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Year 2026, Issue: Advanced Online Publication, 90 - 106, 16.03.2026

Jorge A. Rosales-Casian

https://doi.org/10.3153/AR26009
https://izlik.org/JA85TU42ZL

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References

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  • Adame-Fraire, F.M. (2015). Composición y abundancia estacionales de las especies de peces en el Mercado de Mariscos de Ensenada, B.C., durante 2013-2014. Bachelor's thesis. Zacatecas, Zacatecas: Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas. 39p.
  • Allen, L.G., Pondella, D.J. II., Horn, M.H. (Eds.). (2006). The ecology of marine Fishes: California and adjacent waters. University of California Press, Berkeley. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520932470
  • Álvarez-Borrego, S. (2004). Nutrient and phytoplankton dynamics in a coastal lagoon strongly affected by coastal upwelling. Ciencias Marinas, 30, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.7773/cm.v30i1A.2510
  • Barton, E.D., Argote, M.L. (1980). Hydrographic variability in an upwelling area off northern Baja California in June 1976. Journal of Marine Research, 38(4), 631–649.
  • Butler, J.L., Love, M.S., Laidig, T.E. (2012). A guide to the rockfishes, thornyheads, and scorpionfishes of the Northeast Pacific. University of California Press, Berkeley.
  • Castillo-Chávez, J.A. (2014). El valor potencial del megapuerto de Punta Colonet. Ciudad de México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Bachelor thesis, 107p.
  • DOF, Diario Oficial de la Federación. (2008). Convocatoria para participar en el concurso cuyo objetivo es el otorgamiento simultáneo de una concesión para la construcción, operación y explotación de una Vía General de Comunicación Ferroviaria que contemplará la o las rutas con punto de origen Bahía Colonet, Ensenada, Baja California, México. DOF: 02/09/2008.
  • Enciso-Enciso, C., Arizmendi-Rodríguez, D., Zúñiga-Flores, M., Ruíz-Domínguez, M., Álvarez-Trasviña, E. (2025). Assessment and management of the Gulf corvina Cynoscion othonopterus (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) in the Upper Gulf of California. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 253(4), 594–606. https://doi.org/10.3856/vol53-issue4-fulltext-3356 Froeschke, B., Allen, L.G., Pondella, D.J. (2007). Life History and Courtship Behaviour of Black Perch, Embiotoca jacksoni (Teleostomi: Embiotocidae), from Southern California. Pacific Science, 61(4), 21–531. https://doi.org/10.2984/1534-6188(2007)61[521:LHACBO]2.0.CO;2
  • Hammann, M.G., Rosales-Casián, J.A. (1990). Taxonomía y estructura de la comunidad de peces del Estero de Punta Banda y Bahía de Todos Santos, Baja California, México. Pages 153–192 in J. de la Rosas Vélez and F. González Farías, eds. Temas de oceanografía biológica en México. Ensenada, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California.
  • Heath, G.J. (2001-2004). Colnett: Una colonia sueca en el Distrito Norte de Baja California, 1888-1892. Calafia Nueva Época, 1(1-8): http://iih.tij.uabc.mx/iihDigital.html#calafia Horn, M.H., Allen, L.G., Lea, R.N. (2006). Biogeography. Pages 3–25 in L.G. Allen, D. J. Pondella, and M. H. Horn, eds. The Ecology of Marine Fishes, California and Adjacent Waters. Berkeley, University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520932470
  • Humann, P., Deloach, N. (2004). Reef fish identification: Baja to Panama. Jacksonville, Florida: New World Publications, 343p. ISBN: 9781878348388.
  • Johnson, D.W., Stirling, B.S., Paz, J., Satterfield, D.R. (2019). Geographic variation in demography of black perch (Embiotoca jacksoni): Effects of density, food availability, predation, and fishing. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 516, 16–24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2019.04.008
  • Kramer, S.H. (1990). Distribution and abundance of juvenile California halibut, Paralichthys californicus, in shallow waters of San Diego County. Pages 99–126 in C.W. Haugen, ed. The California halibut, Paralichthys californicus, resource and fisheries. California Department of Fish and Game, Fish Bulletin 174.
  • Love, M.S., Yoklavich, M., Thorsteinson, L. (2002). The rockfishes of the Northeast Pacific. University of California Press, Los Angeles.
  • Love, M. S., & Passarelli, J. K. (2020). Miller and Lea’s Guide to the Coastal Marine Fishes of California, 2nd ed. UC Agriculture and Natural Resources Publications. Davis.
  • Madrigal-Sánchez, A. (2009). Levantamiento batimétrico, análisis estadístico y patrón de refracción del oleaje en Punta Colonet, B.C., México, abril de 2007-abril de 2008. Ensenada, Baja California: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. Bachelor thesis, 94p.
  • Miller, D.J., Lea, R.N. (1972). Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game, Fish Bulletin 157.
  • Miller, R.J., Lafferty, K.D., Lamy, T., Kui, L., Rassweiler, A., Reed, D.C. (2018). Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, increases faunal diversity through physical engineering—proceedings of the Royal Society B, 285, 20172571. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.2571
