Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10125/2912
Habitat and Life History of Juvenile Hawaiian Pink Snapper, Pristipomoides filamentosus
File | Size | Format | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
v50n4-371-381.pdf | 5.09 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
Item Summary
Title: | Habitat and Life History of Juvenile Hawaiian Pink Snapper, Pristipomoides filamentosus |
Authors: | Moffitt, Robert B. Parrish, Frank A. |
Date Issued: | Oct 1996 |
Publisher: | University of Hawaii Press |
Citation: | Moffitt RB, Parrish FA. 1996. Habitat and life history of juvenile Hawaiian pink snapper, Pristipomoides filamentosus. Pac Sci 50(4): 371-381. |
Abstract: | Eteline snappers are an important component of commercial
demersal fisheries in the central and western Pacific, but there is a substantial gap in the knowledge of their life histories, specifically the larval and juvenile stages. Juvenile pink snapper, Pristipomoides filamentosus (Valenciennes), ranging in size from 7 to 25 cm fork length, inhabit a nearly featureless plain offshore of Kane'ohe Bay, O'ahu, at depths of 65-100 m. Bottom samples and underwater video footage showed the bottom to be uniformly composed of fine, silty sand with little relief. Conductivity-temperature-depth data indicate that an internal tide brings cold water over the bottom on a tidal basis. Telemetric studies show that juveniles undergo small-scale crepuscular migrations from deeper daytime locations to shallower nighttime locations but move relatively little during day and night periods. Analysis of length frequency distributions obtained over a 17-month period resulted in an estimate of the von Bertalanffy growth constant (K) of 0.21 yr-l. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/2912 |
ISSN: | 0030-8870 |
Appears in Collections: |
Pacific Science Volume 50, Number 4, 1996 |
Please email libraryada-l@lists.hawaii.edu if you need this content in ADA-compliant format.
Items in ScholarSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.