Acompanhamento da colonização e ocupação ictiofaunística do rebocador walsa intencionalmente naufragado no litoral do Estado de Pernambuco - Brasil

Abstract

From June 2009 to May 2011 were made 18 dives and accounted for approximately 17,572 individuals in 65 species 44 genera and 29 families. The number of indentified species, varied in each dive and the months with lowest and highest number of species in June 2009 (15 species) January 2011 (41 species). The most common species were Haemulon aurolineatum and Haemulon squamipinna with the formation of schools with approximately 1,000 and 2,000 individuals respectively representing 76,7% of the total individuals sampled. The most representative families were Labridae (10 species), Lutjanidae (6 species), Carangidae and Haemulidae with 5 species and Epinephelidae (4 species). The relationship between Shannon Winner (H’) and Pielou evenness (J), presented a decrease the first to the second year of sampling, reaching maximum values of H’=2.98, J=0.56 and H’=1.52, J=0.29 respectively. These values were significantly different (Kuskal Wallis = 12.87, p<0,05) between the diversity of the first year for the second sample, as well as the evenness (Kuskal Wallis = 12.82, p<0.05). The summer months had similarity (>80%) showing a homogeneous and diverse fish community. Some behaviors were possible to be observed in the artificial reef, as follower’s species, cleaning symbiosis, feeding and breeding. However, this artificial reef showed that despite the short time of installation has been great ecological importance because its great wealth and diversity of existing economic, as it protects the species from overfishing, because the government (State Decree 23.394/2001) making it a crime for some destructive practice this artificial environment.