Fish spawning aggregations: where well-placed management actions can yield big benefits for fisheries and conservation

Egg boons: central components of marine fatty acid food webs

(2015) Lee A. Fuiman et al.   ECOLOGY

A comparison of fishing activities between two coastal communities within a biosphere reserve in the Upper Gulf of California

(2015) Brad Erisman et al.   FISHERIES RESEARCH

Designing Marine Reserves for Fisheries Management, Biodiversity Conservation, and Climate Change Adaptation

(2014) Alison L. Green et al.   COASTAL MANAGEMENT

Hot moments in spawning aggregations: implications for ecosystem-scale nutrient cycling

(2014) Stephanie K. Archer et al.   CORAL REEFS

The influence of gear selectivity and spawning behavior on a data-poor assessment of a spawning aggregation fishery

(2014) Brad E. Erisman et al.   FISHERIES RESEARCH

Interannual changes in the timing of walleye pollock spawning migration and their impacts on the gillnet fishery in the southwestern Pacific coast of Hokkaido, Donan area, Japan

(2014) Osamu Shida et al.   FISHERIES SCIENCE

Fish populations forming transient spawning aggregations: should spawners always be the targets of spatial protection efforts?

(2014) Arnaud Grüss et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Conservation and fisheries effects of spawning aggregation marine protected areas: What we know, where we should go, and what we need to get there

(2014) Arnaud Grüss et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Multispecies spawning sites for fishes on a low-latitude coral reef: spatial and temporal patterns

(2014) J. A. B. Claydon et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features

(2014) Graham J. Edgar et al.   NATURE

Spawning Dynamics and Associated Management Implications for Atlantic Cod

(2014) Douglas R. Zemeckis et al.   NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES MANAGEMENT

Migratory Animals Couple Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning Worldwide

(2014) S. Bauer et al.   SCIENCE

Manta alfredi target multispecies surgeonfish spawning aggregations

(2013) J. A. Hartup et al.   CORAL REEFS

Dispersal of Grouper Larvae Drives Local Resource Sharing in a Coral Reef Fishery

(2013) Glenn R. Almany et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

History and co-management of the artisanal mutton snapper (Lutjanus analis) spawning aggregation fishery at Gladden Spit, Belize, 1950–2011

(2013) Pablo Granados-Dieseldorff et al.   FISHERIES RESEARCH

Informing the vulnerability of species to spawning aggregation fishing using commercial catch data

(2013) Andrew Tobin et al.   FISHERIES RESEARCH

Visualizing Samsonfish (Seriola hippos) with a Reson 7125 Seabat multibeam sonar

(2013) M. J. G. Parsons et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Pacific herring Clupea pallasii and wrack macrophytes subsidize semi-terrestrial detritivores

(2013) CH Fox et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Documenting recovery of a spawning aggregation through size frequency analysis from underwater laser calipers measurements

(2012) Scott A. Heppell et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Apex predators target mutton snapper spawning aggregation

(2012) R. T. Graham et al.   CORAL REEFS

Larval Export from Marine Reserves and the Recruitment Benefit for Fish and Fisheries

(2012) Hugo B. Harrison et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Assessing the effects of large mobile predators on ecosystem connectivity

(2012) Douglas J. McCauley et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Fishing groupers towards extinction: a global assessment of threats and extinction risks in a billion dollar fishery

(2012) Yvonne Sadovy de Mitcheson et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

The global contribution of forage fish to marine fisheries and ecosystems

(2012) Ellen K Pikitch et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

The voice of the fishermen of the Gulf of Honduras: Improving regional fisheries management through fisher participation

(2012) William D. Heyman et al.   FISHERIES RESEARCH

Sound production as an indicator of red hind density at a spawning aggregation

(2012) TJ Rowell et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Disruption of an Atlantic Cod Spawning Aggregation Resulting from the Opening of a Directed Gill-Net Fishery

(2012) Micah J. Dean et al.   NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES MANAGEMENT

Dispersal of Adult Black Marlin (Istiompax indica) from a Great Barrier Reef Spawning Aggregation

