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Growth, mortality and yield per recruit of the king soldier bream Argyrops spinifer (Sparidae) from the Oman coast of the Arabian Sea
The King soldier bream Argyrops spinifer at Arabian Sea (Omani waters) was assessed using Beverton and Holt yield per recruit model. A total of 5520 specimens were collected during five trawl surveys between September 2007 and August 2008. The maximum life span was 11 years for length range of 11.0 â 62.1 cm TL. The von Bertalanffy growth parameters were K = 0.22 year^-1, Lâ = 65.51 cm, to = -0.75 year and Wâ = 5430g. The rates of total mortality Z, natural mortality M and fishing mortality F were 0.85, 0.26 and 0.59 year^-1 respectively. The exploitation ratio E was 0.69 indicating the high level of exploitation. The estimated total length at 50% maturity was 31.8 cm. Yield per recruit analysis revealed over-fished stock conditions particularly because small fish are effectively unprotected by current minimum size regulations. Therefore measures such as closed seasons or changes in fishing patterns would be desirable to safeguard the spawning stock and recruits. Also, the commercial fishery of Arabian Sea, Oman should be subjected to a total allowable catch and a maximum size limit be implemented
First record of the Pacific bluefin tuna Thunnus orientalis (Temminck Schlegel, 1844) from the coast off Sur, Sultanate of Oman
A single specimen of the Pacific bluefin tuna Thunnus orientalis was caught on 11 May 2017 in a long-line operated about 40 nautical miles off the coast of Sur atconfluent of Sea of Oman and Arabian Sea coast of Oman. This first record of its occurrence indicates the extension of distributional range of the species to the Arabian Sea coast of Oman
First record of Gymnocranius griseus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843) (family Lethrinidae) from southern Oman, Western Indian Ocean
Primer registre de Gymnocranius griseus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843) (famĂlia Lethrinidae) del sud dâOman, oest de lâoceĂ Ăndic
Es va recol¡lectar un Ăşnic espècimen (285 mm longitud estĂ ndard) de Gymnocranius griseus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843) a la ciutat de Salalah (Oman), a la costa del mar dâArĂ bia. Ăs el primer registre dâaquesta espècie a les aigĂźes dâOman. Presenta caracterĂstiques especĂfiques: cos alt (2,17 vegades la longitud estĂ ndard); els perfils dorsal i ventral del cap sĂłn uniformement convexos; el perfil de la part ventral del cos ĂŠs recte; la vora inferior de lâull se situa lleugerament per sota de la lĂnia que uneix la part anterior de la boca amb el centre de lâaleta caudal lobulada; lâull ĂŠs relativament ample, de diĂ metre prĂ cticament igual o lleugerament superior a les distĂ ncies preorbitĂ ria i interorbitĂ ria; la boca ĂŠs relativament petita i la part posterior dels maxil¡lars arriba prĂ cticament al nivell dels orificis nasals anteriors; presenta tres parells de fines canines a la part anterior del maxil¡lar superior i un parell a la part anterior de lâinferior, com tambĂŠ altres dents vil¡liformes que adquireixen forma cònica a les parts laterals. Lâespècimen va ser identificat com un G. griseus atès que les seves caracterĂstiques corresponen a la descripciĂł diagnòstica de Carpenter & Allen (1989).
Palabras clave: Gymnocranius griseus, Salalah, Mar de Arabia, Primer registro.A single specimen (285 mm SL) of Gymnocranius
griseus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843) was collected from Salalah, Arabian Sea coast of Oman.
It is the first record of this species from the Omani waters. It shows specific characters:
deep body (2.17 times SL); evenly convex dorsal and ventral profile of head; ventral part
of body profile straight; lower edge of eye slightly above a line from tip of snout to middle
of caudal fin fork; eye relatively large, its diameter about equal to or slightly larger than
preorbital and interorbital widths; mouth relatively small, posterior part of jaws reaching to
about level of anterior nostrils; three pair and one pair of slender canines at front of upper
and lower jaw, respectively, other teeth villiform, becoming conical on lateral sections. The
specimen was identified as G. griseus as these characters fit the diagnostic description of
Carpenter & Allen (1989).
