Trends in abundance of marine fishery resources in India examined through dynamic factor analysis

Sathianandan, T V and Kuriakose, Somy and Mini, K G and George, Grinson and Zacharia, P U (2016) Trends in abundance of marine fishery resources in India examined through dynamic factor analysis. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 63 (2). pp. 19-23.

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Abstract

Dynamic factor analysis (DFA) was used to identify common trends to explain the variability for a historical time series data (1980-2010) on all India annual marine fish landings for 16 resource groups. In this study, three common trends were identified for classifying the resource groups. Trend-1 increases gradually and reaches a peak in 1997, decreases sharply until 2001 and then increases further. Landings of carangids were clearly related to trend-1 with positive factor loading magnitude. Trend-1 is important for Bombayduck as well but with negative factor loading. In the case of trend-2, it is declining until 1993 and remains steady with slight fluctuations till 2003 and increases further. Both, silverbellies and pomfrets landings were determined by trend-2 with similar positive factor loadings. All other resources were associated with more than one trend. Trend-3 shows an increasing trend throughout the period with slight fluctuations. Perches, seerfishes, tunnies, flatfishes, crustaceans and molluscs formed a homogenous group associated with both trend-1 and trend-3. These trends were important for elasmobranchs too as they had similar loadings on both trends but with opposite signs. Resource-wise explanations based on the different trends are discussed citing the examples of clupeids, carangids, Bombayduck, pomfrets and silverbellies.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Common trends, Dynamic factor analysis, India, Marine fisheries, Time series
Subjects: Marine Fisheries > Analytical models
Marine Fisheries
Divisions: CMFRI-Kochi > Marine Capture > Fishery Resources Assessment Division
Subject Area > CMFRI > CMFRI-Kochi > Marine Capture > Fishery Resources Assessment Division
CMFRI-Kochi > Marine Capture > Fishery Resources Assessment Division
Subject Area > CMFRI-Kochi > Marine Capture > Fishery Resources Assessment Division
Depositing User: Arun Surendran
Date Deposited: 18 Jul 2016 06:45
Last Modified: 18 Jul 2016 06:45
URI: http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/id/eprint/10934

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