Relative Abundance and Distribution of Common Snook along Shoreline Habitats of Florida Estuaries

Winner, Brent L.; Blewett, David A.; McMichael, Robert H.; Guenther, Cameron B.

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“…However, the popularity of recreational fishing adds pressure to Florida's natural resources: fish and coastal habitats. Many studies focus on the life history (McMichael et al ; Taylor et al ), fishery stocks and trends (Tringali & Bert ), and habitat preferences (Stevens et al ; Winner et al ) of common snook because they are a popular gamefish. Common snook populations started to decline in the 1950s (Marshall ), due, in part, to loss of more than half of high‐quality mangrove habitat (Bruger & Haddad ) and the species' susceptibility to extreme cold events (Stevens et al ).…”

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Fish community composition and diversity at restored estuarine habitats in Tampa Bay, Florida, United States

Schaberg

Patterson

Hill

et al. 2018

Restoration Ecology

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Estuary restoration in Tampa Bay, Florida, United States, is an ongoing focus of natural resource managers because of pressure from an increasing coastal population, historic habitat loss, and restoration's importance to economic development, recreational activities, and fish habitat. A growing population can also limit future large‐scale restorations due to associations with cost and land availability. This limitation might be overcome by applying the habitat mosaic approach to restoration, which creates distinct habitat types at small spatial scales. This approach was applied to create three types of estuarine habitat, reconnected tidal creek, salt marsh, and tidal pond. The objectives of this study were to (1) initiate monitoring of a restored wetland mosaic and (2) determine how fish diversity and community structure vary among restored habitat types. Replicated sampling using a 3‐mm mesh seine was used to characterize the fish communities. Our results indicate that the habitat mosaic approach creates suitable habitat for a variety of fish species where 37% of fish species were captured in just one habitat type. In particular, the recreationally important Centropomus undecimalis (common snook) was more common in the mangrove‐lined creek and the non‐native Sarotherodon melanotheron (blackchin tilapia) was common in the tidal pond. Greater emphasis should be placed on applied restoration research to identify how habitat types within a larger restoration mosaic contribute to local species diversity and recreationally and commercially important fishes, while limiting non‐natives. This emphasis could reveal how restoration approaches can be modified to include habitat mosaics, maximizing their contribution to productive fish habitat.

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Fish community composition and diversity at restored estuarine habitats in Tampa Bay, Florida, United States

Schaberg

Patterson

Hill

et al. 2018

Restoration Ecology

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“…All Red Drum from small-seine samples were enumerated and a subsample measured for length (mm SL). We targeted large juvenile and subadult Red Drum (100-800-mm TL) using large haul seines (183 m long, 38-mm knotted nylon mesh; hereafter, "large seines") from 1996 through 2008 along shoreline habitats of the bay (McMichael 2008;Winner et al 2010;Figure 1b). A subsample of Red Drum was retained from large-seine sets for life history analyses (see below), and the remainder of the fish were enumerated, measured for length (mm SL), and released alive.…”

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Multidecadal Evidence of Recovery of Nearshore Red Drum Stocks off West‐Central Florida and Connectivity with Inshore Nurseries

