DATASET

GMIS - Favourable feeding habitat of skipjack tuna (SKJT) Monthly 1998-2017 (frequency of occurence, %)

Collection: GMIS : Global Marine Information System 

Description

The favourable feeding habitat of skipjack tuna is daily identified linking their ecological traits with environmental variables from satellite remote sensing and physical ocean models. The feeding habitat is mostly related to the occurrence of productive oceanic features (such as eddies) that are detected by satellite sensors of ocean colour (chlorophyll-a fronts). The physical variables used are sea surface temperature, sea surface salinity, sea surface current, sea surface dissolved oxygen, mixed layer depth and sea surface height anomaly. More information: https://fishreg.jrc.ec.europa.eu/fish-habitat, Peer-reviewed publication: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2017.00315/full

Contact

Email
jrc-emis (at) ec.europa.eu

Contributors

How to cite

Druon, Jean-Noel (2019): GMIS - Favourable feeding habitat of skipjack tuna (SKJT) Monthly 1998-2017 (frequency of occurence, %). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/98b2254b-aca4-4f0b-9777-4814d1e635ad

Keywords

climate change Feeding Habitat GIS digital format marine environment marine monitoring Marine protected area ocean color Ocean model satellite observations Skipjack tuna

Data access

GMIS - Download access (GMIS_skipjack_tuna)
URL 
  • Direct NetCDF download

Publications

Publication
Skipjack tuna availability for purse seine fisheries is driven by suitable feeding habitat dynamics in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans
Druon, J., Chassot, E., Murua, H. and Lopez, J., Skipjack tuna availability for purse seine fisheries is driven by suitable feeding habitat dynamics in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE, 2017, ISSN 2296-7745, 4, p. 315, JRC107143.

Spatial coverage

Type Value
GML
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GML
<gml:Polygon xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml/3.2">  <gml:exterior>    <gml:LinearRing>      <gml:posList>-30 70 42 70 42 10 -30 10 -30 70</gml:posList>    </gml:LinearRing>  </gml:exterior></gml:Polygon>
WKT
POLYGON ((-30 70, 42 70, 42 10, -30 10, -30 70))

Temporal coverage

From date To date
1998-01-01 2018-12-31

Lineage information

General information: Model performance is assessed against the distance of presence data to closest habitat. For skipjack tuna, 75% of observations related to free-swimming schools are closer than 38.5 km of favourable feeding habitat (n = 7110, less than 90 km in the Atlantic [n = 2806] and less than 5 km in the Indian Ocean [n = 4304]). For skipjack tuna, 75% of observations related to fishing aggregating devices are closer than 42.2 km of favourable feeding habitat (n = 30413, less than 200 km in the Atlantic [n = 3455] and less than 22 km in the Indian Ocean [n = 26958]).

Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Created date
2020-11-23
Modified date
2020-11-23
Issued date
2019-07-09
Landing page
http://gmis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ 
Language(s)
English
Data theme(s)
Environment
Update frequency
unknown
Identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/98b2254b-aca4-4f0b-9777-4814d1e635ad
Popularity