Title
Commercial traceability of Arapaima spp. fisheries in the Amazon basin: Can biogeochemical tags be useful
Date Issued
26 April 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Pereira L.A.
Santos R.V.
Hauser M.
Carvajal F.
Pecheyran C.
Bérail S.
Pouilly M.
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Publisher(s)
Copernicus GmbH
Abstract
The development of analytical tools to determine the origin of fishes is useful to better understand patterns of habitat use and to monitor, manage, and control fisheries, including certification of food origin. The application of isotopic analyses to study calcified structures of fishes (scales, vertebrae, and otoliths) may provide robust information about the fish geographic origin and environmental living conditions. In this study, we used Sr and C isotopic markers recorded in otoliths of wild and farmed commercialized pirarucu (<i>Arapaima</i> spp.) to evaluate their prediction potential to trace the fishes origin. Wild and farmed fish specimens, as well as food used for feeding pirarucu in captivity, were collected from different sites. Isotope composition of otoliths performed by isotope-ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS; <span classCombining double low line"inline-formula"><i>'</i>13C</span>) and femtosecond laser ablation multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LAfs-MC-ICPMS; <span classCombining double low line"inline-formula">87Srĝ•86Sr</span>) were compared to the isotopic composition of water and of the food given to the fishes in the farms. Wild fish specimens that lived in environments with the largest fluctuation of river water Sr isotope ratios over time presented the largest Sr isotope variations in otoliths. A quadratic discriminant analysis on otolith isotopic composition provided 58 % of correct classification for fish production (wild and farmed) and 76 % of correct classification for the fish region. Classification accuracy for region varied between 100 % and 29 % for the Madeira and the Lower Amazon fishes, respectively. Overall, this preliminary trial is not yet fully developed to be applied as a commercial traceability tool. However, given the importance of <i>Arapaima</i> spp. for food security and the generation of economic resources for millions of people in the Amazon basin, further analyses are needed to increase the discrimination performance of these biogeographical tags.
Start page
1781
End page
1797
Volume
16
Issue
8
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Métodos de investigación bioquímica
Ingeniería ambiental y geológica
Agricultura, Silvicultura, Pesquería
Publication version
Version of Record
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85065038807
Source
Biogeosciences
ISSN of the container
1726-4170
DOI of the container
10.5194/bg-16-1781-2019
Sponsor(s)
Acknowledgements. This manuscript is the result of the masters degree of Luciana Alves Pereira in the Graduate Program in Ecology at the University of Brasília. The authors would like to thank CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e tec-nológico) for the financial support to RVS (310641/2014-4 and 428843/2016-6); the University of Brasília for the financial publication support; the Laboratory of Ichthyology and Fishery at Univer-sidade Federal de Rondônia, Porto Velho; the Mamirauá Institute for the logistical support on field sampling; the IRD (Institute pour Recherche et Development); the Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour/CNRS,LIABLE-IPREM, Pau, France; the Geochronology and Isotope Geochemistry Laboratory of University of Brasília; and Wikus Jordan and an anonymous referee for the review and input to this paper.
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