  • Morgan, L., Maxwell, S., Tsao, F., Wilkinson, T.A. C., Etnoyer, P. (2005). Marine Priority Conservation Areas: Baja California to the Bering Sea. Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America and the Marine Conservation Biology Institute, Montreal.
  • Moser, H.G., Charter, R.L., Smith, P.E., Ambrose, D.A., Charter, S.R., Meyer, C.A, Sandknop, E.M., Watson, W. (1993). Distributional Atlas of fish larvae and eggs in the California Current region: Taxa with 1000 or more total larvae, 1951 through 1984. CalCOFI Atlas 31.
  • NOAA (2025). Enso: Recent evolution, current status and predictions. Climate Prediction Center, 8 Sept 2025. https://origin.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/ensostuff/ONI_v5.php Pondella, D.J., Gintert, B.E., Cobb, J.R., Allen, L.G. (2005). Biogeography of the nearshore rocky-reef fishes at the southern and Baja California islands. Journal of Biogeography, 32, 187–201. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2004.01180.x
  • Rodríguez-Santiago, M.A., Rosales-Casián, J.A. (2008). Abundance and size composition of vermilion rockfish, Sebastes miniatus (Jordan & Gilbert 1880), from sportfishing catches of San Quintín, Ensenada, Baja California, México. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 107(1), 25–32. https://doi.org/10.3160/0038-3872(2008)107[25:AASCOV]2.0.CO;2
  • Rosales-Casián, J.A. (1996). Ichthyofauna of Bahía de San Quintín, Baja California, México, and its adjacent coast. Ciencias Marinas, 22(4), 443–458. https://doi.org/10.7773/cm.v22i4.875
  • Rosales-Casián, J.A. (1997a). Estructura de la comunidad de peces y uso de los ambientes de bahía, laguna y costa abierta en el Pacífico Norte de Baja California. Ensenada, Baja California: Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Baja California (CICESE). PhD thesis, 201p.
  • Rosales-Casián, J.A. (1997b). Inshore soft-bottom fishes of two Coastal lagoons on the Northern Pacific coast of Baja California. California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations Reports, 38, 180–192.
  • Rosales-Casián, J.A. (2004a). Composition, importance and movement of the fishes of Bahía de San Quintín, Baja California, México. Ciencias Marinas, 30(1A), 109–117. https://doi.org/10.7773/cm.v30i11.116
  • Rosales-Casián, J.A. (2004b). Age and Growth of Young-Of-The-Year (YOY) California halibut (Paralichthys californicus), from Northwestern Baja California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 103(3), 137–143.
  • Rosales-Casián, J.A. (2011). The fish assemblages from the nearshore area of Punta Baja, B.C., Mexico, the southern limit of the Southern California Bight. California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations Reports, 52, 162–181.
  • Rosales-Casián, J.A., González-Camacho, J.R. (2003). Abundance and importance of fish species from the artisanal fishery on the Pacific coast of Northern Baja California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 102(2), 51–65.
  • Rosales-Casián, J.A., Delgadillo-Hernández, H. (2010). Abundancia anual y estacional de las especies de peces capturadas mediante la pesca deportiva en San Quintín, Baja California, México, durante 2009. Ensenada, Baja California: Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, B.C. Comunicaciones Académicas, Serie Ecología, PA: 100219.
  • Santes-Álvarez, R.V., Riemann-González, H. (2013). Governance of infrastructure and ecosystem sustainability in Punta Colonet, Baja California state, México. Revista Mexicana de Sociología, 75(1), 91–124. https://doi.org/10.22201/iis.01882503p.2013.1.35118
  • Santini, F., Sorensen, L., Alfaro, M.E. (2016). Phylogeny and biogeography of hogfishes and allies (Bodianus, Labridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 99.1–6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2016.02.011
  • SEMARNAT. (2022). Proyecto Multimodal Punta Colonet, en la Bahía de Colonet, Ensenada, Baja California. Ficha informativa, Gobierno del Estado de Baja California. Shanks, A.L., Eckert, G. (2005). Population persistence of California Current fishes and benthic crustaceans: A marine drift paradox. Ecological Monographs, 75(4), 505–524. 524. https://doi.org/10.1890/05-0309
  • Stephens, J.S., Zerba, K.E. (1981). Factors affecting fish diversity on a temperate reef. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 6, 111 121. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00001805
  • Stephens, J.S., Jr., Larson, R., Pondella II, D.J. (2006). Rocky Reefs and Kelp Beds. In L.G. Allen, D.J. Pondella, II, and M. Horn (Eds.), The Ecology of Marine Fishes: California and Adjacent Waters (p. 227). Berkley, California: University of California Press. ISBN 13: 978-0520246539. https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520246539.003.0009
  • Stepien, C.A. (1986). Life history and larval development of Giant kelpfish, Heterostichus rostratus Girard, 1854. Fishery Bulletin, 84(4), 809–826.
  • Wang, Y.H., Walter, R.K., White, C., Ruttenberg, B.I. (2022). Spatial and temporal characteristics of California commercial fisheries from 2005 to 2019 and potential overlap with offshore wind energy development. Marine Coastal Fisheries, Dynamic Management, and Ecosystem Science, 0:e10215. https://doi.org/10.1002/mcf2.10215
  • Zar, J.H. (1984). Biostatistical Analysis, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall, Inc., 718p.

