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Modeling a habitat suitability index for the eastern fall cohort of Ommastrephes bartramii in the central North Pacific Ocean

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The eastern fall cohort of the neon flying squid, Ommastrephes bartramii, has been commercially exploited by the Chinese squid jigging fleet in the central North Pacific Ocean since the late 1990s. To understand and identify their optimal habitat, we have developed a habitat suitability index (HSI) model using two potential important environmental variables — sea surface temperature (SST) and sea surface height anomaly (SSHA) — and fishery data from the main fishing ground (165°–180°E) during June and July of 1999–2003. A geometric mean model (GMM), minimum model (MM) and arithmetic weighted model (AWM) with different weights were compared and the best HSI model was selected using Akaike’s information criterion (AIC). The performance of the developed HSI model was evaluated using fishery data for 2004. This study suggests that the highest catch per unit effort (CPUE) and fishing effort are closely related to SST and SSHA. The best SST- and SSHA-based suitability index (SI) regression models were SISST-based = 0.7SIeffort-SST + 0.3 SICPUE-SST, and SISSHA-based = 0.5SIeffort-SSHA + 0.5SICPUE-SSHA, respectively, showing that fishing effort is more important than CPUE in the estimation of SI. The best HSI model was the AWM, defined as HSI=0.3SISST-based+ 0.7SISSHA-based, indicating that SSHA is more important than SST in estimating the HSI of squid. In 2004, monthly HSI values greater than 0.6 coincided with the distribution of productive fishing ground and high CPUE in June and July, suggesting that the models perform well. The proposed model provides an important tool in our efforts to develop forecasting capacity of squid spatial dynamics.

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  1. College of Marine Sciences Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, 201306, China

    **njun Chen  (陈新军), Siquan Tian  (田思泉) & Bilin Liu  (刘必林)

  2. The Key laboratory of Shanghai Education Commission for Oceanic Fisheries Resources Exploitation, Shanghai, 201306, China

    **njun Chen  (陈新军), Siquan Tian  (田思泉) & Bilin Liu  (刘必林)

  3. The Key Laboratory of Sustainable Exploitation of Oceanic Fisheries Resources (Shanghai Ocean University), Ministry of Education, Shanghai, 201306, China

    **njun Chen  (陈新军), Siquan Tian  (田思泉), Bilin Liu  (刘必林) & Yong Chen  (陈勇)

  4. School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME, 04469, USA

    Yong Chen  (陈勇)

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Supported by the PhD Programs Foundation of Ministry of Education of China (No. 20093104110002), the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) (Nos. 2007AA092201, 2007AA092202), the National Natural Science Foundation (No. NSFC40876090) and the Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project (No. S30702). Y. Chen’s involvement in the project was partially supported by the Shanghai Dongfang Scholar Program

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Chen, X., Tian, S., Liu, B. et al. Modeling a habitat suitability index for the eastern fall cohort of Ommastrephes bartramii in the central North Pacific Ocean. Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 29, 493–504 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-011-0058-y

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