Atule mate | UAE National Red List of Marine Species: Reef-building corals, cartilaginous fishes and select bony fishes
Taxa
Atule mate | (Cuvier, 1833)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Data deficient
Assessment status abreviation
DD
Assessment rationale/justification
This inshore, pelagic speciesis common throughout UAE waters and is taken in fisheries. Catch on the eastern coast has declined significantly over at least the past decade or more. Catch in Abu Dhabi declined by 91% over the past 13 years, but this decline is expected to be caused at least partially by reduced fishing effort. A stock assessment conducted in 2012 for Abu Dhabi did not consider it overexploited at that time, and an update to the stock assessment was not able to be completed due to the lack of individuals available at the market to sample. It is taken in fisheries elsewhere in the Gulf and Sea of Oman region as well. Due to the potential major threat from overfishing and the very poor understanding of its population status in the UAE, it is listed as Data Deficient.
Assessment year
2019
Assessors/contributors/reviewers listed
UAE National Red List Workshop
Affliation of assessor(s)/contributors/reviewers listed on assessment
Government
IGO
Assessor affiliation specific
Government|IGO
Criteria system specifics
IUCN v3.1 + Regional Guidelines v4.0
Criteria system used
IUCN
Criteria Citation
IUCN. 2012. IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1, Second edition. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. iv + 32pp pp. And IUCN. 2012. Guidelines for Application of IUCN Red List Criteria at Regional and National Levels: Version 4.0. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN. iii + 41pp.
Endemic to region
Not_assigned
Endemism Notes
Is an endemic?: Not_assigned
Threats listed in assessment
Fishing activity is not known to be driving declines in the UAE at this time. Corals in the UAE and Arabian Gulf have severely declined due to the increasing frequency of mass bleaching events caused by rising water temperatures, which is a consequence of climate change, as well as pervasive coastal development (Riegl et al. 2018, Burt et al. 2019).
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
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Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Atule mate | Animalia | Chordata | Actinopterygii | Perciformes | Carangidae | Atule |