Coastal fish community structure at a proposed site for a new maritime port: Punta Colonet, Baja California, México (Eastern Pacific)

Year 2026, Issue: Advanced Online Publication, 90 - 106, 16.03.2026

Jorge A. Rosales-Casian

https://doi.org/10.3153/AR26009
https://izlik.org/JA85TU42ZL

Abstract

Punta Colonet, Baja California, México, is 240 kilometres south of California (USA), an upwelling and fishing site considered for a seaport construction. Coastal fish structure was determined through monitoring and available information, resulting in 7,010 individuals (106 species). Black perch (Embiotoca jacksoni) was most abundant by diving, and with hook-and-line, the Starry rockfish (Sebastes constellatus). Otter trawls and gillnets caught abundant Dwarf perch (Micrometrus minimus) and E. jacksoni. Artisanal fishing caught the Ocean whitefish (Caulolatilus princeps) abundantly in winter, summer, fall, and Vermilion rockfish (Sebastes miniatus) in spring; the overall mean was 67.6 ±17.3 SE fish/boat, highest in summer (81 ±4.6 fish/boat), and lowest during winter (49.5 ±4.2 fish/boat). Sportfishers caught Yellowtail (Seriola lalandi, 32.2%), S. miniatus, and Lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus). Ensenada Seafood Market sold California sheephead (Bodianus pulcher, formerly Semicossyphus pulcher 66.4%), C. princeps, and Paralabrax nebulifer. Colonet fish in the preserved collection recorded higher numbers of Northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax, n = 286) and White croaker (Genyonemus lineatus). The most abundant in all series was B. pulcher (16%) and ordered by Index of Community Importance: E. jacksoni (occurrence 41.1%), C. princeps, S. miniatus, B. pulcher, and M. minimus. With different methods, a greater number of fish and species were collected, and this shows the guidelines to follow after the port's construction. Colonet highlights fish habitat, also for commercial and sportfishing, and the information will help decision-makers before port construction.

Keywords

Baseline Fish species Abundance Seasonality Occurrence Importance Bahía Colonet

Ethical Statement

This study was conducted in accordance with ethics committee procedures with no animal experiments.

Supporting Institution

The Oceanology Division of Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Baja California (CICESE) funded this study through different projects headed by Jorge A. Rosales-Casián in the Marine Ecology Department.

Thanks

Thanks to Milton Love, University of California Santa Barbara, for his Horizon cruise and Cesar Almeda (CICESE) for help. Thanks to students Rubí Ruz, Anelena Campuzano, Alejandro Rodríguez in fish sampling; boat operators Luis Arce and Iván Castro. Humberto Delgadillo in seafood market monitoring, Jorge I. Rosales-Vásquez in sampling and by the Colonet bay map.

References

  • Albino-Martínez, O., Rosales-Casián, J.A. (2024). Ecology of economically important fish at a temperate Pacific island of Baja California, Mexico. Journal of Coastal Research, 40(5), 919–928. https://doi.org/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-23-00079.1
  • Adame-Fraire, F.M. (2015). Composición y abundancia estacionales de las especies de peces en el Mercado de Mariscos de Ensenada, B.C., durante 2013-2014. Bachelor's thesis. Zacatecas, Zacatecas: Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas. 39p.
  • Allen, L.G., Pondella, D.J. II., Horn, M.H. (Eds.). (2006). The ecology of marine Fishes: California and adjacent waters. University of California Press, Berkeley. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520932470
  • Álvarez-Borrego, S. (2004). Nutrient and phytoplankton dynamics in a coastal lagoon strongly affected by coastal upwelling. Ciencias Marinas, 30, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.7773/cm.v30i1A.2510
  • Barton, E.D., Argote, M.L. (1980). Hydrographic variability in an upwelling area off northern Baja California in June 1976. Journal of Marine Research, 38(4), 631–649.
  • Butler, J.L., Love, M.S., Laidig, T.E. (2012). A guide to the rockfishes, thornyheads, and scorpionfishes of the Northeast Pacific. University of California Press, Berkeley.
  • Castillo-Chávez, J.A. (2014). El valor potencial del megapuerto de Punta Colonet. Ciudad de México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Bachelor thesis, 107p.
  • DOF, Diario Oficial de la Federación. (2008). Convocatoria para participar en el concurso cuyo objetivo es el otorgamiento simultáneo de una concesión para la construcción, operación y explotación de una Vía General de Comunicación Ferroviaria que contemplará la o las rutas con punto de origen Bahía Colonet, Ensenada, Baja California, México. DOF: 02/09/2008.
  • Enciso-Enciso, C., Arizmendi-Rodríguez, D., Zúñiga-Flores, M., Ruíz-Domínguez, M., Álvarez-Trasviña, E. (2025). Assessment and management of the Gulf corvina Cynoscion othonopterus (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) in the Upper Gulf of California. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 253(4), 594–606. https://doi.org/10.3856/vol53-issue4-fulltext-3356 Froeschke, B., Allen, L.G., Pondella, D.J. (2007). Life History and Courtship Behaviour of Black Perch, Embiotoca jacksoni (Teleostomi: Embiotocidae), from Southern California. Pacific Science, 61(4), 21–531. https://doi.org/10.2984/1534-6188(2007)61[521:LHACBO]2.0.CO;2
  • Hammann, M.G., Rosales-Casián, J.A. (1990). Taxonomía y estructura de la comunidad de peces del Estero de Punta Banda y Bahía de Todos Santos, Baja California, México. Pages 153–192 in J. de la Rosas Vélez and F. González Farías, eds. Temas de oceanografía biológica en México. Ensenada, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California.
  • Heath, G.J. (2001-2004). Colnett: Una colonia sueca en el Distrito Norte de Baja California, 1888-1892. Calafia Nueva Época, 1(1-8): http://iih.tij.uabc.mx/iihDigital.html#calafia Horn, M.H., Allen, L.G., Lea, R.N. (2006). Biogeography. Pages 3–25 in L.G. Allen, D. J. Pondella, and M. H. Horn, eds. The Ecology of Marine Fishes, California and Adjacent Waters. Berkeley, University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520932470
  • Humann, P., Deloach, N. (2004). Reef fish identification: Baja to Panama. Jacksonville, Florida: New World Publications, 343p. ISBN: 9781878348388.
  • Johnson, D.W., Stirling, B.S., Paz, J., Satterfield, D.R. (2019). Geographic variation in demography of black perch (Embiotoca jacksoni): Effects of density, food availability, predation, and fishing. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 516, 16–24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2019.04.008
  • Kramer, S.H. (1990). Distribution and abundance of juvenile California halibut, Paralichthys californicus, in shallow waters of San Diego County. Pages 99–126 in C.W. Haugen, ed. The California halibut, Paralichthys californicus, resource and fisheries. California Department of Fish and Game, Fish Bulletin 174.
  • Love, M.S., Yoklavich, M., Thorsteinson, L. (2002). The rockfishes of the Northeast Pacific. University of California Press, Los Angeles.
  • Love, M. S., & Passarelli, J. K. (2020). Miller and Lea’s Guide to the Coastal Marine Fishes of California, 2nd ed. UC Agriculture and Natural Resources Publications. Davis.
  • Madrigal-Sánchez, A. (2009). Levantamiento batimétrico, análisis estadístico y patrón de refracción del oleaje en Punta Colonet, B.C., México, abril de 2007-abril de 2008. Ensenada, Baja California: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. Bachelor thesis, 94p.
  • Miller, D.J., Lea, R.N. (1972). Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game, Fish Bulletin 157.
  • Miller, R.J., Lafferty, K.D., Lamy, T., Kui, L., Rassweiler, A., Reed, D.C. (2018). Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, increases faunal diversity through physical engineering—proceedings of the Royal Society B, 285, 20172571. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.2571
  • Morgan, L., Maxwell, S., Tsao, F., Wilkinson, T.A. C., Etnoyer, P. (2005). Marine Priority Conservation Areas: Baja California to the Bering Sea. Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America and the Marine Conservation Biology Institute, Montreal.
  • Moser, H.G., Charter, R.L., Smith, P.E., Ambrose, D.A., Charter, S.R., Meyer, C.A, Sandknop, E.M., Watson, W. (1993). Distributional Atlas of fish larvae and eggs in the California Current region: Taxa with 1000 or more total larvae, 1951 through 1984. CalCOFI Atlas 31.
  • NOAA (2025). Enso: Recent evolution, current status and predictions. Climate Prediction Center, 8 Sept 2025. https://origin.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/ensostuff/ONI_v5.php Pondella, D.J., Gintert, B.E., Cobb, J.R., Allen, L.G. (2005). Biogeography of the nearshore rocky-reef fishes at the southern and Baja California islands. Journal of Biogeography, 32, 187–201. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2004.01180.x
  • Rodríguez-Santiago, M.A., Rosales-Casián, J.A. (2008). Abundance and size composition of vermilion rockfish, Sebastes miniatus (Jordan & Gilbert 1880), from sportfishing catches of San Quintín, Ensenada, Baja California, México. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 107(1), 25–32. https://doi.org/10.3160/0038-3872(2008)107[25:AASCOV]2.0.CO;2
  • Rosales-Casián, J.A. (1996). Ichthyofauna of Bahía de San Quintín, Baja California, México, and its adjacent coast. Ciencias Marinas, 22(4), 443–458. https://doi.org/10.7773/cm.v22i4.875
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  • Rosales-Casián, J.A. (1997b). Inshore soft-bottom fishes of two Coastal lagoons on the Northern Pacific coast of Baja California. California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations Reports, 38, 180–192.
  • Rosales-Casián, J.A. (2004a). Composition, importance and movement of the fishes of Bahía de San Quintín, Baja California, México. Ciencias Marinas, 30(1A), 109–117. https://doi.org/10.7773/cm.v30i11.116
  • Rosales-Casián, J.A. (2004b). Age and Growth of Young-Of-The-Year (YOY) California halibut (Paralichthys californicus), from Northwestern Baja California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 103(3), 137–143.
  • Rosales-Casián, J.A. (2011). The fish assemblages from the nearshore area of Punta Baja, B.C., Mexico, the southern limit of the Southern California Bight. California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations Reports, 52, 162–181.
  • Rosales-Casián, J.A., González-Camacho, J.R. (2003). Abundance and importance of fish species from the artisanal fishery on the Pacific coast of Northern Baja California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 102(2), 51–65.
  • Rosales-Casián, J.A., Delgadillo-Hernández, H. (2010). Abundancia anual y estacional de las especies de peces capturadas mediante la pesca deportiva en San Quintín, Baja California, México, durante 2009. Ensenada, Baja California: Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, B.C. Comunicaciones Académicas, Serie Ecología, PA: 100219.
  • Santes-Álvarez, R.V., Riemann-González, H. (2013). Governance of infrastructure and ecosystem sustainability in Punta Colonet, Baja California state, México. Revista Mexicana de Sociología, 75(1), 91–124. https://doi.org/10.22201/iis.01882503p.2013.1.35118
  • Santini, F., Sorensen, L., Alfaro, M.E. (2016). Phylogeny and biogeography of hogfishes and allies (Bodianus, Labridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 99.1–6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2016.02.011
  • SEMARNAT. (2022). Proyecto Multimodal Punta Colonet, en la Bahía de Colonet, Ensenada, Baja California. Ficha informativa, Gobierno del Estado de Baja California. Shanks, A.L., Eckert, G. (2005). Population persistence of California Current fishes and benthic crustaceans: A marine drift paradox. Ecological Monographs, 75(4), 505–524. 524. https://doi.org/10.1890/05-0309
  • Stephens, J.S., Zerba, K.E. (1981). Factors affecting fish diversity on a temperate reef. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 6, 111 121. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00001805
  • Stephens, J.S., Jr., Larson, R., Pondella II, D.J. (2006). Rocky Reefs and Kelp Beds. In L.G. Allen, D.J. Pondella, II, and M. Horn (Eds.), The Ecology of Marine Fishes: California and Adjacent Waters (p. 227). Berkley, California: University of California Press. ISBN 13: 978-0520246539. https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520246539.003.0009
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  • Wang, Y.H., Walter, R.K., White, C., Ruttenberg, B.I. (2022). Spatial and temporal characteristics of California commercial fisheries from 2005 to 2019 and potential overlap with offshore wind energy development. Marine Coastal Fisheries, Dynamic Management, and Ecosystem Science, 0:e10215. https://doi.org/10.1002/mcf2.10215
  • Zar, J.H. (1984). Biostatistical Analysis, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall, Inc., 718p.
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Primary Language English
Subjects Marine and Estuarine Ecology, Ecology (Other)
Journal Section Research Article
Authors

