Scomberomorus commerson | UAE National Red List of Marine Species: Reef-building corals, cartilaginous fishes and select bony fishes
Taxa
Scomberomorus commerson | (Lacepède, 1800)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Endangered
Assessment status abreviation
EN
Assessment status criteria
A2bd
Assessment rationale/justification
This coastal, pelagic species occurs throughout UAE waters. It is heavily exploited by all levels of fisheries throughout the Arabian Gulf and Sea of Oman, and is considered overexploited according to stock assessments conducted in several countries of this region, including off Abu Dhabi where it is considered collapsed. Several management measures have been implemented in UAE waters, but fisheries management remains inadequate in other countries. Given the migratory nature of the species, it is considered a single stock across the Arabian Gulf, and possibly connected to the Sea of Oman as well. Effort is not quantified, but has either remained constant or increased across the region over time. Catch in the GCC countries, which represents a single stock, declined by about 68% since 1988. According to catch data, stock assessments and fish market observations, it is inferred this species declined by at least 50-70% over the past three generation lengths (27 years), or since about 1988. It is listed as Endangered A2bd.
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
Overfishing is a major threat to this species in the UAE and throughout the Arabian Gulf and Sea of Oman region (Grandcourt et al. 2005, Grandcourt et al. 2014). In addition, warming waters in the Gulf due to climate change are expected to impact this species in that region (Wabnitz et al. 2018). 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
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Conservation measures notes:
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Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Scomberomorus commerson | Animalia | Chordata | Actinopterygii | Perciformes | Scombridae | Scomberomorus |