Browsing by Subject "red snapper"
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(2013-05-08)As a highly targeted species, red snapper have been overfished since the 1970’s. Inadequate monitoring and reporting of discard rates impedes regulatory measures which are in place to allow red snapper populations to reach ...
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(2009-05-15)Juvenile red snapper are attracted to structure and settle onto low profile reefs, which serve as nursery grounds. Little is known about their life history during this time. However, recent studies from a shell bank in the ...
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(2017-11-14)This study examined the feeding ecology of two reef fishes using gut content and stable isotope analyses to assess the role of artificial reefs as foraging habitat in the Northwest Gulf of Mexico (GoM). Reefs were divided ...
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(2012-12-01)Red Snapper, Lutjanus campechanus, are the most economically important reef fish in the Gulf of Mexico. Population assessments that began in the mid-1980’s found red snapper to be severely overfished and lead to extensive ...