Journal article
Resilience to the interactive effects of climate change and discard stress in the commercially important blue swimmer crab (Portunus armatus)
Marine Environmental Research, Vol.159, p.105009
07/2020
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Abstract
Globally, millions of people depend on nutritional benefits from seafood consumption, but few studies have tested for effects of near-future climate change on seafood health and quality. Quantitative assessments of the interactive effects of climate change and discarding of fisheries resources are also lacking, despite ~10% of global catches being discarded annually. Utilising the harvested blue swimmer crab (Portunus armatus), we experimentally tested the effects of near-future temperature and salinity treatments under simulated capture and discarding on a suite of health and nutritional quality parameters. We show that nutritional quality (protein, lipids, moisture content and fatty acid composition) was not significantly affected by near-future climate change. Further, stress biomarkers (catalase and glutathione S-transferases activity and glycogen content) did not differ significantly among treatments following simulated capture and discarding. These results support the inherent resilience of P. armatus to short-term environmental change, and indicate that negative physiological responses associated with discarding may not be exacerbated in a future ocean. We suggest that harvested estuarine species, and thus the industries and food security they underpin, may be resilient to the future effects of climate change due to their adaptation to naturally variable habitats. [Display omitted] •Effects of climate change and discarding were assessed simultaneously.•Crab nutritional quality was not significantly affected by future climate change.•Climate change did not exacerbate negative stress responses to discarding.
Details
- Title
- Resilience to the interactive effects of climate change and discard stress in the commercially important blue swimmer crab (Portunus armatus)
- Creators
- Curtis Champion - New South Wales. Department of Primary IndustriesMatt K Broadhurst - Southern Cross UniversityEndurance E Ewere - Southern Cross UniversityKirsten Benkendorff - Southern Cross UniversityPeter Butcherine - Southern Cross UniversityKennedy Wolfe - University of QueenslandMelinda A Coleman - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Marine Environmental Research, Vol.159, p.105009
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Identifiers
- 991012866599902368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Science and Engineering; Marine Ecology Research Centre; School of Environment, Science and Engineering; National Marine Science Centre; Science
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article