Movement traits important to conservation and fisheries management: an example with red snapper.

ABSTRACT: Site fidelity, space use, and dispersal are commonly estimated with acoustic telemetry (AT) to help inform management and conservation. These behaviors can change with age, habitat and environmental conditions and our ability to accurately estimate them is affected by a study's inference power (design components that affect how accurately detection data represents a species' movements). Red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) have been extensively studied with AT over a range of time periods and regions, although primarily at artificial reefs (AR). Here, we use large (> 12 km²) acoustic positioning arrays to monitor a study area with low-relief hard bottom, a reef ledge, and an AR. Annual fidelity to the study area was estimated to be 54%, but estimates were affected by fate uncertai

SUBMITTER: Lowerre-Barbieri SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11805965 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature