Condition of larvae of western rock lobster (Panulirus cygnus) in cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies of the Leeuwin Current off Western Australia
Miao Wang A F , Richard O’Rorke B , Anya M. Waite C , Lynnath E. Beckley D , Peter Thompson E and Andrew G. Jeffs A
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A Leigh Marine Laboratory, Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Box 349, Warkworth 0941, New Zealand.
B School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand.
C School of Environmental Systems Engineering and the Oceans Institute, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.
D School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, South Street, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia.
E Australian Commonwealth Scientific Industrial and Research Organisation, Hobart, Tas. 7000, Australia.
F Corresponding author. Email: miaowfly@gmail.com
Marine and Freshwater Research 66(12) 1158-1167 https://doi.org/10.1071/MF14121
Submitted: 3 May 2014 Accepted: 22 December 2014 Published: 12 May 2015
Abstract
Changes in the offshore oceanographic processes are suspected to be the cause of a recent dramatic decline in the settlement of post-larvae of the Western Australian spiny lobster (Panulirus cygnus), which has greatly reduced the productivity from the world’s second-largest spiny lobster fishery. The present study assessed whether there are differences in the nutritional condition of the larvae of P. cygnus sampled from two pairs of cyclonic eddies (CEs) and anticyclonic eddies (AEs). Morphometric and biochemical analyses were undertaken on the mid–late-stage larvae (VI, VII, VIII) sampled offshore from two pairs of adjacent counter-rotating mesoscale eddies in the Leeuwin Current off Western Australia. The results showed that larvae captured from CEs had greater average total dry mass (P < 0.001) than those from AEs. Stage VIII larvae from CEs contained more protein (P < 0.008) (38.5% ± 5.4 s.e.) and lipid (P < 0.005) (67.2% ± 12.1) than did those from AEs. The possible causes for these differences are uncertain but may be related to differences in water temperatures in CEs v. AEs influencing the ability of phyllosomas to accumulate nutritional reserves.
Additional keywords: eddy, nutritional condition, phyllosoma, spiny lobster.
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