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  • Statistiques de la pêche collective en Lagune Ebrié (1978-1979)

    Ecoutin, J.M.; Bert, A. (1981-04)
    Archives Scientifiques, Centre de Recherches Océanographiques, Abidjan
    A first treatment of the statistical data of 1978 and 1979 on the collective fishing showed a decrease of total catches in the Ebrié Lagoon. The same diminution was found in the amount of smoked-fish collected in two different places of the lagoon. This fall is due to a smaller effort in the lagoon of the purse-seines in the Abidjan area and a decrease of the catches per unit of effort.
  • Compte rendu de la campagne Echobal I n/o Capricorne du 18 âout 1980 au 24 âout 1980

    Caverivière, A. (1981-04)
    Archives Scientifiques, Centre de Recherches Océanographiques, Abidjan
    This paper related an echosounding survey located off Côte d'Ivoire in cold season 1980. Biomass mean for the continental platform (20-125m) was 15 metric tons for one square mile.
  • Étude de la pollution bacterienne en lagune Ebrié

    Pages, J. (1975-07)
    Documents Scientifiques, Centre de Recherches Océanographiques, Abidjan
    Details are presented of a bacteriological study in Ebrié Lagoon (Abidjan-Côte d'Ivoire) conducted during Oct-Dec 1974. Sampling sites are shown, and estimated and confirmed values for coliforms are given. The significance of the values obtained is briefly discussed, but further important factors, such as meteorological conditions and state of the sea, need clarification before definite conclusions can be made.
  • Biomasses du phytoplancton et du zooplancton dans l'Atlantique tropical le long du méridien 1O' W (Résultats de la campagne Capricorne 7314)

    Stretta, J.M. (1975-07)
    Documents Scientifiques, Centre de Recherches Océanographiques, Abidjan
    The standing stock of chlorophyll, the quantities of copepods collected with a 30 liter Niskin bottle and the standing stock of zooplankton collected with a 'Bongo' net were measured from 0 to 200 m depth during a cruise along 10' W from 1' N to 12' S. These parameters are correlated to hydrological conditions measured simultaneously. 6 zonal areas have been delimited and described; the north equatorial convergence, the northern flow of the south equatorial counter-current, the trade winds drift, the south equatorial counter-current and the Benguela's drift.
  • Biologie de Penaeus duorarum (Burkenroad) en Côte d'Ivoire: 2 - ponte et migration

    Garcia, S. (1972-02)
    Documents Scientifiques, Centre de Recherches Océanographiques, Abidjan
    The pink shrimp Penaeus duorarum spawns from 25 to 60m, mostly in summer (October to June). Size at first sexual maturity is 31 mm (carapace length). The observed difference with the Caribbean pink shrimp is analysed. Immature shrimps migrate all year round but a peak migration occurs from January to March (in summer) and is associated with maximum salinities. A secondary peak migration occurs in October corresponding to minimum salinity and maximum river discharge. The action of salinity on migration is discussed and a preponderant action of currents in the process is also suggested. Migration is also related to moon phase, tide and day-night cycles. Migration intensity as expressed by catch per unit of effort is maximum at night, during ebb tide, on new and full moon. Seasonal variation of mean migration size and abundance are related by a negative linear correlation on a logarithmic plot (R = 0.776). This phenomenon is perhaps related to competition for food.
  • Statistiques de pêche des sardiniers ivoiriens - année 1976

    Bouberi, D. (1978-03)
    Série Statistiques, Centre de Recherches Océanographiques, Abidjan
  • Distribution et abondance des larves de thonidés dans l'Atlantique tropico-oriental. Étude des données de 1963 à 1974

    Caverivière, A.; Conand, F.; Suisse de Sainte Claire, E. (1976-12)
    Documents Scientifiques, Centre de Recherches Océanographiques, Abidjan
    From several sources of data, the authors study seasonal variations of larval abundance for five species of tuna in Eastern Tropical Atlantic and its relation to the hydrological conditions. Distributional maps and TS graphs are given.
  • État des stocks pélagiques côtiers en Côte d'Ivoire

    Hem, S. (1976-12)
    Documents Scientifiques, Centre de Recherches Océanographiques, Abidjan
    Evolution of catch and catch by unit effort of the sardine fishing boats (purse seiners) has been examined from 1966 to 1975. The effort data has been calculated with a new computer programme: Crosardi (Soisson et Barbe, 1974). The analysis has been done on the whole stock and in more detail on the east and west stocks of Côte d'Ivoire. The Sardinella eba stock has been analysed separately. Those analyses were done using the general production model (Prodfit; Fox, 1974). The stock of the eastern area of the Côte d'Ivoire seems to be exploited at its maximum level. Nevertheless, the western area stock could be able to support a progressive increase of fishing effort.
  • Biologie de Ethmalosa fimbriata (Bowdich) en Côte d'Ivoire. 2 - Étude de la croissance en lagune par la méthode de Petersen