Jorge A. Rosales-Casian 0000-0002-5546-5791

Submission Date October 10, 2025
Acceptance Date January 22, 2026
Early Pub Date March 16, 2026
Publication Date March 16, 2026
DOI https://doi.org/10.3153/AR26009
IZ https://izlik.org/JA85TU42ZL
Published in Issue Year 2026 Issue: Advanced Online Publication

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APA Rosales-Casian, J. A. (2026). Coastal fish community structure at a proposed site for a new maritime port: Punta Colonet, Baja California, México (Eastern Pacific). Aquatic Research, Advanced Online Publication, 90-106. https://doi.org/10.3153/AR26009

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     The journal publishes original research and review articles prepared in accordance with ethical rules.

The publication of the "AQUATIC RESEARCH" journal are not limited to these; Aquatic Biology, Aquatic Ecology, Aquatic Environment and Pollutants, Aquaculture, Conservation and Management of Aquatic Source, Economics and Managements of Fisheries, Fish Diseases and Health, Fisheries Resources and Management, Genetics of Aquatic Organisms, Limnology, Maritime Sciences, Marine Accidents, Marine Navigation and Safety, Marine and Coastal Ecology, Oceanography, Seafood Processing and Quality Control, Seafood Safety Systems, Sustainability in Marine and Freshwater Systems etc. covers topics. The target audience of the journal consists of experts and professionals working and interested in all disciplines of aquatic sciences.

Processing and publication are free of charge with the journal. There is no article processing charges or submission fees for any submitted or accepted articles. Statements or opinions expressed in articles published in the journal reflect the views of the author(s), not the views of the editors, editorial board and/or publisher; The editors, editorial board, and publisher do not accept any responsibility or liability for such materials.

To guarantee that all papers published in the journal are maintained and permanently accessible, articles are stored in Dergipark (https://dergipark.org.tr) which serves as a national archival web site and at the same time permits LOCKSS to collect, preserve, and serve the content. All expenses of the journal are covered by the ScientificWebJournals web portal.

In addition, authors are encouraged to self-archive the final PDF version of their articles in open electronic archives that comply with Open Archive Initiative (https://www.openarchives.org/) standards. Authors should provide a link from the stored version to the journal website URL.

Editor in Chief: Prof. Dr. Özkan Özden

Address: Istanbul University Faculty of Aquatic Sciences, Kalenderhane Mah. 16 Mart Şehitleri Cad. No:2 34134 Vezneciler Fatih/Istanbul, Türkiye

E-mail: ozden@istanbul.edu.tr 


Header photos (web and others) from Ferhan Coşkun, Türkiye

E.mail: fcoskun@gmail.com

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Article evaluation and submission rules for reviewers and authors are given in the link below.


https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/journal-file/26282 

The journal “AQUATIC RESEARCH” adheres to the highest standards of publishing ethics guided by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), Council of Science Editors (CSE), Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), European Association of Science Editors (EASE), Open Access Scholarly and Publishers Association (OASPA), and  Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

Authors must comply with the IUCN Policy Statement on Research Involv-ing Species at Risk of Extinction and the Convention on the Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora for research involving plants.

Manuscripts submitted should align with the journal's purpose and scope and must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere. Changes to authorship (name, order, additions) require written consent from all declared authors.

The following actions constitute unethical behavior and result in rejection or retraction: plagiarism, duplication, false authorship, data fabrication, slicing, copyright infringement, and undisclosed conflicts of interest. 

