Volume 62
Abundance and Distribution of Queen Conch (Strombus gigas) Veligers of Quintana Roo, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Authors
Montserrat Bravo Castro, H,; Montero Muñoz, J.L,; Aldana Aranda, D. Download PDF Open PDF in BrowserOther Information
Date: November, 2009
Pages: 438-440
Event: Proceedings of the Sixty -Second Annual Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute
City: Cumaná
Country: Venezuela
Abstract
In order to study the distribution and abundance of Strombus gigas (Linné 1758) larvae were collected every month from January to December 2005 in twelve sites of Quintana Roo. Plankton tows were made with a conical net of 500 ?m mesh-size. During the sample period, 417 veliger were identify. Larvae were more abundant during August, with 179 larvae (42.9%) and they were lest abundant in April, with 16 larvae (3.83 %). Small larvae (200 to 320 ?m) were more abundant in August. Analysis of Correspondence GLM was different significantly between months (p = 0.005388). High abundance of small sizes of larvae suggests that Quintana Roo North area could be a possible site of production of Strombus gigas larvae. It could be related to presence of a adult stock at Puerto Morelos, in the Quintana Roo North area in Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico