The catch rates by dhow boats declined from an average of 4.7 kg/trap‐pull in 2003 to 2.7 kg/trap‐pull in 2005 representing a 41% decrease. The grouper, Epinephelus coicodes, was the main species captured, contributing 19.3% and 17.8% to the dhow catch in Kuwait waters and international waters, respectively. 2.6 and 2.5 kg/trap‐pull for dhows fishing in Kuwait's territorial waters and international waters, respectively. Over the duration of the study period, the speedboat catch rates were higher than those of dhow boats, i.e., 3.7 kg/trap‐pull vs. The catch rate, monthly average number of boats operating, and the number of gargoor cleared were estimated for dhow boats fishing in Kuwait's waters and international waters, and speed boats operating in Kuwait waters only. The main landings place was sampled for catch and effort, and fish length‐frequency data from May 2003 to December 2005. This paper describes the status of the gargoor artisanal fishery. The gargoor fishery used to be the nation's most important in terms of value and landings volume, but declines in catch rates have reduced its ranking. Kuwait's fisheries include shrimp trawlers, gill nets, intertidal stake nets, and demersal fish traps, known locally as gargoor. The total number of zooplankton at all stations were 194266 ind/m3 recorded in autumn at station 1, while the lowest number was 6804 ind/ m3 reported during winter at station 3. Seven taxa of copepods were recorded for the first time in the study area. Copepod is the major group of zooplankton in the study area, while calanoid copepod was the most dominant order followed by cyclopoid, harpacticoid and poecilostomatoid. The more abundant copepod and other zooplankton at all stations were, Paracalanus aculeatus, Parvocalanus crassirostris, Acartia (Odontacartia) pacifica, Bestiolina arabica, Polychaets adults and larvae, cirripeds larvae, planktonic bivalves, planktonic gastropods and fish eggs and larvae. 35 taxa were belonging to copepods, while 25 taxa were belonging to other zooplankton. Sixty taxa of zooplankton were identified in the present study. Quantitative and qualitative studies of zooplankton were carried out. Some physical and chemical parameters of the water were measured. Samples were collected by plankton net (120 μm mesh size and 40 cm diameter of mouth aperture). Five stations were chosen: Shatt Al-Basrah, Khor Al-Zubair, Al-Faw and Iraqi marine and coastal water. The Gulf suffers from a “shifting baseline syndrome” (Pauly 1995 Sheppard 1995) and it is difficult to find any meaningful baselines, not only because of ongoing, intensive constructions that cause large-scale alterations of the environment, but also because of several recent episodes of marine mortality from seawater warming.Ībstract Zooplankton composition and abundance of marine and brackish water, Southern Iraq were studied seasonally from winter to autumn 2010. It is changing rapidly, by developments which include construction, substantial coastline alterations, habitat loss, creation of beds of shifting or suspended sediments, and temperature and salinity changes in restricted water flows along the coast, as well as by climate warming. Thriving economic activity has, over the past few decades, begun to exert significant pressure on the Gulf’s marine environment. 16.1) undergoing rapid economic growth involving substantial construction along shores and offshore regions, underpinned by its oil and gas industry, and by wealth derived from financial centres. It is shallow, and bordered by several wealthy states (Fig. The Gulf is located in a subtropical, hyper-arid region.
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