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Flaherty-Walia

Switzer

et al. 2014

N American J Fish Manag

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The importance of defining and quantifying ontogenetic movements and connectivity between juvenile and adult fish populations, especially for exploited species, has been well documented. Furthermore, the persistence of strong year‐classes can be used to track the success of regulations that contribute to the increased survival and escapement of fish into the adult population. Size and age structures of Red Drum Sciaenops ocellatus were documented within the Tampa Bay estuary, in southwest Florida, using haul seines and trammel nets (1989–2008), and in nearshore Gulf of Mexico waters using a commercial purse seine (2005–2008). In the estuary, juvenile Red Drum (<100‐mm TL) were collected from low‐salinity backwater areas, and peaks in the annual relative abundance were apparent. In the estuary, Red Drum older than age 4 (>800‐mm TL) were rare. Red Drum from nearshore gulf waters ranged from 2 to 35 years of age (674–1,074‐mm TL), but most were greater than age 4. After back‐calculating ages from Red Drum collected in the estuary and in nearshore gulf waters, we found that specific year‐classes of Red Drum, driven by strong juvenile recruitment, were disproportionately represented in the adult spawning stock. We evaluated the long‐term effectiveness of fishing regulations as a tool for rebuilding local adult Red Drum stocks by comparing data on size and age structures with results from earlier research conducted in the same geographic area. Adult Red Drum in nearshore waters off Tampa Bay were significantly longer, heavier, and older than were individuals collected a decade earlier, suggesting rebuilding of local Red Drum stocks. These observations validate the utility of long‐term, multigear monitoring efforts to track populations from the estuary to nearshore coastal waters.Received June 27, 2013; accepted April 1, 2014

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“…The presence of long-term abiotic monitoring networks in Everglades National Park estuaries through the Florida Coastal Everglades Long Term Ecological Research Network provide for detailed water temperature observations across a variety of habitats. Likewise, Snook make a good candidate species to assess how a species distribution and movements could influence vulnerability to disturbance because: (i) Snook are distributed throughout the entire estuary (Winner, Blewett, McMichael, & Guenther, 2010); (ii) are sensitive to cold temperatures, similar to many other tropical species (Stevens et al, 2016); and (iii) portions of the population move across a variety of habitats (rivers, estuary, ocean passes, offshore reefs) to spawn (Lowerre-Barbieri et al, 2014), and take advantage of seasonal availability of prey (Blewett, Stevens, & Carter, 2017;Boucek, Soula, Tamayo, & Rehage, 2016), which places them in different areas of the estuary throughout the year.…”

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Can animal habitat use patterns influence their vulnerability to extreme climate events? An estuarine sportfish case study

Boucek

Heithaus

Santos

et al. 2017

Global Change Biology

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Global climate forecasts predict changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme climate events (ECEs). The capacity for specific habitat patches within a landscape to modulate stressors from extreme climate events, and animal distribution throughout habitat matrices during events, could influence the degree of population level effects following the passage of ECEs. Here, we ask (i) does the intensity of stressors of an ECE vary across a landscape? And (ii) Do habitat use patterns of a mobile species influence their vulnerability to ECEs? Specifically, we measured how extreme cold spells might interact with temporal variability in habitat use to affect populations of a tropical, estuarine-dependent large-bodied fish Common Snook, within Everglades National Park estuaries (FL US). We examined temperature variation across the estuary during cold disturbances with different degrees of severity, including an extreme cold spell. Second, we quantified Snook distribution patterns when the passage of ECEs is most likely to occur from 2012 to 2016 using passive acoustic tracking. Our results revealed spatial heterogeneity in the intensity of temperature declines during cold disturbances, with some habitats being consistently 3-5°C colder than others. Surprisingly, Snook distributions during periods of greatest risk to experience an extreme cold event varied among years. During the winters of 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 a greater proportion of Snook occurred in the colder habitats, while the winters of 2012-2013 and 2015-2016 featured more Snook observed in the warmest habitats. This study shows that Snook habitat use patterns could influence vulnerability to extreme cold events, however, whether Snook habitat use increases or decreases their vulnerability to disturbance depends on the year, creating temporally dynamic vulnerability. Faunal global change research should address the spatially explicit nature of extreme climate events and animal habitat use patterns to identify potential mechanisms that may influence population effects following these disturbances.

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Relative Abundance and Distribution of Common Snook along Shoreline Habitats of Florida Estuaries

Cited by 43 publications

References 11 publications

Fish community composition and diversity at restored estuarine habitats in Tampa Bay, Florida, United States

Fish community composition and diversity at restored estuarine habitats in Tampa Bay, Florida, United States

Multidecadal Evidence of Recovery of Nearshore Red Drum Stocks off West‐Central Florida and Connectivity with Inshore Nurseries

Can animal habitat use patterns influence their vulnerability to extreme climate events? An estuarine sportfish case study

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