Volume 69

Recovery of Nassau Grouper in the Cayman Islands: Predicting Future Population Levels


Authors
Waterhouse, L., J. Steward, C. Pattengill-Semmens, C, McCoy, B. Johnson,S. Happell, and B. X. Semmens
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Date: November, 2016


Pages: 331 - 332


Event: Proceedings of the Sixty eigth Annual Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute


City: Grand Cayman


Country: Cayman Islands

Abstract

Species which form aggregations to spawn, such as Nassau Grouper (Epinephelus striatus), are easily depleted by harvest during spawning (Sala et al. 2001). As such, many management agencies have adopted management actions to temper over-fishing, including: closures during spawning periods, marine protected areas at aggregation sites, and even complete elimination of harvest (Sadovy and Eklund 1999). In many cases these management actions occur after the population is seriously depleted. The challenge in assessing the effectiveness of such management thus lies largely in the development of accurate estimates of stock size and changes through time, as well as appropriate strategy evaluation.

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