is rather shallow (max depth 30 m) and comprises 2 entities, the north and the south bay. The north bay is very shallow (less than 15m) and heavily silted. The south bay is deeper and its bottom is made of slightly muddy sand with patches of clear sand or gravel.
2- the northern New Caledonia lagoon: the area is only sheltered by the barrier reef. The size of this lagoon is approx. 150 km x 40 km. Depth varies from 20 to 60m with an average around 35m. The bottoms are very varied ranging from hard flat rocky bottom to slightly muddy sand, and even some muddy areas near the mouth of the river Diahot. However a majority of the bottom are made of medium size grey sand.
3- Chesterfield: some trawling was performed in the Chesterfield and Landsdown areas, but we encountered many technical problems which considerably limited the catch. The bottom was mainly rocky with little sand or debris.
Design description: In the bay of St Vincent there were first some exploratory trawls, mainly with shrimp trawls. The entire bay and its mouths were sampled with over 100 trawls. In 1989 monthly stations were set in the southern and northern bay.
In the northern lagoon a first expedition explored thearea with approx. 100 trawls. Interesting signs of stocks of Amusium bailloti, a tropical scallop, were discovered. A second and third campaign were then made to estimate if the stock of this scallop could be important enough for a fishery.
In the Chesterfield, only a limited number of trawls were made, because the bottoms were covered with large boulders of fossil coral which destroyed the trawl nets.

Data published through GBIF: http://lagplon.ird.nc:8080/ipt/resource.do?r=poissons_nc_chalutage

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: bony fish
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopteri

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Elasmobranchii  Chondrichthyes (shark and rays)
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Elasmobranchii
Common names: Animal

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: New Caledonia, northern lagoon (north and north-east of Poum)and St Vincent Bay (sw lagoon, north of Noumea))
Coordinates: 24°0'0''S and 18°0'0''S Latitude; 162°0'0''E and 168°0'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 6 décembre 1984 - 20 décembre 1989

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: IRD Poissons
Collection name: IRD Poissons NC Chalut
Collection identifier: ird_poissons_chalut
Specimen preservation method: Alcohol

Methods

Method step description: for each trawl the start and end position as well as start and ending time were recorded. For each trawl the catch was sorted per species and the weight and number of individuals were recorded for each species. New records were preserved in alcohol and sent to either the MNHN museum in Paris or kept in a local collection at IRD Noumea (New Caledonia).
Details on the rigs and sampling designs can be found in:

WANTIEZ L., 1992 Les poissons des fonds meubles du lagon Nord et de la Baie de St Vincent de Nouvelle Calédonie. Description des peuplements. Structure et fonctionnement des communautés. Thèse Doct. Université Aix-Marseille II : 444 p.

Wantiez L., Kulbicki M. 1991 - Les pêches exploratoires au chalut en baie de St. Vincent (Nouvelle-Calédonie). Rapp. Sci. Tech. Sci. Mer Biol. Mar. ORSTOM Nouméa, 60 : 73 p. 

Kulbicki M., Wantiez L. 1990 - Comparison between fish bycatch from shrimp trawlnet and visual censuses in St. Vincent Bay, New Caledonia. Fishery Bulletin 88 : 667-675.

Kulbicki M., Wantiez L. 1990 - Variation in the fish catch composition in the Bay of St. Vincent, New Caledonia, as determined by experimental trawling. Aust. J. Mar. Fresh. Res. 41 : 121-144.

Kulbicki M., Baillon N., Morize E., Thollot P. 1990 - Campagne Corail 1 de chalutage exploratoire aux îles Chesterfield et à Lansdowne (N.O. Alis, 15 août - 4 sept. 1988) ORSTOM Nouméa. Rapp. Sci. Tech. Sci. Mer Biol. Mar. 56 : 27 p.
Study extent description: New Caledonia
from 1984 to 1989
Sampling description: T. : trawls

Region	Location	Shrimp T.    Beam T. Fish T.	All trawls
Chesterfield	Bellona	    11	      23	0	34
Chesterfield	Main	     0	       0	6	6
Chesterfield	Lansdowne    0	       9	6	15
Chesterfield	ALL	    11	       32	12	55
North Lagoon	Diahot	     3   	0	0	3
North Lagoon	Est-Belep	85	0	27	112
North Lagoon	Nord-Pott	25	0	0	25
North Lagoon	Ouest-Belep	31	0	0	31
North Lagoon	Sud-Paaba	16	0	1	17
North Lagoon	ALL	       160	0	28	188
StVincent	Baie-Nord	71	0	22	93
StVincent	Baie-Sud	66	0	22	88
StVincent 	All	       137	0	44	181
All	All	               308	32	84	424
Quality control description: Shrimp and fish trawls were cross checked, both being used over the same trawling track

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive IRD Poissons NC Chalutage
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://lagplon.ird.nc:8080/ipt/archive.do?r=poissons_nc_chalutage
Publication date of data: 2016-07-12
Language: French
Licenses of use: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CCZero 1.0 License http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2016-03-25
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Kulbicki M., Wantiez L. 1990 - Comparison between fish bycatch from shrimp trawlnet and visual censuses in St. Vincent Bay, New Caledonia. Fishery Bulletin 88 : 667-675.
Kulbicki M., Wantiez L. 1990 - Variation in the fish catch composition in the Bay of St. Vincent, New Caledonia, as determined by experimental trawling. Aust. J. Mar. Fresh. Res. 41 : 121-144.
Kulbicki M., Baillon N., Morize E., Thollot P. 1990 - Campagne Corail 1 de chalutage exploratoire aux îles Chesterfield et à Lansdowne (N.O. Alis, 15 août - 4 sept. 1988) ORSTOM Nouméa. Rapp. Sci. Tech. Sci. Mer Biol. Mar. 56 : 27 p.