Author: Sophie Pamerlon
Keywords: Occurrence, Population density, population distribution, catch effort, salmo salar, salmon

Abundances and biological traits of the juveniles salmon sampled in the survey of Salmon abundance Indices in the Bresle river (France)

Quentin Josset^1, Jérôme Lentieul^1, Aurélie Flesselle^2, Tony Macquet^3, Laurent Petit^1, Laurent Beaulaton^4, Frédéric Marchand^5, GBIF France^6

1 AFB DRED, INRA U3E, Pôle AFB-INRA-Agrocampus Ouest-UPPA pour la gestion des migrateurs amphihalins dans leur environnement, Rue des Fontaines, 76260, Eu, France; 2 INRA U3E, Pôle AFB-INRA-Agrocampus Ouest-UPPA pour la gestion des migrateurs amphihalins dans leur environnement, Rue des Fontaines, 76260, Eu, France; 3 EPTB Bresle, Rue des Fontaines, 76260, Eu, France; 4 AFB DRED, INRA U3E, Pôle AFB-INRA-Agrocampus Ouest-UPPA pour la gestion des migrateurs amphihalins dans leur environnement, 65 rue Saint Brieuc, 35042, Rennes, France; 5 INRA U3E, Pôle AFB-INRA-Agrocampus Ouest-UPPA pour la gestion des migrateurs amphihalins dans leur environnement, 65 rue de St Brieuc, CS 84215, 35042, Rennes, France; 6 GBIF France, 43 rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France

Corresponding author(s): Quentin Josset (quentin.josset@afbiodiversite.fr)Jérôme Lentieul (jerome.lentieul@afbiodiversite.fr)Aurélie Flesselle (aurelie.flesselle@inra.fr)Tony MacquetLaurent PetitLaurent Beaulaton (laurent.beaulaton@afbiodiversite.fr), Frédéric Marchand (frederic.marchand@inra.fr)

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Resource Citation

Josset Q, Lentieul J, Flesselle A, Macquet T, Petit L, Beaulaton L (2019): Abundances and biological traits of the juveniles salmon sampled in the survey of Salmon abundance Indices in the Bresle river (France). v1.1. Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA). Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.gbif.fr/resource?r=inra_rennes_bresle&v=1.1

Abstract

A survey started in 2016 is conducted every year in early autumn (September to early october) to quantify the abundance of juvenile Atlantic salmon in the Bresle In Normandy. The electrofishing protocol of Prévost and Baglinière (1995) is used. It targets Atlantic salmon young of the year (0+ parr), but older fish (juvenile salmon ≥1+) are also caught and included in this dataset. Sampling is restricted to areas with shallow running water flowing on coarse bottom substrate, i.e. the preferred habitat of young of the year salmon. The data consist of abundance indices and biological traits measured on the fish sampled: length, weight and age. The latter is ascertained from scale samples taken from the fish which size does not allow to determine their age unambiguously.
The survey is carried out under the Research Observatory on Diadromes Fishes in Coastal Streamss (ERO DiaPFC) program. The data are stored in the database of the ERO. They are used to develop predictive models and tools for providing scientific advice to improve the management of this heritage species.

Keywords: Occurrence, Population density, population distribution, catch effort, salmo salar, salmon

General description

Additional information: This data set is intended to be updated annually.

Project details

Project title: ORE-DiaPFC Observatoire de Recherche en Environnement des poissons diadromes sur les Petits Fleuves Côtiers  - ERO DiaPFC Ecological  Research Observatory on Diadromous Fish in coastal streams
Personnel: Etienne Prévost
Funding: INRA
Study area descriptions/descriptor: ERO DiaPFC is a Research Infrastructure based on three coastal streams of the Atlantic and Channel coast of France: the Bresle and the Oir in Normandy, the Scorff in Brittany and the Nivelle in the Pays Basque 
Design description: The issue of 'Research Observatory on Diadromes Fish in Coastal Rivers (ORE DiaPFC) is to study the evolution of diadromous fish populations as a result of environmental changes (climate change and changes related to agriculture ) that affect these rivers.