    Gerlotto, F. (1976-12)
    Documents Scientifiques, Centre de Recherches Océanographiques, Abidjan
    Ethmalosa growth curves (calculated by the least squares method) were determined from weekly samplings in Ebrié Lagoon. In order to obtain more accurate results than with a modal decomposition, the author used directly the modal values of the samples. One-year-old ethmalosa is about 15 cm long (fork length). For older fish, growth data seem to be disturbed by migrations: fish measuring >25 cm do not appear in the lagoon. Ethmalosa would spend the first year of its life in the lagoon, where it hatches and reproduces, and would migrate to the sea during its second year.
  • Croissance et détermination de l'âge par lecture d'écailles d'un poisson plat de Côte d'Ivoire, Cynoglossus canariensis (Steind. 1882)

    Chauvet, C. (1972-02)
    Documents Scientifiques, Centre de Recherches Océanographiques, Abidjan
    Cynoglossus canariensis has a very rapid growth. The rate of the males is 0,36 and the female one is 0,32. The asymptotic size is 55,0cm for the females and 50,5cm for the males. Females and males younger than three years (40cm), which represent 90 per cent of the Côte d'Ivoire stock have a similar growth, so the average equation: Lt=53,5 (1-e -0,34(t+1)) will be used.
  • Copépodes pélagiques du plateau ivoirien. Utilisation de I'analyse des correspondances dans l'étude des variations saisonnières

    Binet, D.; Gaborit, M.; Roux, M. (1972-02)
    Documents Scientifiques, Centre de Recherches Océanographiques, Abidjan
    Several 'analyses factorielles des correspondences' were used with the numerical data of planktonic copepods issued from a 1 year sampling programme at different stations of the Ivorian shelf. The main results were the following: (1) 'Ecological seasons' approximately corresponding to hydrological seasons may be defined for planktonic populations. (2) Each 'season' is characterized by one group of species, whose maximum abundance occurs in this period. (3) The same definition of ecological season is obtained whether all species present are used or whether only the most important ones are used. (4) The first principal axes may be interpreted as temperature and salinity or as the station's distance from shore.
  • Le courant de Lomonosov dans le fond du Golfe de Guinée en mai 1973

    Morlière, A.; Hisard, Ph.; Citeau, J. (1974-06)
    Documents Scientifiques, Centre de Recherches Océanographiques, Abidjan
    A cruise of the R. V. Capricorne in May 1973, in inner part of the gulf of Guinea, allowed the authors to identify the main part of the Atlantic circulation at the longitude of 5 degrees E, between 4 degrees N and 4 degrees S. It gave new data on the termination of the equatorial undercurrent. At the equator, under the westward south equatorial current flows the Atlantic equatorial undercurrent with a maximum eastward velocity of 90 cm/sec at 30 m depth linked to a salinity maximum higher than 36.20 ppt. Below the equatorial undercurrent, about 80-100 m depth, flows a westward current with a velocity as high as 30 cm/sec. At 4 degrees S, the south equatorial countercurrent is well delineated by a high salinity core (more than 36.10 ppt) at 30 m depth with an eastward velocity core of 40 cm/sec. On the contrary, near 3 degrees 30N, a high salinity core (36.10 ppt) flows westwards with a speed of 40 cm/sec at 40 m depth: it is the "return flow" of the undercurrent (Hisard and Moliere 1974). At 4 degrees N the Guinea current carries eastwards surface salinities of 34.50 ppt at 40 cm/sec. Off Cape Lopez (0 degrees 35'S-8 degrees 42'E) the high salinity core of the undercurrent becomes wider near the shore. It is 25m wide offshore, and 70 m wide near the cape. A part of undercurrent water extends northwards, then flows westwards with the subsurface westward circulation in the inner part of the Gulf of Guinea. Another part flows south-southwestwards in a high salinity tongue along the African coast to 4 degrees S. South-west of Cape Lopez, the trades divergence contributes to an upwelling of cold and high salinity water; this water increases at the Cape Lopez front.
  • Note sur les premiers essais de capture du crabe profond Geryon quinquedens en Côte d'Ivoire

    Le Loeuff, P.; Intés, A.; Le Guen, J.C. (1974-06)
    Documents Scientifiques, Centre de Recherches Océanographiques, Abidjan
    First experiments to trap the deep sea red crab Geryon quinquedens off Côte d'Ivoire have had good success. The yields obtained are similar to those observed off the northeastern coast of the United States and off Angola, where commercial fisheries have been developed for some years.
  • Biologie de la phase lagunaire de Penaeus duorarum en Côte d'Ivoire: biométrie et croissance.

