Life History of Silver Perch Bairdiella chrysoura (Lacepède, 1803) in North-Central Gulf of Mexico Estuaries

Age, growth, and reproduction of Southern Kingfish (Menticirrhus americanus): a multivariate comparison with life history patterns in other sciaenids

“…Therefore, fi sh that contained oocytes in the OM stage may have been more vulnerable to capture than fi sh with POFs. Similar differences in spawning frequency between methods were noted in the late season of Silver Perch (Grammer et al, 2009), where the OM method revealed an estimated 1.6 days between spawnings and the POF method indicated an estimated 16 days between spawnings. Although Grammer et al (2009) stated their results may have been a function of low sample size (n=16), our study had a larger sample size (n=59) that should not have been a contributing factor to the large difference observed.…”

“…Similar differences in spawning frequency between methods were noted in the late season of Silver Perch (Grammer et al, 2009), where the OM method revealed an estimated 1.6 days between spawnings and the POF method indicated an estimated 16 days between spawnings. Although Grammer et al (2009) stated their results may have been a function of low sample size (n=16), our study had a larger sample size (n=59) that should not have been a contributing factor to the large difference observed. Interestingly, on the basis of percentage of spawning fi sh captured (OM method), spawning frequency of Southern Kingfi sh from Georgia also was highest at the beginning of the reproductive season (March and April;McDowell and Robillard, 2013).…”

Spawning Aggregation of Beardfish, Polymixia lowei, in a Deep-water Sinkhole off the Florida Keys

“…The proposed reproductive terminology appears to be applicable to all fishes, from primitive to more evolved, regardless of reproductive strategy or gender. Indeed, this terminology has recently been used to describe the reproductive cycle of an elasmobranch (thornback ray: Serra-Pereira et al 2011), a freshwater teleost (threespine stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus: Brown-Peterson and Heins 2009), and several marine teleosts (e.g., silver perch Bairdiella chrysoura: Grammer et al 2009; spotted seatrout: Lowerre- red snapper: Brown-Peterson et al 2009 andBrulé et al 2010;beardfish Polymixia lowei: Baumberger et al 2010). It is our strong hope that researchers studying fish reproduction will adopt this terminology for the purpose of improving communication among those in fish-related disciplines.…”

“…For coldwater batch spawners with determinate fecundity, such as the Dover sole, the presence of recent POFs during the actively spawning subphase may not indicate daily spawning (Hunter et al 1992). However, in warmwater batch spawners with indeterminate fecundity, the presence of recent POFs in the same ovary with oocytes undergoing OM can suggest daily spawning (Hunter et al 1986;Grammer et al 2009) since for these species all oocytes in a batch normally undergo rapid OM and are released in the same single spawning event (Brown-Peterson 2003;Jackson et al 2006). Differences in reproductive strategies (including the time that it takes individual species to complete OM) and differing research objectives related to the dynamics of spawning may necessitate the adjustment or creation of subphases within the spawning capable phase in addition to the actively spawning subphase we present here.…”

Coastal Habitats of the Gulf of Mexico

“…Because of their economic importance in commercial and recreational fisheries, the Sciaenidae, Penaeidae, and Portunidae are among the best studied of the nekton commonly found on estuarine flats (e.g., Gilmore 1987;McMichael and Peters 1989;Grammer et al 2009;Rooker et al 1999;Pérez-Castañeda and Defeo 2001;Luna et al 2009). Other epibenthic species of nekton that are particularly well adapted to intertidal and subtidal flat habitats in GoM estuaries are the stingrays (e.g., Dasyatis sabina, D. say) and several species within the flatfish families Achiridae (e.g., Achirus lineatus), Cynoglossidae (e.g., Symphurus plagusia), and Paralichthyidae (e.g., Citharichthys spilopterus), which are widely distributed in both the northern and southern GoM (Contreras-Espinosa and Castañeda-Lopez 2007).…”