Age, Growth, and Natural Mortality of Rock Hind, Epinephelus Adscensionis, from the Gulf of Mexico

Age, Growth and Natural Mortality of Blackfin Snapper Lutjanus buccanella from the Southeastern United States and U. S. Caribbean

“…The sections were viewed under a dissecting microscope at 12.5X using reflected light. Each sample was assigned an opaque zone count by an experienced reader with extensive experience interpreting otolith sections (Burton 2001(Burton , 2002Burton et al 2012). Sections were read with no knowledge of date of capture or fish size.…”

“…Adults typically inhabit the continental shelf edge or live-bottom areas in depths from 9-219 m. Blackfin Snapper are of minor importance to the southeastern United States (SEUS, North Carolina to Florida Keys, including the Dry Tortugas) reef fish fishery but are more important to anglers in the U.S. Caribbean (Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Estimated recreational landings of Blackfin Snapper in the SEUS averaged 1,006 kg from 1981-2014, while landings from the private/ charter sector in Puerto Rico averaged 5,178 fish annually from 2000-2012. Commercial landings for the SEUS averaged 386 kg from 1982-2014 but were 22,750 kg annually from 2000-2014 for the U.S. Caribbean (D. Gloeckner, unpublished data, NMFS Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC), Miami, FL).…”

Life history demographic parameter synthesis for exploited Florida and Caribbean coral reef fishes

“…Atlantic Creolefish Posada and Appeldoorn (1996) (1) (0) Graysby Potts and Manooch (1999) (3) Potts and Manooch (1999) (2) Nagelkerken (1979) (1) Red Hind Cushion (2010) (2) a Sadovy, Figuerola, and Roman (1992) (2) Sadovy, Rosario, and Roman (1994) (2) Rock Hind Potts and Manooch (1995) (1) a Burton, Potts, and Carr (2012) (2) (0) Scamp Lombardi, Cook, Lyon, Barnett, and Bullock (2012) (3) Matheson, Huntsman, and Manooch (1986) (2) Lombardi et al (2012) (2) Snowy SEDAR (2013) (3) SEDAR (2013) (2) SEDAR (2013) (2) Speckled Hind Ziskin, Harris, Wyanski, and Reichert (2011) (3) Ziskin (2008) (2) Ziskin et al (2011) (2) Tiger Garcia, Sierra, and Claro (1999) (2) Garcia et al (1999) (2) Caballero, Brule, Noh-Quinones, Colas-Marrufo, and Perez-Diaz (2013) (2) Warsaw Manooch and Mason (1987) (1) Manooch and Mason (1987) (2) Manooch (1984) ( Yellowmouth Burton, Potts, and Carr (2014) (3) Burton et al (2014) (2) Bullock and Murphy (1994) (1) Snappers Black Thompson and Munro (1983) (1) (0) Thompson and Munro (1983) (1) Blackfin Burton, Potts, and Carr (2016) (2) Burton et al (2016) (2) Thompson and Munro (1983) (1) Thompson and Munro (1983) (1) Cubera (3) (2) Baisre and Paez...…”

“…Smooth Trunkfish (0) Bohnsack and Harper (1988) (2) (1988) (2) Tapia, Yanez-Arancibia, Sanchez-Gil, and Garcia-Abad (1995) (1) a Citations for maximum age estimates when the maximum age estimate was not obtained from the preferred length-age study: Misty grouper (Luckhurst & Dean, 2009); Red hind (Sadovy et al, 1992); Rock hind (Burton et al, 2012); Dog snapper ; Pigfish (Taylor, 1916) TA B L E 6 (Continued) value for L m , the length at 50% maturity, whereas the length-at-maturity function and its uncertainty would be of much higher utility for stock assessments. This is especially critical for data-limited stock assessment packages such as DLMtool, which include data-limited approaches that require estimates of 50% and 95% maturity as well as estimates of their uncertainty (Carruthers et al, 2014;Sagarese et al, 2018).…”

Age, growth, and mortality of gray triggerfish (Balistes capriscus) from the southeastern United States

“…As another strategy to address the lack of smaller, younger fish and the effect this deficiency may have on estimation of the early part of the growth curve, we recommend estimating growth parameters with a fixed t 0 value, such as −0.5 (Burton et al, 2012) or zero (Burton et al, 2014). This method has the effect of pulling the growth curve down to simulate smaller length at age for fish at the youngest ages.…”