- Title
- Retrospective stock assessment of the Emperor red snapper (Lutjanus sebae) on the Seychelles Bank between 1977 and 2006
- Creator
- Grandcourt, E M
- Creator
- Hecht, Thomas
- Creator
- Booth, Anthony J
- Creator
- Robinson, J
- Date Issued
- 2008
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/125887
- Identifier
- vital:35829
- Identifier
- https://doi.10.1093/icesjms/fsn064
- Description
- The Emperor red snapper, Lutjanus sebae, known as “Bourzwa” in the Seychelles, is distributed throughout the Indo-West Pacific from the southern Red Sea and East Africa to New Caledonia, north to Japan and south to Australia. It occurs near coral or rocky reefs and also over adjacent sand flats and gravel patches between 5 and 180 m deep (Allen, 1985; Anderson, 1986). Juveniles are frequently commensal with sea urchins (Kuiter and Tonozuka, 2001), and are found in nearshore, turbid waters (Williams and Russ, 1992), mangrove areas (Allen, 1985), and around coastal and offshore reefs (Williams and Russ, 1992). Larger L. sebae are generally found deeper, although they are also known to move into shallower water during winter (McPherson et al., 1988; Williams and Russ, 1992). Prey items include fish, crabs, other benthic crustaceans, and cephalopods. Lutjanus sebae is a large, long-lived species, attaining a maximum size of 116 cm fork length (McPherson and Squire, 1992) and maximum age of 34 years (Newman and Dunk, 2002). Despite an absence of data on its population structure, mixing, and identity, the population on the Seychelles Bank has been considered to be a unit stock for assessment purposes because of its remote location (e.g. Lablache and Carrara, 1988; Mees, 1992).
- Format
- 10 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- ICES Journal of Marine Science
- Relation
- Grandcourt, E.M., Hecht, T., Booth, A.J. and Robinson, J., 2008. Retrospective stock assessment of the Emperor red snapper (Lutjanus sebae) on the Seychelles Bank between 1977 and 2006. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 65(6), pp.889-898
- Relation
- ICES Journal of Marine Science volume 65 number 6 889 898 2008 1054-3139
- Rights
- ICES Journal of Marine Science
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Oxford Academic Journals Open Access Policy Statement (https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access)
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