SEAMAP-Caribbean: Maturity Stage of Red Hind at ABT Walter Ingram, SEFSC Pascagoula Aida Rosario, Retired PRDNER Graciela García Moliner, CFMC
Legend to Charts On the effort charts, small yellow circles indicate where specimens were collected. Charts are shown for each species within each sampling area (i.e. off western PR and off eastern PR). Maturity charts show species-specific maturity of female specimens by the location collected ( ; ). – large opaque red circles represent ripe individuals – small semitransparent green circles represent those individuals undergoing gonadal development – small semitransparent white circles represent those individuals in the spent maturity category
Sampling effort from southwest PR from SEAMAP-C with seasonal closed areas
Red Hind, Epinephelus guttatus Western Puerto Rico red=ripe females white=spent females green=developing
Coney, Cephalopholis fulva Western Puerto Rico red=ripe females white=spent females green=developing
Graysby, Cephalopholis cruentata Western Puerto Rico red=ripe females white=spent females green=developing
Princess parrotfish, Scarus taeniopterus Western Puerto Rico
Mutton snapper, Lutjanus analis Western Puerto Rico
Lane snapper, Lutjanus synagris Western Puerto Rico
Silk snapper, Lutjanus vivanus Western Puerto Rico
Vermilion Snapper, Rhomboplites aurorubens Western Puerto Rico
Yellowtail Snapper, Ocyurus chrysurus Western Puerto Rico
Blackfin snapper, Lutjanus buccanella Western Puerto Rico
Schoolmaster snapper, Lutjanus apodus Western Puerto Rico
Tomtate, Haemulon aurolineatum Western Puerto Rico
White grunt, Haemulon plumierii Western Puerto Rico
Banded butterflyfish, Chaetodon striatus Western Puerto Rico
Foureye butterflyfish, Chaetodon capistratus Western Puerto Rico
Blue runner, Caranx crysos Western Puerto Rico
Pluma porgy, Calamus pennatula Western Puerto Rico
Queen triggerfish, Balistes vetula Western Puerto Rico
Ocean surgeonfish, Acanthus bahianus Western Puerto Rico
Sand tilefish, Malacanthus plumieri Western Puerto Rico
Longspine squirrelfish, Holocentrus rufus Western Puerto Rico
Squirrelfish, Holocentrus adscensionis Western Puerto Rico
Bonefish, Albula vulpes Western Puerto Rico