Despite the threat of overfishing in many fish populations, fisheries managers often lack accurate plans and quota systems to allow a sustainable harvest. Traditional methods of estimating fish ...

Image caption: Nassau grouper spawning aggregation off Little Cayman, Cayman Islands. Each winter off the western tip of the Caribbean island of Little Cayman, thousands of endangered Nassau grouper ...

ABSTRACT: Clarifying the relationship between individual energetic state and reproductive behaviour is essential for understanding the life history strategies of fish as well as for determining ...

To its own detriment, the Nassau Grouper is a creature of habit. Large and charismatic, this Caribbean fish travels great distances to mate at specific spawning sites every year. These spawning ...

(CN) — Fisheries targeting coral reefs north of the Maldives could be jeopardizing the health of squaretail grouper populations by scaring fish away from their mating sites, according to a new study ...

A couple of months each year, groupers (Epinephelidae) gather in the hundreds and even thousands to mate under the full moon. This concentrated nature and short duration of mating, however, renders ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - The National Marine Fisheries Service announced Tuesday that the Nassau grouper has been proposed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The fish face overfishing ...

A new study provides the first detailed documentation of a shallow-water fish diving 450 feet deep to spawn. Uncovering this very rare spawning behavior in bonefish (Albula vulpes) is unprecedented.

In fact, it was the spawning fish that brought Mourier and his CRIOBE colleagues to Fakarava in the first place. The channel is renowned for its grouper spawning aggregations, which take place every ...

The Nassau grouper, a commercially valuable reef fish found in the Caribbean, is now listed as critically endangered by the IUCN. Nassau groupers migrate yearly to breed at massive gatherings known as ...

A new study provides the first detailed documentation of a shallow water fish diving 450 feet deep to spawn. Uncovering this very rare spawning behavior in bonefish (Albula vulpes) is unprecedented.