    Galois, R. (1974-06)
    Documents Scientifiques, Centre de Recherches Océanographiques, Abidjan
    Principal biometric relations have been calculated for juvenile pink shrimp Penaeus duorarum, of Côte d'Ivoire lagoons. Growth has been studied from weekly sampling using Petersen's method and Von Bertalanffy's equation. Results are very similar to those obtained by the authors working in the same environmental conditions, especially concerning temperature.
  • Variabilité, circulation et chlorophylle dans la région du Dôme d'Angola en février-mars 1971

    Gallardo, Y.; Dandonneau, Y.; Voituriez, B. (1974-06)
    Documents Scientifiques, Centre de Recherches Océanographiques, Abidjan
    In February-March 1971 the hydrological conditions off Angola did not display the thermal dome mapped by Mazeika's averages (1967). Cold water cells observed are connected at the surface to a sinuous boundary between low-salinity coastal waters and high-salinity tropical oceanic waters. That boundary coincides rather regularly with an area where trades and SW winds alternate; photosynthesis growths rapidly in a thermoclinal layer that rises until 10 m of the surface but never outcrops. Below a poor and permanent homogeneous surface layer, chlorophyll concentrations show a distribution which is typical of divergence areas. Geostrophical and measured currents show off a transient process in horizontal and vertical movements, however the general curvature of the circulation is propitious to upwelling. Oxygen oversaturations of about 110%, suggest a moderate potential primary production which confirms slowness and alternation of movements. Also, the regular range of the various chemical and biological levels and moderate chlorophyll concentrations suggest an ecosystem where nutrients supply rapidly equilibrate phytoplankton consumption and not at all a 'phytoplankton bloom' area as that which exists in coastal upwelling. Values of Richardson's number show that instability becomes visible at the bottom of the euphotic layer. An evaluation of the vertical motion is inferred by the peculiar distribution and diurnal alternance of the winds shows that 'doming' structures may be sustained by local meteorological events.
  • Qualitative and quantitative aspects of the food of Ethmalosa fimbriata (Bowdich) in the Ebrié lagoon (Côte d'Ivoire)

    Nieland, H. (1980-06)
    Documents Scientifiques, Centre de Recherches Océanographiques, Abidjan
    The food of Ethmalosa fimbriata in the central part of the Ebrié lagoon, where the salinity is low, consists on limnic phytoplankton. In the region near Abidjan, which is more strongly influenced by coastal water, it consists of marine phyto- and zooplankton. The daily ration of a 12.5 cm fork-length fish is estimated to be between 2 and 3 % of its body weight.
  • Choix d'une unité d'effort de pêche pour les flottilles sardinières sémi-industrielles et artisanales au Sénégal

    Fréon, P. (1980-06)
    Documents Scientifiques, Centre de Recherches Océanographiques, Abidjan
    Different catches per unit of effort available for industrial and artisanal sardinella fisheries of Senegal have been analysed and compared in order to determine whether they are acceptable indices of abundance. Among the four units of fishing effort studied (total number of sets, number of trips, time spent on fishing ground, searching time), the first and the second seem inadequate in the studied fleets. The two other units, particularly the searching time, allow the calculation of catches per unit of effort which best reflect variations in abundance, although they are not completely free of usual deficiencies.
  • Régime alimentaire de la phase lagunaire de Elops lacerta (C.V. 1846)

    Hie Dare, J.P. (1980-06)
    Documents Scientifiques, Centre de Recherches Océanographiques, Abidjan
    Elops lacerta is a juvenil's predator of all the fish species living in the same biotope. its preys follow three systematic orders: 1 - Fishes: they are the most important in the stomachal contents of Elops lacerta, and are dominated by clupeidae, mainly by Ethmalosa fimbriata; 2 - Shrimps: mainly the Peneidae, are not very important; 3 - Molluscs: they are the less important preys and are represented by only one Pelecypoda family: the Corbulidae. This earlier predator feeds rather at night than during the day. It has neither preferential prey nor apparent seasonal variations in its food habits.
  • Recherches des larves de thonides dans l'Atlantique tropical-oriental: campagnes effectuées en 1976-1977 par le N/O Capricorne

    Caverivière, A.; Suisse de Sainte Claire, E. (1980-06)
    Documents Scientifiques, Centre de Recherches Océanographiques, Abidjan
    This study gives the results of oblique plankton hauls (from the sea-surface to the top of the thermocline), made during the dry season (January to March) by oceanographic vessel R.V. Capricorne during three cruises, of tuna larvae research in 1976 and 1977, between the African Coast and the Equator, from 17 degrees W to 9 degrees E.
  • Étude histologique du cycle sexuel de l'albacore (Thunnus albacares) Bonnaterre 1788

    Albaret, J.J. (1979-06)
    Documents Scientifiques, Centre de Recherches Océanographiques, Abidjan
    The evolution of the general microscopic structure of the ovary of Thunnus albacares related to the gonad index, and the ovocyte maturation process were studied. Some stages of the males sexual maturation were characterized.

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