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Biology and Management of Reef Fishes

Saturday February 5, 2000

  Waterfront Room
0820 

Introductory Remarks.
George Sedberry, SCDNR

Session I: MARMAP Program Review
Moderator: Jack McGovern, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
0840 MARMAP Studies of Reef Fishes off the Southeastern United States 1983-2000.
John C. McGovern, George R. Sedberry and Daniel J. Machowski, South Carolina DNR
0900 A Summary of MARMAP's Reef Fish Tagging Activities off the Southeastern United States.
H. Scott Meister and John C. McGovern, South Carolina DNR
0920 Age, Growth and Reproductive Biology of the Black Sea Bass, Centropristis striata, from the Southeastern United States.
John C. McGovern, Mark R. Collins, H. Scott Meister and Oleg Pashuk, South Carolina DNR
0940 Age, Growth, and Reproduction of Scamp, Mycteroperca phenax, in the Southwestern North Atlantic, 1979-1996.
Patrick J. Harris, David M. Wyanski, D. Byron White and Jennifer L. Moore, South Carolina DNR
1000 Break
Session II: Reef Fish Life History Studies
Moderator: David Wyanski, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
1020 Life History of Red Grouper (Epinephelus morio) off the North and South Carolina Coast
Julian Burgos, University of Charleston; Patrick J. Harris, George R. Sedberry and David M. Wyanski, South Carolina DNR
1040 Life History of the Gray Triggerfish from the Southeastern United States.
Jennifer L. Moore, University of Charleston
1100 Red Snapper Reproduction Revisited: Spawning and Fecundity in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, 1998-1999.
L. A. Collins, G.R. Fitzhugh and R.J. Allman, NMFS Panama City Laboratory
1120 Reproductive Biology and Ecology of Red Porgy, Pagrus pagrus, in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico.
Doug DeVries, NMFS Panama City Laboratory
1140 Changes in Life History Patterns of Vermilion Snapper and Red Porgy in the Gulf of Mexico.
Peter B. Hood, GMFMC and Andrea Johnson, North Carolina State University
1200 Lunch
Moderator: Sandy Padgett, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
1320 Age and Growth of Yellowtail Snapper, Ocyurus chrysurus, Collected from the Southeastern United States.
Eden Garcia and Roger A. Rulifson, East Carolina University
1340 Larval Biology and Transport Scenarios for Lutjanids and Haemulids of Southwest Cuba and Southeast Florida.
K. Lindeman, University of Miami; R. Claro, Instituto de Oceanologia; T. Lee, University of Miami; D. Wilson, NOAA Miami Laboratory; and J. Ault, University of Miami
1400 Ingress of Postlarval Snappers (principally Lutjanus griseus) into the Newport River Estuary, North Carolina.
Mimi W. Tzeng, University of North Carolina at Wilmington; Jonathan A. Hare and Allyn B. Powell; NOAA Beaufort Laboratory; and David G. Lindquist, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Session III: Status of Reef Fish Stocks
Moderator: Sandy Padgett, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
1420 Good and Bad Years in the Gulf: Tracking Age-Structure for Gag Grouper and Red Snapper
Gary R. Fitzhugh, William A. Fable, and Linda A. Lombardi, NMFS Panama City Labortory; and Allyn G. Johnson, Panama City
1440 The Effects of Shelf-Edge Fishing on the Demographics of the Gag, Mycteroperca microlepis, Population of the Southeastern United States.
Christopher C. Koenig, Felicia C. Coleman, Institute for Fishery Ecology (FSU/NMFS) Robert W. Chapman, Mark R. Collins, Patrick Harris, John McGovern, George R. Sedberry and David M. Allyn, South Carolina DNR, and Allyn G. Johnson, NMFS Panama City Laboratory
1500 Break
Session IV: Reef Fish Communities, Distribution and Habitat
Moderator: Doug Weaver, Florida Caribbean Science Center USGS
1520 A Preliminary Study of Reef Fish at Navassa Island.
Mark Grace, NMFS Pascagoula Laboratory
1540 Distribution, Abundance and Habitat Utilization of Adult and Juvenile Jewfish, Epinephelus itajara, in Southwest Florida, USA.
Anne-Marie Eklund, NMFS Southeast Fisheries Science Center; Christopher C. Koenig, and Felicia C. Coleman, NOAA/FSU Institute for Fishery Resource Ecology, Florida State University
1600 Fish Populations and Habitat Recovery in the Oculina Research Reserve (1995 to 1999) off Ft. Pierce, FL.
Christopher C. Koenig, Felicia C. Coleman, IFRE (FSU-NMFS); Christopher T. Gledhill, Mark Grace, NMFS Pascagoula Laboratory; Churchill B. Grimes, NMFS Tiburon Laboratory; Kathryn M. Scanlon, USGS Woods Hole, and Sandra Brooke, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution
1620 Spatial Subsidies in the Twilight Zone: Food Web Structure of Outer Continental Shelf Reef Fishes.
Douglas C. Weaver and K.J. Sulak, Florida Caribbean Science Center, USGS
1640 The Distribution of Enneanectes (Blennioidei: Tripterygiidae) on Multiple Spatial Scales.
Lisa K. Haney, Universtiy of Charleston
 

Biology and Management of Reef Fishes

Saturday February 6, 2000

Waterfront Room

Session IV: Reef Fish Communities, Distribution and Habitat (continued)
Moderator: Joel Carlin, University of Florida
0800 Attraction of Age-0 Red Snapper, Lutjanus campechanus, to Areas of Reduced Bycatch Mortality.
Stephen T. Szedlmayer, Auburn University
0820 Fish Assemblages on High Latitude Coral Reefs: A work in Progress.
David Gilliam, Brian D. Ettinger, Richard E. Spieler, and Lance K.B. Jordan, Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center
Session V: Reef Fish Population Structure
Moderator: Joel Carlin, University of Florida
0840  Stock Structure of Red Snapper in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Is their Management as a Single Unit Stock Justified Based on Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Genetic Variation, Otolith Microchemistry, and Growth Rates?
William F. Patterson III, Louisiana State University; James H. Cowan Jr., University of South Alabama; John R. Gold, Texas A&M University; and Charles A. Wilson, Louisiana State University
0900 Population Genetic Partitions and Phylogeography of Atlantic Reef Zones: Rypticus saponaceous and Epinephelus adscensionis.
Joel L. Carlin and Brian W. Bowen, University of Florida
0920 Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Variation and Ecological Distribution of Six Color Morphologies of the Serranid Fish Hypoplectrus.
William P. Christenson, University of Charleston
0940 Genetic Studies of White Grunt, Haemulon plumieri, Indicate Restricted Gene Flow and Deep Phylogeographic Divergence Between Caribbean, Trinidadian and Atlantic Coast Populations.
Robert W. Chapman and George Sedberry, South Carolina DNR
1000 Break
Session VI: Reef Fish Management Issues
Moderator: Joel Carlin, University of Florida
1020 Fishery-Independent and Fishery-Dependent data: Which Should be Used to Manage the Resource?
Patrick Harris, South Carolina DNR
1040 Do Stock Assessments Reflect Reality?
Fred C. Rohde, North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries
1100 Socio-Demographic Assessment of Commercial Reef Fishermen in the South Atlantic.
Kim Iverson, SAFMC; and Ray Rhodes, South Carolina DNR
1120 Manmade Reefs as a Model in Marine Reserve Research.
Mel Bell, South Carolina DNR
1140 The Role of Public Aquaria in the Conservation of Fish Species: Examples from the South Carolina Aquarium.
Whit McMillan, South Carolina Aquarium
1200 General discussion and closing remarks