(CN) — Fisheries targeting coral reefs north of the Maldives could be jeopardizing the health of squaretail grouper populations by scaring fish away from their mating sites, according to a new study ...

Each spring, an immense breeding migration culminates in the northernmost portions of the Gulf of California at a reserve near the Colorado River delta. Synchronized with the tides two to five days ...

The Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus), a large-bodied top predator, was once the most abundant and commercially important fish in the Caribbean. Each winter, the groupers gather en masse at ...

Populations of squaretail grouper face an uncertain future as new research shows fishing that targets their spawning sites is causing males to be repeatedly scared away from their territories during ...

Image caption: Nassau grouper spawning aggregation off Little Cayman, Cayman Islands. Each winter off the western tip of the Caribbean island of Little Cayman, thousands of endangered Nassau grouper ...

A couple of months each year, groupers (Epinephelidae) gather in the hundreds and even thousands to mate under the full moon. This concentrated nature and short duration of mating, however, renders ...

The researchers developed the method specifically for the Gulf corvina, a popular fish in Mexico’s Gulf of California Marine scientists have discovered a way to use the incredibly loud, distinctive ...

A more than 30-year marine conservation effort in the U.S. Virgin Islands helped aid the recovery of a fish species important in commercial, recreational and subsistence fisheries, a new study found.

A new study provides the first detailed documentation of a shallow-water fish diving 450 feet deep to spawn. Uncovering this very rare spawning behavior in bonefish (Albula vulpes) is unprecedented.

This study provided a first detailed description of the acoustic calls and the possible sound production mechanism in the Giant Sea Bass (Stereolepis gigas). Passive acoustic (hydrophone) recordings ...