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Studying Nassau Grouper Spawning Aggregations
Grouper Spawning Aggregations Studying Nassau grouper spawning aggregations The key to rebuilding and conserving this important fishery resource by Craig Dahlgren Adult Nassau grouper at a cleaning station on a ... spawning aggregations, a reduction in the size of fish at spawning aggregations, and a skewed ratio of males to females at spawning aggregations. Based on what we learn from Nassau grouper ...
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2007 IUCN Red List – Search
Belize: fishery management and conservation needs. Fisheries, October 2001: 23-10 Sedberry G.R., Stevenson D.E. and Chapman R.W. 1996. Stock identification in potentially threatened species of grouper ...
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NURP Research: In the Spotlight
Studying the Nassau Grouper Spawning Aggregations The Bahamas - The key to rebuilding and conserving this important fishery resource. Why Can We ...
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Cayman Islands, REEF Announce Plans to Preserve Endangered Nassau Grouper | Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF)
Nassau grouper spawning aggregations. ``The Cayman Islands have perhaps the largest remaining spawning aggregation of Nassau grouper in the world,'' said Dr. Brice Semmens, ... Nassau grouper must congregate in order to reproduce, they make an easy target for fishermen looking for a large catch. We support REEF's efforts protect their spawning sites ...
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REEF Helps Cayman Islands Grouper Gain Reprieve | Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF)
Lad@reef.org  In December 2003, legislation was passed to protect grouper spawning aggregations throughout the Cayman Islands over the next eight years. The new legislation succeeds ... status of grouper spawning aggregations in the Cayman Islands. Over the last three years, REEF has worked with the Cayman Islands Department of Environment (CIDOE) to study the Nassau grouper aggregation ...
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NCMC Conservation News - A Bottom Up Approach for Designating Marine Reserves, or Marine Protected Areas, as a Fishery Management Tool
The Council originally recommended closing the known spawning area to all types of fishing. But the specific problem was that gag grouper ... grouper. Excluding these surface fisheries would have resulted in no additional protection to gag grouper and was thus unjustifiable. The Council lost a legal challenge to its arbitrary closure and now the spawning ...
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2007 IUCN Red List – 2004 Photo Gallery
Photo © Robert Puschendorf. Nassau Grouper (Epinephelus striatus) is a large, coral reef fish occurring from Bermuda and Florida throughout ... fished both commercially and recreationally, with much of the catch coming from spawning aggregations. Suitable habitat for this grouper is also believed to be in decline, with 29% of coral reef ...
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Office of Habitat Conservation
U.S. Virgin Islands. NOAA Fisheries Service made a temporary ruling to close a known yellowfin grouper spawning aggregation ... MPA's as a management tool to protect spawning aggregations of gag grouper (Mycteroperca microlepis). Additional information. In the Pacific, spawning aggregation work has been mainly funded through ...
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Coral Reef Health and Vitality Observations
Groupers appeared to be collecting for spawning as well. Corals ñ most corals are afflicted by ... juveniles, blue ring angelfish, many species of grouper (a lot of the blue-lined grouper), vast amounts of mazed rabbitfish, parrotfish, ... - the topography and depth lend themselves perfectly to large aggregations of damsels, parrot, surgeon, butterflyfish, wrasses. The biodiversity within ...
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Endangered Species International
Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific is considered to be a particular threat because such aggregations evidently represent all annual reproductive activity. These aggregations ... specific purpose of reproducing. The best-known examples are certain species of grouper and snapper, although there are also surgeonfish, rabbitfish, parrotfish, wrasse and others ...
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