MANGROVES AS ESSENTIAL NURSERY HABITAT FOR GOLIATH GROUPER (EPINEPHELUS ITAJARA)

By C. Koenig, F. Coleman, A. Eklund, J. Schull, Jeff Ueland. 2007

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Goliath grouper Epinephelus itajara sound production and movement patterns on aggregation sites (2009, background): “…to 1 ind., showed that the fish was resident at the aggregation site for 2 mo (the duration of the record), traveling out of the range of the receiver for less than 1 d. Goliath groupers show strong site fidelity in both the adult and juvenile stages (Koenig et al. 2007, C. C. Koenig unpubl. data).”
The role of seagrass meadows, mangrove forests, salt marshes and reed beds as nursery areas and food sources for fishes in estuaries (2017, background): “…is also very important, e.g. the home ranges of goliath grouper Epinephelus itajara were smaller and their growth rates significantly higher in mangrove habitat around islands in the Everglades National Park (Florida, USA) than mangroves in riverine areas of this system (Koenig et al. 2007).”
Mangrove use by the invasive lionfish Pterois volitans (2010, background): “…recruitment (Albins & Hixon 2008), it is highly likely that their presence in mangrove habitat poses an immediate threat to economically and ecologically important fish families (e.g. Scaridae, Serranidae) utilizing mangrove systems as nursery habitat (Mumby et al. 2004, 2007, Koenig et al. 2007).”
Fishing groupers towards extinction: a global assessment of threats and extinction risks in a billion dollar fishery (2013, methodology): “In 1994, the IUCN adopted a set of criteria that uses quantitative thresholds for the placement of species into threat categories based on guidelines originally proposed by Mace and Lande (1991). These criteria have been refined and improved through a broad consensus into the current version in use ”