Key words: Gymnocranius griseus, Salalah, Arabian Sea, First record.Primer registre de Gymnocranius griseus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843) (famĂlia Lethrinidae) del sud dâOman, oest de lâoceĂ Ăndic
Es va recol¡lectar un Ăşnic espècimen (285 mm longitud estĂ ndard) de Gymnocranius griseus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843) a la ciutat de Salalah (Oman), a la costa del mar dâArĂ bia. Ăs el primer registre dâaquesta espècie a les aigĂźes dâOman. Presenta caracterĂstiques especĂfiques: cos alt (2,17 vegades la longitud estĂ ndard); els perfils dorsal i ventral del cap sĂłn uniformement convexos; el perfil de la part ventral del cos ĂŠs recte; la vora inferior de lâull se situa lleugerament per sota de la lĂnia que uneix la part anterior de la boca amb el centre de lâaleta caudal lobulada; lâull ĂŠs relativament ample, de diĂ metre prĂ cticament igual o lleugerament superior a les distĂ ncies preorbitĂ ria i interorbitĂ ria; la boca ĂŠs relativament petita i la part posterior dels maxil¡lars arriba prĂ cticament al nivell dels orificis nasals anteriors; presenta tres parells de fines canines a la part anterior del maxil¡lar superior i un parell a la part anterior de lâinferior, com tambĂŠ altres dents vil¡liformes que adquireixen forma cònica a les parts laterals. Lâespècimen va ser identificat com un G. griseus atès que les seves caracterĂstiques corresponen a la descripciĂł diagnòstica de Carpenter & Allen (1989).
Palabras clave: Gymnocranius griseus, Salalah, Mar de Arabia, Primer registro
Measurement of the Spectral Shape of the beta-decay of 137Xe to the Ground State of 137Cs in EXO-200 and Comparison with Theory
We report on a comparison between the theoretically predicted and
experimentally measured spectra of the first-forbidden non-unique -decay
transition ^{137}\textrm{Xe}(7/2^-)\to\,^{137}\textrm{Cs}(7/2^+). The
experimental data were acquired by the EXO-200 experiment during a deployment
of an AmBe neutron source. The ultra-low background environment of EXO-200,
together with dedicated source deployment and analysis procedures, allowed for
collection of a pure sample of the decays, with an estimated
signal-to-background ratio of more than 99-to-1 in the energy range from 1075
to 4175 keV. In addition to providing a rare and accurate measurement of the
first-forbidden non-unique -decay shape, this work constitutes a novel
test of the calculated electron spectral shapes in the context of the reactor
antineutrino anomaly and spectral bump.Comment: Version as accepted by PR
Generative Adversarial Networks for Scintillation Signal Simulation in EXO-200
Generative Adversarial Networks trained on samples of simulated or actual
events have been proposed as a way of generating large simulated datasets at a
reduced computational cost. In this work, a novel approach to perform the
simulation of photodetector signals from the time projection chamber of the
EXO-200 experiment is demonstrated. The method is based on a Wasserstein
Generative Adversarial Network - a deep learning technique allowing for
implicit non-parametric estimation of the population distribution for a given
set of objects. Our network is trained on real calibration data using raw
scintillation waveforms as input. We find that it is able to produce
high-quality simulated waveforms an order of magnitude faster than the
traditional simulation approach and, importantly, generalize from the training
sample and discern salient high-level features of the data. In particular, the
network correctly deduces position dependency of scintillation light response
in the detector and correctly recognizes dead photodetector channels. The
network output is then integrated into the EXO-200 analysis framework to show
that the standard EXO-200 reconstruction routine processes the simulated
waveforms to produce energy distributions comparable to that of real waveforms.
Finally, the remaining discrepancies and potential ways to improve the approach
further are highlighted.Comment: 20 pages, 10 figure
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