(2012) Michael L. Domeier et al.   PLoS One

When good intentions are not enough … Insights on networks of “paper park” marine protected areas

(2012) Alexis N. Rife et al.   Conservation Letters

Spatio-temporal dynamics of a fish spawning aggregation and its fishery in the Gulf of California

(2012) Brad Erisman et al.   Scientific Reports

Community-based conservation results in the recovery of reef fish spawning aggregations in the Coral Triangle

(2011) R.J. Hamilton et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Socio-economic value and community benefits from shark-diving tourism in Palau: A sustainable use of reef shark populations

(2011) G.M.S. Vianna et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The illusion of plenty: hyperstability masks collapses in two recreational fisheries that target fish spawning aggregations

(2011) Brad E. Erisman et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

Effects of sex change on the implications of marine reserves for fisheries

(2011) Neil C. S. Chan et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Flow and transport characteristics at an Epinephelus guttatus (red hind grouper) spawning aggregation site in St. Thomas (US Virgin Islands)

(2011) L.M. Cherubin et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Gag grouper, marine reserves, and density-dependent sex change in the Gulf of Mexico

(2011) Robert D. Ellis et al.   FISHERIES RESEARCH

Adaptive Significance of the Formation of Multi-Species Fish Spawning Aggregations near Submerged Capes

(2011) Mandy Karnauskas et al.   PLoS One

Large Recovery of Fish Biomass in a No-Take Marine Reserve

(2011) Octavio Aburto-Oropeza et al.   PLoS One

The Making of a Productivity Hotspot in the Coastal Ocean

(2011) Dana K. Wingfield et al.   PLoS One

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

(2011) James A. Estes et al.   SCIENCE

Frugal conservation: What does it take to detect changes in fish populations?

(2010) Philip P. Molloy et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Seasonal, annual, and long-term trends in commercial fisheries for aggregating reef fishes in the Gulf of California, Mexico

(2010) Brad Erisman et al.   FISHERIES RESEARCH

Stock collapses and their recovery: mechanisms that establish and maintain life-cycle closure in space and time

(2010) P. Petitgas et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Prediction and verification of possible reef-fish spawning aggregation sites in Los Roques Archipelago National Park, Venezuela

(2010) J. Boomhower et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Mapping bathymetric and hydrographic features of Glover's Reef, Belize, with a REMUS autonomous underwater vehicle

(2010) Andrey Y. Shcherbina et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Diver ecotourism and disturbance to reef fish spawning aggregations: It is better to be disturbed than to be dead

(2010) WD Heyman et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Sea bottom geomorphology of multi-species spawning aggregation sites in Belize

(2010) S Kobara et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Modeling and observations of high-frequency flow variability and internal waves at a Caribbean reef spawning aggregation site

(2010) Tal Ezer et al.   OCEAN DYNAMICS

Seamounts are hotspots of pelagic biodiversity in the open ocean

(2010) T. Morato et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Detecting larval export from marine reserves

(2010) R. A. Pelc et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A noisy spring: the impact of globally rising underwater sound levels on fish

(2010) Hans Slabbekoorn et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Animal migration: linking models and data beyond taxonomic limits

(2009) S. Bauer et al.   Biology Letters

Cruzan fishers’ perspectives on the performance of the Buck Island Reef National Monument and the red hind seasonal closure

(2009) C. Karras et al.   OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

A Global Baseline for Spawning Aggregations of Reef Fishes

(2008) YVONNE SADOVY DE MITCHESON et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

The decline and recovery of four predatory fishes from the Southern California Bight

(2008) Daniel J. Pondella et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Morphological and behavioural correlates of reproductive success in Atlantic cod Gadus morhua

(2008) S Rowe et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

ECOLOGY: How Reefs Respond to Mass Coral Spawning

(2008) J. Guest   SCIENCE

Predicting ecological consequences of marine top predator declines

(2008) Michael R. Heithaus et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Going, Going, Gone: Is Animal Migration Disappearing

(2008) David S Wilcove et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY