Spotted sea trout. Photo credit: Evan D’Alessandro (Univ. of Miami)
Spawning Aggregations in Palau
Austin Richards awarded Timothy Baker Fellowship Award
Click here to read more about our very own Semester By the Sea student, Austin Richards.
Our research was featured on Science and the Sea, UTMSI’s audio program.
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Our research was mentioned on the NPR radio show “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me”.
Click Here to listen to the audio clip (4:55-5:53).
Gigging for Sheepshead
Click here to learn about our recent gigging trip with Seeing Red Charters.
Mapping of Seatrout Spawning Habitats
Our new project on mapping of seatrout spawning habitat gets some local press!
UT Article on Our New Film on Spawning Aggregations
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Using Sound to Estimate Fish Abundance: Read our new publication
Sound produced by fish spawning aggregations permits the use of passive acoustic methods to identify the timing and location of spawning, but estimating fish abundance directly from sound levels has proved challenging. In our new publication we show that models of measure fish sound production versus independently measured fish density can be generated to estimate abundance and biomass from sound levels at aggregations.
New Website on Gulf of Mexico Spawning Aggregations!
Our new data portal offers the best available data and information relevant to the biology, fisheries, monitoring and management of spawning aggregations in the Gulf of Mexico. The site was funded by the NOAA RESTORE Act Science Program.
Check out our newest publication on spawning aggregation fisheries!
For marine fishes that form spawning aggregations, vulnerability to aggregation fishing is influenced by interactions between the spatio-temporal patterns of spawning and aspects of the fishery that determine fishing effort, catch, and catch rate in relation to spawning. In our new publication, we assess the vulnerability of the Barred Sand Bass (Paralabrax nebulifer) to a local commercial fishery in Punta Abreojos, Mexico.
Can Sound Save a Fish?
Gulf Corvina look pretty ordinary—they’re a couple of feet long and silvery. Yet the sounds they make—when millions get together to spawn—are a kind of wonder of the natural world. It’s also why they are in danger. Learn more by listening to audio article on our research by Marc Airhart.
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