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.gbif.fr/resource?r=inra_rennes_bresle

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Species: Salmo salar

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The Bresle river in Normandy (France).
Coordinates: 49°44'13.2''N and 50°7'51.6''N Latitude; 1°17'6''E and 1°58'8.4''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: October 6, 2016 - September 12, 2018

Natural collections description

Collection name: Colisa - Collection of Ichtyological Samples
Collection identifier: https://colisa.fr/
Specimen preservation method: Dried
Specimen preservation method: No treatment

Methods

Method step description: 
- . 	Age is verified from scale reading according to standard methods described by (Baglinière and Le Louarn, 1987) and (Richard and Bagliniere, 1990).
- . 	Fish capture was carried out with a backpack electrofishing equipment. The same gear was used since the beginning of the data collection, namely a Martin Pêcheur from DREAM Electronique, It is tuned to produce a pulsed DC with a 400 Hz frequency, 250-300 volts and a square-waveform between 4 and 10% duty cycle. Fishing is operated according to the following steps : 1. Two large dip-nets with metal frames are placed facing the current, lying on the bottom, and kept at a fixed position. 2. The anode scans an area of about 4-5 m upstream of the dip-nets in the vein of water filtered by them. 3. Fish attracted by the anode and shocked go down into the nets guided by the electrode and driven by the water flow. If necessary, the fish stuck on the bottom or in aquatic vegetation are recovered by a small hand net. 4. Individuals are transferred into a bucket previously filled with water. 5. The whole team moves laterally several meters out of the area that has just been disturbed by the electric field, the carrier of the electrofishing gear taking care of not to step on the area he will next explore with the anode. When a bank is reached, the progression is a few meters upstream. Then steps 1-5 are repeatedThe sampling at a given site stops after 5 minutes of actual fishing – i.e. the duration when the electric field is applied in the water - measured directly on the counter of the electric fishing equipment. Juvenile abundance is quantified by the number of individuals captured for a unit effort (5 minutes of fishing under the conditions specified above). Biometric measurement of the fish are recorded after their anesthesia with benzocaïne. The fish length is measured from the tip of the mouth to the fork of the caudal fin (1 millimeter precision). Fish are then weighed (0.2 g precision) and maturity status is assessed by a gentle pressure on the belly that allows to get sperm in mature males. All the fish sampled are then released in their original site. 
Study extent description: Bresle river, CdSandre=G01-0400 Source latitude and longitude : 49.6909, 1.7498 Last confluence point latitude and longitude : 50.0644, 1.37 The Bresle is a small coastal river that flows into the English Channel, in the commune of Le Tréport. 68.1 km separate in a straight line its source, in the commune of Abancourt in Oise (60) from its mouth. However, the particular hydrology of limestone substratum rivers, as well as the multiplication throughout the history of mills and other structures along its course, more than doubles the length of the actual watercourse. The river drains a watershed of nearly 748 km², composed mainly of a chalky substrate dating back to the upper Cretaceous. The basin has historically been marked by the glass industry, but also by the paper industry, as well as by gravel extraction. Agricultural practices that were once mainly focused on dairy farming and grazing are now shifting towards the production of maize, protein crops for livestock, and potatoes. Migratory salmonids can now reach the municipality of Saint-Germain-sur-Bresle, just over 50 km from the sea.
Sampling description: In the Bresle, sampling is conducted at 8 sites spread along the mainstem in the area of the hydrographic network colonized by Atlantic salmon. The sites are visited in 3 years, 2 in the first year, 4 in the second and 2 in the third year.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Abundances and biological traits of the juveniles salmon sampled in the survey of Salmon abundance Indices in the Bresle river (France)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.gbif.fr/archive.do?r=inra_rennes_bresle
Publication date of data: 2019-11-04
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2019-09-20
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Prévost E., Baglinière J.-L., 1995. Présentation et premiers éléments de mise au point d'une méthode simple d'évaluation du recrutement en juvéniles de saumon atlantique (Salmo salar) de l'année en eau courante, p. 39-48. In Gascuel D., Durand J.L., Fonteneau A., (Eds.) Les recherches françaises en évaluation quantitative et modélisation des ressources et des systèmes halieutiques. Colloques et séminaires, ORSTOM éditions, Paris.
Prévost E., Nihouarn A., 1999. Relation entre indicateur d'abondance de type CPUE et estimation de densité par enlèvements successifs pour les juvéniles de saumon atlantique (Salmo salar L.) de l'année. Bull. Fr. Pêche Piscic., 352 : 19-30.
Baglinière, J. L., and Le Louarn, H. 1987. Caractéristiques scalimétriques des principales espèces de poissons d’eau douce de France. Bulletin Français de la Pêche et de la Pisciculture: 1–39.
Richard, A., and Bagliniere, J. L. 1990. Description et interprétation des écailles de truites de mer (Salmo trutta L.) de deux rivières de Basse-Normandie : l’Orne et la Touques. Bulletin Français de la Pêche et de la Pisciculture: 239–257.