Short- and long-term movement patterns of six temperate reef fishes (Families Labridae and Monacanthidae)

Barrett, Neville

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“…For NTMRs to provide sufficient buffering against exploitation, Barrett (1995) recommended their diameter be, at minimum, an order of magnitude larger than the daily movements of the targeted organisms. Mean home range sizes for the 5 snapper-grouper species studied were from 1 to 2 orders of magnitude smaller than the Tortugas NTMRs.…”

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Grouper and snapper movements and habitat use in Dry Tortugas, Florida

Farmer¹,

Ault²

2011

Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.

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Home ranges, activity patterns, and habitat preferences in and around no-take marine reserves (NTMRs) were evaluated for 5 exploited snapper-grouper species in diverse coral reef habitats in the Dry Tortugas, Florida. Movements of ultrasonic tagged reef fish were determined using a calibrated array of omnidirectional hydroacoustic receivers. Average home range sizes were 2.09 ± 0.39 km 2 (n = 28; total length, TL = 45 to 66 cm) for red grouper Epinephelus morio, 4.17 ± 1.75 km 2 (n = 5, TL = 48 to 55 cm) for yellowtail snapper Ocyurus chrysurus, 1.44 ± 1.04 km 2 (n = 2, TL = 57 to 75 cm) for black grouper Mycteroperca bonaci, and 7.64 km 2 (n = 1, TL = 70 cm) for mutton snapper Lutjanus analis. Red grouper and yellowtail snapper moved moderate distances (from 700 to 900 m) with moderate frequency. Observed movements for black groupers were relatively small and infrequent. Mutton snappers appeared to make short, frequent movements. A tracked gray snapper L. griseus made long-distance nocturnal migrations. Several exploited-phase groupers and snappers crossed into and out of reserve boundaries. They were most likely to do so in locations where boundaries were positioned over contiguous coral reef and close to home-range centers. We found that home ranges for red grouper, black grouper, and yellowtail snapper were relatively small in comparison to NTMR area. Our observations suggest that the Dry Tortugas NTMRs may reduce exposure to exploitation for these and other species with limited home ranges, especially where NTMR boundaries do not overlie contiguous reef. KEY WORDS: Acoustic tracking · Snapper-grouper complex · Movement patterns · Home range · Marine reserves · Coral reef fishesResale or republication not permitted without written consent of the publisher reef habitats and helping to sustain the region's worldclass fisheries resources. Evidence has already emerged that they are reaching their intended goals (Ault et al. 2006b).Many marine fishes repeatedly use and move throughout particular areas, or home ranges (Burt 1943), for certain periods of the year or for particular life stages (Goeden 1978, Shapiro et al. 1994, Rooij et al. 1996, Zeller 1997, Kramer & Chapman 1999, Bell & Kramer 2000, Bolden 2001, Eristhee & Oxenford 2001, Baras et al. 2002, Lembo et al. 2002, Parsons et al. 2003. Occupation by marine fishes of a particular home range within a spatially heterogeneous landscape -given increased familiarity with key habitat features -may facilitate evasion of predators and increase foraging efficiency (review in Harris et al. 1990).Quantifying short-and longer-term fish movement patterns, home ranges, and habitat use is critical for advancing understanding of the dynamics of reef-fish community ecology and for informing intelligent NTMR design (Russ & Alcala 1996, Palumbi 2001, Meester et al. 2004, O'Dor et al. 2004. Unfortunately, data of this type are extremely limited (Kramer & Chapman 1999, Meyer et al. 2007. As a result, most reserves have been implemented with little quantitative desig...

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Grouper and snapper movements and habitat use in Dry Tortugas, Florida

Farmer¹,

Ault²

2011

Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.

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“…Residency is a common behavioural pattern in reef fish from both temperate (Barrett 1995) and tropical (Roberts andPolunin 1991, Holland et al 1996) systems. However, some species have predictable migrations (Griffiths and Hecht 1995), whereas others disperse unpredictably (Attwood and Bennett 1994).…”

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Movement patterns of red steenbras Petrus rupestris tagged and released in the Tsitsikamma National Park, South Africa

Brouwer

2002

South African Journal of Marine Science

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“…VIFE tags have been shown to have a high (93%) retention rate in snapper, do not cause wound infections or the difficulties with fouling (Barrett 1995) common with dart or spaghetti tags, and can be recovered visually on multiple occasions without having to recapture the fish (Willis & Babcock 1998). Fish are identified by making multiple implants combining different tag colours and locations (Frederick 1997) which, depending on tag colour, are identifiable by divers 2-A m from the tagged fish (Willis & Babcock 1998).…”

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Evidence for long‐term site fidelity of snapper(Pagrus auratus)within a marine reserve

Willis

Parsons

Babcock

2001

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research

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Increases in the density of exploited species on unfished reefs logically implies that some individuals are at least temporarily resident, or show fidelity to a particular area. We tagged snapper (Pagrus auratus (Bloch & Schneider 1801)) in the Leigh Marine Reserve, New Zealand using visible implant fluorescent elastomer tags, recoverable by diver visual sightings without the need to recapture the fish. Batch tagging of snapper (n = 907) was done during an angling survey in June and December 1996, and individually coded tags were implanted by divers (n = 117) in January 1999. Snapper tagged during both programmes were recovered on irregular intervals from 1997 to 2000. There were 71 recoveries of batch tags within 500 m of their tagging sites, and these recoveries were still being made >3 years after tagging: Of individually coded fish, 49 (42%) were seen, sometimes repeatedly over several months, close to their respective tagging sites. These observations included snapper as small as 23 cm fork length, contradicting the commonly held impression that only large snapper take up long-term residency on reefs. This preliminary evidence suggests that some snapper exhibit site fidelity to areas only a few hundred metres wide, and in the absence of fishing may occupy the same area for years. M00059

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Short- and long-term movement patterns of six temperate reef fishes (Families Labridae and Monacanthidae)

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Grouper and snapper movements and habitat use in Dry Tortugas, Florida

Grouper and snapper movements and habitat use in Dry Tortugas, Florida

Movement patterns of red steenbras Petrus rupestris tagged and released in the Tsitsikamma National Park, South Africa

Evidence for long‐term site fidelity of snapper(Pagrus auratus)within a marine reserve

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