Journal Responsibilities
The "AQUATIC RESEARCH" journal is committed to preventing publication malpractice. Submitted works must represent original contributions free from plagiarism. Authors must disclose actual or potential conflicts of interest. The journal ensures objective and fair double-blind peer-review to prevent conflicts between editorial staff, reviewers, and authors
The journal provides an open platform for public discussion requiring registration for accountability. Reviewer identities remain confidential unless explicitly disclosed to the editors.
Publication Decisions
The editor of the "AQUATIC RESEARCH" journals is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The editor may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.
The journal submission and publication process involves manuscript submission, ethical checks, double-blind peer review, editorial decision-making (including potential conflict resolution), typesetting, author review, DOI assignment, online publication, and archiving, as detailed in the workflow diagram below.
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Fair Play
An editor at any time evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regarding race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
Confidentiality
The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.
Research Ethics
An approval of research protocols by the Ethics Committee in accordance with international agreements (World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki “Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects,” amended in October 2013, www.wma.net) is required for experimental, clinical, and drug studies. If required, ethics committee reports or an equivalent official document will be requested from the authors.
For manuscripts concerning experimental research on humans, a statement should be included that shows the written informed consent of patients and volunteers was obtained following a detailed explanation of the procedures that they may undergo. Information on patient consent, the name of the ethics committee, and the ethics committee approval number should also be stated in the Materials and Methods section of the manuscript. It is the authors’ responsibility to carefully protect the patients’ anonymity. For photographs that may reveal the identity of the patients, signed releases of the patient or of their legal representative should be enclosed.
“AQUATIC RESEARCH” journal requires experimental research studies on vertebrates or any regulated invertebrates to comply with relevant institutional, national and/or international guidelines. The journal supports the principles of the Basel Declaration (https://animalresearchtomorrow.org/en) and the guidelines published by the International Council for Laboratory Animal Science (ICLAS) (https://iclas.org/). Authors are advised to clearly state their compliance with relevant guidelines.
This journal advises authors to comply with IUCN Policy Statement on Research Involving Species at Risk of Extinction and the Convention on the Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora for research involving plants.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools
Our journal adheres to international standards of publication ethics and requires complete transparency regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot, etc.) during manuscript preparation.
Disclosure Requirement: Authors must disclose the use of any AI tool in the manuscript, specifying the name of the tool, the stage(s) at which it was used, and its purpose. This text should be included in the "Disclosure". Authors must affirm that all scientific content is their own and that they retain full responsibility for any material generated with the assistance of AI tools.
Content Limitation: The use of AI tools must remain supplementary. If the proportion of AI-generated text content exceeds 20% of the total manuscript, the submission will be considered ineligible for review and rejected on ethical grounds.
Responsibility: AI tools cannot be listed as authors. All named authors are solely accountable for the content of the submission, including any material produced with AI assistance. Failure to disclose the use of AI tools or excessive reliance on them will be considered a breach of publication ethics.
Plagiarism
Submitted manuscripts that pass preflight are scanned for plagiarism using iThenticate software. Authors will be notified if plagiarism/self-plagiarism is detected. Editors can resubmit the article for any peer-review or similarity check during production, if necessary. High similarity scores can cause an article to be rejected before or even after it is accepted. Depending on the type of article and the percentage of similarity scores from each article, the overall similarity score is generally expected to be less than 20%.
Double-Blind Referee Evaluation
After the plagiarism check, the appropriate ones are evaluated by the editors in terms of originality, methodology, importance of the subject and suitability to the scope of the journal. The editor directs the submitted articles to a fair double-blind peer-review (submits the articles that comply with official rules to at least two national/international referees for evaluation) and gives approval by managing the processes for publication after they are modified by the authors in accordance with the referees' rules.
Open Access Statement
The journal is an open access journal and all its content is freely available to the user or institution. Users are permitted to read, download, copy, print, search or link the full texts of articles in this journal without prior permission from the publisher or author. This conforms to Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) 's definition of open access.
Open access articles in the journal are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Article Processing Fee
All journal processes are free of charge. No article processing fee, submission fee or publication fee is charged for submitted or accepted articles.
Copyright Notice
Authors publishing with the journal retain copyright to their work licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), and Publisher retains the exclusive right to publish the work. The CC BY 4.0 license permits unlimited distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.
The copyright of any open access article in the "AQUATIC RESEARCH" journal published on the "ScientificWebJournals" web portal hosted by "DergiPark" belongs to the author(s).
Correction, Withdrawal, Expression of Concern
If minor errors are detected that do not affect the results, comments and conclusions of the published article, the editor accepts the correction. If major errors and/or abuses are detected by the editor, which invalidates the results and conclusions, their withdrawal is considered.
If there is evidence of research or publication abuse by the authors, there is evidence that the findings are unreliable and that the authors' institutions did not investigate the incident, or the potential investigation seems unfair or inconclusive. The editor should consider issuing a statement of concern.
COPE and ICJME guidelines are considered regarding correction, withdrawal or expression of concern.
Archiving Policy
To preserve and permanently access all articles published in the journal "Aquatic Research", the papers are nationally archived under the name Dergipark (https://dergipark.org) by TÜBİTAK Turkish Academic Network and Information Center (ULAKBİM) affiliated with the Ministry of Industry and Technology of Türkiye. It is stored with a system established for journal publishing activities that allow LOCKSS to collect, preserve and present the content.
Additionally, authors are encouraged to self-archive the final PDF version of their articles in open electronic archives with that conform to standards of Open Archives Initiative (https://www.openarchives.org/). Authors should provide a link from the deposited version to the URL of journal website.

