Spawning aggregation dynamics of brown-marbled grouper and camouflage grouper at a remote Indian Ocean atoll

Endangered Species Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 145-157

  Bijoux, Jude ^a,b,e   Dagorn, Laurent ^a   Cowley, Paul D ^b   Simier, Monique ^c   Adam, Pierre André ^d   Robinson, Jan ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d Island Conservation Society   (Seychelles)

^e Seychelles Fishing Authority   (Seychelles)

^f JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Epinephelus; Groupers; Lunar and diel periodicity; Residence time; Seychelles; Site fidelity; Spawning aggregation dynamics

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; ATOLL; CORAL REEF; ENDANGERED SPECIES; PERCIFORM; PERIODICITY; RESIDENCE TIME; SITE FIDELITY; SPAWNING; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

SEYCHELLES;

ANTHOZOA; EPINEPHELINAE; EPINEPHELUS; EPINEPHELUS FUSCOGUTTATUS; EPINEPHELUS POLYPHEKADION; PISCES;

EID: 84905866663     PISSN: 18635407     EISSN: 16134796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/esr00534     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Aguilar-Perera A (2006) Disappearance of a Nassau grouper spawning aggregation off the southern Mexican Carib -bean coast. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 327: 289-296
2. Almany GR, Hamilton RJ, Bode M, Matawai M and others (2013) Dispersal of grouper larvae drives local resource sharing in a coral reef fishery. Curr Biol 23: 626-630
3. Alós J (2008) Influence of anatomical hooking depth, capture depth, and venting on mortality of painted comber (Serranus scriba) released by recreational anglers. ICES J Mar Sci 65: 1620-1625
4. Batschelet E (1981) Circular statistics in biology. Academic Press, London
5. Beets J, Friedlander A (1999) Evaluation of a conservation strategy: a spawning aggregation closure for red hind, Epinephelus guttatus, in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Environ Biol Fishes 55: 91-98
6. Bijoux JP, Dagorn L, Berke G, Cowley PD, Soria M, Gaertner JC, Robinson J (2013) Temporal dynamics, residency and site fidelity of spawning aggregations of a herbivorous tropical reef fish Siganus sutor. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 475: 233-247
7. Capello M, Soria M, Cotel P, Potin G, Dagorn L, Fréon P (2012) The heterogeneous spatial and temporal patterns of behavior of small pelagic fish in an array of Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs). J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 430-431: 56-62
8. Childs AR, Cowley PD, Næsje TF, Booth AJ, Potts WM, Thorstad EB, Økland F (2008) Estuarine use by spotted grunter Pomadasys commersonnii in a South African estuary, as determined by acoustic telemetry. Afr J Mar Sci 30: 123-132
9. Claydon J (2004) Spawning aggregations of coral reef fishes: characteristics, hypotheses, threats and management. Oceanogr Mar Biol Annu Rev 42: 265-302
10. Colin PL (2012) Timing and location of aggregation and spawning in reef fishes. In: Sadovy de Mitcheson Y, Colin PL (eds) Reef fish spawning aggregations: biology, research and management. Fish & Fisheries Ser, Vol 35. Springer, Heidelberg, p 117-158
11. Colin PL, Laroche WA, Brothers EB (1997) Ingress and settlement in the Nassau grouper, Epinephelus striatus (Pisces: Serranidae), with relationship to spawning occurrence. Bull Mar Sci 60: 656-667
12. Erisman B, Aburto-Oropeza O, Gonzalez-Abraham C, Mascarenas-Osorio I, Moreno-Baez M, Hastings PA (2012) Spatio-temporal dynamics of a fish spawning aggregation and its fishery in the Gulf of California. Sci Rep 2: 284
13. Friedlander AM, DeMartini EE (2002) Contrasts in density, size, and biomass of reef fishes between the northwestern and the main Hawaiian islands: the effects of fishing down apex predators. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 230: 253-264
14. Grandcourt E (2005) Demographic characteristics of se -lected epinepheline groupers (Family: Serranidae; Subfamily: Epinephelinae) from Aldabra atoll, Seychelles. Atoll Res Bull 539: 199-216
15. Hamilton RJ, Giningele M, Aswani S, Ecochard JL (2012) Fishing in the dark-local knowledge, night spearfishing and spawning aggregations in the western Solomon Islands. Biol Conserv 145: 246-257
16. Johannes RE, Squire L, Graham T, Sadovy Y, Renguul H (1999) Spawning aggregations of groupers (Serranidae) in Palau. Mar Conserv Res Ser Publ 1. The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA
17. Koenig CC, Coleman FC, Collins LA, Sadovy Y, Colin P (1996) Reproduction in gag (Mycteroperca microlepis) (Pisces: Serranidae) in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the consequences of fish spawning aggregations. In: Arreguin-Sanchez F, Munro JL, Balgos MC, Pauly D (eds) Biology, fisheries and culture of tropical groups and snappers. ICLARM Conf Proc 48: 307-323
18. Laird NM, Ware JH (1982) Random-effects models for longitudinal data. Biometrics 38: 963-974
19. Macpherson E, Raventos N (2006) Relationship between pelagic larval duration and geographic distribution of Mediterranean littoral fishes. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 327: 257-265
20. Mangubhai S, Saleh M, Suprayitno, Muljadi A, Purwanto, Rhodes KL, Tjandra K (2011) Do not stop: The importance of seamless monitoring and enforcement in an Indonesian marine protected area. J Mar Biol 2011 Article ID 501465
