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Studying Nassau Grouper Spawning Aggregations
This highlights the importance of sustaining spawning aggregations for protecting stocks throughout an entire region. Furthermore, a comparison of the characteristics of fish at current spawning aggregations to characteristics of fish at the same spawning aggregations ...
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Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department
The project includes a team of collaborators from the Belize Department of Fisheries, Coastal Zone ...
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NCMC Conservation News - A Bottom Up Approach for Designating Marine Reserves, or Marine Protected Areas, as a Fishery Management Tool
Fishery Management Council proposed a closed area to protect spawning aggregations of gag grouper. The Council originally recommended closing the known spawning area to all types of fishing. But the specific ... unjustifiable. The Council lost a legal challenge to its arbitrary closure and now the spawning area is closed to bottom fishing only. RECOMMENDATIONS We believe that four basic questions ...
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2007 IUCN Red List – 2004 Photo Gallery
The species is 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 ...
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2007 IUCN Red List – Search
(Sadovy and Eklund 1999) is also worrying given that targeted aggregations have evidently collapsed in many countries. Suitable habitat for ... 1) Are traditional aggregation sites special or can aggregations form in new areas ? 2) Does reproduction in the Nassau grouper only occur in spawning aggregations and if this is the case, do ...
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HBOI | Press Relations | Deep-Spied Fish - Atlantic Expeditions Uncover Secret Sex Life of Deep-Sea Nomads
If there are pelagic spawning aggregations at the ridge or other prominent features, they are likely to be critical to the ... , but also likely to become primary trawling targets, which could lead to devastating effects on spawning aggregations. "It's important that we explore and map out these hotspots before fishing stretches into ...
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Ecosystem Assessment Division
These corals are especially vulnerable to ...
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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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Office of Habitat Conservation
Management and Spawning Aggregations Background Many reef fishes, such as groupers, parrotfish, wrasses, snappers, and surgeonfishes, form spawning aggregations. A spawning aggregation occurs when a large number of fish come together temporarily at specific sites to reproduce. There are two main types of spawning aggregations: Resident aggregations ...
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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 ... the dynamics of aggregation formation. For instance, spawning aggregations of some small wrasses may consist of just ten individuals spawning close to their normal home range on ...
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