A codeveloped management tool to determine harvest limits of introduced mud crabs, Scylla serrata (Forskål, 1775), within a Native Hawaiian fishpond
Kaleonani K. C. Hurley A E , Maia Sosa Kapur B , Margaret Siple C , Keli‘iahonui Kotubetey D , A. Hi‘ilei Kawelo D and Robert J. Toonen A
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A Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 46-007 Lilipuna Road, Kāne‘ohe, HI 96744, USA.
B School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences, University of Washington, 1122 NE Boat Street, Seattle, WA 98105, USA.
C Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
D Paepae o He‘eia, Kāne‘ohe, HI 96744, USA.
E Corresponding author. Email: hurleyk@hawaii.edu
Pacific Conservation Biology 27(4) 418-431 https://doi.org/10.1071/PC20023
Submitted: 25 February 2020 Accepted: 29 September 2020 Published: 30 October 2020
Journal Compilation © CSIRO 2021 Open Access CC BY-NC-ND
Abstract
Hawaiian fishponds, or loko i‘a, are ancient aquaculture systems and models of sustainable aquatic resource management from traditional Native Hawaiian harvest practices. Of the 488 fishponds documented in ancient Hawai‘i, only 38 are currently actively managed. Building on Indigenous and local knowledge, fishponds are being adapted to current community needs. Functional fishponds perpetuate culture, improve food security, enhance ecosystem services and transform conservation biology through Indigenous perspectives. Here we examine how Indigenous practices effectively maintain sustainable harvest of an introduced, but economically important, crab species, the mud crab, Scylla serrata (Forskål 1775). The State of Hawai‘i has only a size limit, and no bag limits, for this species. With Indigenous management in a Hawaiian fishpond, limits are set and enforced in response to fluctuations in catch. We used a mark–recapture experiment to parameterise a size-structured population model, which we used to investigate the impact of changing harvest rates. Throughout the study period of 2017–20, the mean number of crabs per harvest was 28 individuals (s.d. = 7) and average catch per unit effort was 0.20 crabs per trap-hour (s.d. = 0.054). During winter, catch per unit effort was lower but mean crab size was larger than during summer. Model simulations indicated that current Indigenous practices are less likely to cause a decline in population growth rate than a strict size limit. Using information from Indigenous harvest practices and the mark–recapture study, we codeveloped a versatile crab population model that can be tailored to changing management objectives.
Keywords: aquaculture, conservation biology, crab fishery, food security, Hawaiian fishponds, mark–recapture, mud crab, non-native species, Scylla serrata, size-based model.
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