21. Nemeth RS (2005) Population characteristics of a recovering US Virgin Islands red hind spawning aggregation following protection. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 286: 81-97
22. Nemeth RS (2012) Ecosystem aspects of species that aggregate to spawn. In: Sadovy de Mitcheson Y, Colin PL (eds) Reef fish spawning aggregations: biology, research and management. Fish & Fisheries Ser, Vol 35. Springer, Heidelberg, p 21-55
23. Nemeth RS, Blondeau J, Herzlie S, Kadison E (2007) Spatial and temporal patterns of movement and migration at spawning aggregations of red hind, Epinephelus guttatus, in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Environ Biol Fishes 78: 365-381
24. Olsen DA, LaPlace JA (1979) A study of a Virgin Islands grouper fishery based on a breeding aggregation. Proc Gulf Caribb Fish Inst 31: 130-144
25. Payne NL, Gillanders BM, Webber DM, Semmens JM (2010) Interpreting diel activity patterns from acoustic telemetry: the need for controls. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 419: 295-301
26. Pears RJ (2012) Brown-marbled grouper-Epinephelus fuscoguttatus. In: Sadovy de Mitcheson Y, Colin PL (eds) Reef fish spawning aggregations: biology, research and management. Fish & Fisheries Ser, Vol 35. Springer, Heidelberg, p 406-412
27. Pears RJ, Choat JH, Mapstone BD, Begg GA (2006) Demography of a large grouper, Epinephelus fuscoguttatus, from Australia's Great Barrier Reef: implications for fishery management. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 307: 259-272
28. Pears RJ, Choat JH, Mapstone BD, Begg GA (2007) Reproductive biology of a large, aggregation-spawning serranid, Epinephelus fuscoguttatus (Forsskål): management implications. J Fish Biol 71: 795-817
29. Pet JS, Mous PJ, Muljadi AH, Sadovy YJ, Squire L (2005) Aggregations of Plectropomus areolatus and Epinephelus fuscoguttatus (groupers, Serranidae) in the Komodo National Park, Indonesia: monitoring and implications for management. Environ Biol Fishes 74: 209-218
30. Rhodes KL (2012) Camouflage grouper-Epinephelus poly -phekadion. In: Sadovy de Mitcheson Y, Colin PL (eds) Reef fish spawning aggregations: biology, research and management. Fish & Fisheries Ser, Vol 35. Springer, Heidelberg, p 422-428
31. Rhodes KL, Sadovy Y (2002a) Reproduction in the camouflage grouper, Epinephelus polyphekadion (Pisces: Serranidae), in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia. Bull Mar Sci 70: 851-869
32. Rhodes KL, Sadovy Y (2002b) Temporal and spatial trends in spawning aggregations of camouflage grouper, Epinephelus polyphekadion, in Pohnpei, Micronesia. Environ Biol Fishes 63: 27-39
33. Rhodes KL, Tupper MH (2008) The vulnerability of reproductively active squaretail coral grouper (Plectropomus areolatus) to fishing, based on acoustic and conventional tagging surveys in Pohnpei, Micronesia. Fish Bull 106: 194-203
34. Rhodes KL, Taylor BM, McIlwain JL (2011) Detailed de -mographic analysis of an Epinephelus polyphekadion spawning aggregation and fishery. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 421: 183-198
35. Rhodes KL, McIlwain J, Joseph E, Nemeth RS (2012) Reproductive movement, residency and fisheries vulnerability of brown-marbled grouper, Epinephelus fuscoguttatus (Forskkål, 1775). Coral Reefs 31: 443-453
36. Robinson J, Isidore M, Marguerite MA, Öhman MC, Payet RJ (2004) Spatial and temporal distribution of reef fish spawning aggregations in the Seychelles-an interview-based survey of artisanal fishers. West Indian Ocean J Mar Sci 3: 63-69
37. Robinson J, Aumeeruddy R, Jörgensen TL, Öhman MC (2008) Dynamics of camouflage (Epinephelus poly phe -kadion) and brown marbled grouper (Epinephelus fusco -guttatus) spawning aggregations at a remote reef site, Seychelles. Bull Mar Sci 83: 415-431
38. Russell B, Situ A, Cornish A, Grouper & Wrasse Specialist Group (2006) Epinephelus polyphekadion. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. IUCN, Gland, www. iucnredlist. org/ details/ 61339/0 (accessed 23 October 2013)
39. Sadovy Y, Domeier M (2005) Are aggregation-fisheries sustainable? Reef fish fisheries as a case study. Coral Reefs 24: 254-262
40. Sadovy de Mitcheson Y, Colin PL (2012) Conclusion. In: Sadovy de Mitcheson Y, Colin PL (eds) Reef fish spawning aggregations: biology, research and management. Fish & Fisheries Ser, Vol 35. Springer, Heidelberg, p 567-584
41. Sadovy de Mitcheson Y, Erisman B (2012) Fishery and biological implications of fishing spawning aggregations, and the social and economic importance of aggregating fishes. In: Sadovy de Mitcheson Y, Colin PL (eds) Reef fish spawning aggregations: biology, research and management. Fish & Fisheries Ser, Vol 35. Springer, Heidelberg, p 225-284
42. Sala E, Ballesteros E, Starr RM (2001) Rapid decline of Nassau grouper spawning aggregations in Belize: fishery management and conservation needs. Fish Bull 26: 23-30
43. Starr RM, Sala E, Ballesteros E, Zabala M (2007) Spatial dynamics of the Nassau grouper Epinephelus striatus in a Caribbean atoll. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 343: 239-249
44. Tupper M, Sheriff N (2008) Capture-based aquaculture of groupers. In: Lovatelli A, Holthus PF (eds) Capturebased aquaculture. Global overview. FAO Fisheries Tech Pap 508. FAO, Rome
45. Zeller DC (1998) Spawning aggregations: patterns of movement of the coral trout Plectropomus leopardus (Serra ni -dae) as determined by ultrasonic telemetry. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 162: 253-263