Processing and publication are free of charge with the journal. There is no article processing charges or submission fees for any submitted or accepted articles.

Open Access Statement:

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

Citation Indexes

TR Dizin
Scopus

Other Indexes

Zoological Record

Sorumlu Editör

Özkan Özden
Özkan ÖZDEN
Food Properties, Food Engineering, Food Sciences, Aquaculture and Fisheries, Post-Harvest Fisheries Technologies (Incl. Transportation), Fisheries Technologies

Sorumlu Editör Yardımcısı

Nuray Erkan
Nuray ERKAN
Nutrition and Dietetics, Public Health, Food Sciences, Food Packaging, Preservation and Processing, Food Biotechnology, Food Safety, Traceability, Certification and Authenticity, Food Chemistry and Food Sensory Science, Food Microbiology, Food Technology, Post-Harvest Fisheries Technologies (Incl. Transportation), Veterinary Food Hygiene and Technology

Language Editors

Gökhan Tunçelli
Gökhan TUNÇELLİ
Fish Breeding, Pisciculture, Shellfish Culture, Fisheries Technologies, Aquaculture

Ethics Editor

Şafak Ulusoy
Şafak ULUSOY
Aquatic Toxicology , Food Consumption, Fermentation Technology, Food Packaging, Preservation and Processing, Food Safety, Traceability, Certification and Authenticity, Food Microbiology, Food Technology, Drying Technologies, Fisheries Technologies

Editörler Kurulu

Albert Ukaro Ofuoku
Albert Ukaro OFUOKU
Agricultural Extension and Communication
Erhan Mutlu
Erhan MUTLU
Ecology, Oceanography
Murat Yiğit
Murat YİĞİT
Ecological Applications, Water Quality and Water Pollution, Surface Water Quality Processes and Contaminated Sediment Assessment, Aquaculture and Fisheries, Pisciculture, Farm Enterprises, Agribusiness
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Jualang Azlan GANSAU
Plant Biotechnology in Agriculture
Emine Gözde Özbayram
Emine Gözde ÖZBAYRAM
Microbiology, Environmental Biotechnology, Environmental Biotechnology Diagnostics (Incl. Biosensors), Water Quality and Water Pollution, Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy Resources
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Eltjon HALİMİ
Entomology, Invertebrate Biology
Ulfert Focken
Ulfert FOCKEN
Pisciculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries (Other)
Momin Momin
Momin MOMİN
Fish Biology, Fish Physiology and Genetics, Fish Breeding, Pisciculture, Aquaculture
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Katya PEYCHEVA
Analytical Biochemistry, Environmental Assessment and Monitoring, Food Safety, Traceability, Certification and Authenticity, Aquaculture
Adrian Grozea
Adrian GROZEA
Hydrobiology, Water Quality and Water Pollution, Aquaculture and Fisheries, Pisciculture
Emre Çağlak
Emre ÇAĞLAK
Food Packaging, Preservation and Processing, Food Biotechnology, Food Safety, Traceability, Certification and Authenticity, Food Chemistry and Food Sensory Science, Food Microbiology, Post-Harvest Fisheries Technologies (Incl. Transportation), Fisheries Technologies

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Open Access Statement:

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

Archiving Policy:

Archiving is done according to TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM "DergiPark" publication policy (LOCKSS).