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DESCARGA

Procedimientos Sugeridos Durante Intervenciones en El Campo

Nassau Grouper Initiative

OTHER IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Spawning Aggregations - Natural Numbers EP 05 - English Language- Agregaciones de Desove - Spanish Language - Spawning aggregations are massive gatherings of fish for breeding, a behavior shared by many species across the globe in many different habitats. Spawning aggregations support some of the most productive fisheries: from multibillion-dollar industries to subsistence cultures, yet we are only beginning to understand their value for marine ecosystems and food security, and their vulnerability. In the upper Gulf of California, in Mexico, a large marine fish known as Gulf Corvina offers an insight into the importance of this behavior. Thanks to Brad Erisman, Assistant Professor of Fisheries Ecology, University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute.

List compiled at the First Meeting of the WECAFC Spawning Aggregation Working Group, Miami, Florida, November 2013.

• Science and Conservation of Fish Aggregations
  http://www.scrfa.org/
• Spawning Aggregation Monitoring Protocol for the Meso-American Reef and the wider Caribbean
  http://www.reefresilience.org/pdf/Spawning_Aggregation_Monitoring_Protocol_4July2004.pdf
• Massa God Fish CAN done – Fisher Exchange Video Jamaica/Belize 
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-Fr_VN79so
• Case Studies on Fish Spawning Aggregations
  http://www.reefresilience.org/Toolkit_FSA/F8_CaseStudies.html
• At Sea Level, Caribbean fisherfolk and the future of the sea
  http://vimeo.com/16300644
• Film on Fisher exchanges
  A Fisher's Journey on Vimeo
• Reef Resilience Toolkit
  http://www.reefresilience.org/Toolkit_FSA/F1_Intro.html
• Grouper Moon K12 Education site
  http://groupereducation.edublogs.org/
• General Website for Grouper Moon
  http://www.reef.org/groupermoonproject
• Short edit video of the "virtual dive" dive with a scientist at an FSA
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-_A9yHeYIc&feature=colike
• Episode of PBS series Changing Seas featuring Nassau Grouper research in the Caymans
  http://video.wpbt2.org/video/2247780078/
• Baby Grouper Adrift! Website 
  http://www.reef.org/programs/grouper_moon/adrift/
• Groupers Last Stand, 3 minute PSA
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqnkv38iTy8
• Belize Spawning Aggregation Working Group
  http://collaborations.wcs.org/Default.aspx?alias=collaborations.wcs.org/spag&

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• Southeast Fisheries Impacts from COVID-19

• SEDAR. 2022. SEDAR 80 – US Caribbean Queen Triggerfish – Puerto Rico Final Stock Assessment Report. SEDAR, North Charleston, SC. Also available online at: http://sedarweb.org/sedar-80

• García-Moliner, G., Armstrong, R., Cerame-Vivas, M. (Octubre 2018). Essential Fish Hbitats of the Deep: Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands
  *The final revsed version will be published in 2019.
  
  
• • Front Page and Index
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3 part I
  • Chapter 3 part II
  • Fishers Interviews
  • Diver Interview
  • Chapter 3 part III

• Project - Puerto Rico Coral Reef Ecosystem Valuation. https://www.coris.noaa.gov/act ivities/projects/pr_reef_ecosy stem_valuation/

• CITES, Regional cooperation on the management of and trade in the queen conch (Strombus gigas).

• Ehrhardt, Nelson M. PhD and Monica Valle-Esquivel, PhD. 2008. Conch (Strombus gigas) Stock Assessment Manual. For the Caribbean Fishery Management Council
• • Conch Manual
  • Conch Simulator
  • Conch Growth Gompertz
  • Documentation Conch Simulator
  • Conch Manual Growth Mortal Estimation Programs
  • Instructions to Use Growth and Mortality Estimation Programs Caribbean Conch Manual
  • Parameters Conch Simulator

• Erdman, Donald. 1983. Common Names of Fishes in Puerto Rico/Nombres Vulgares de Peces en Puerto Rico, Vol 2 Number 3, CODREMAR

• Jorge R. García-Sais, Roy Armstrong, et al.  June, 2015. Characterization of Deep Reef Benthic Habitats of Queen Snapper in Mona Passage, Puerto Rico. Final Report.

• García-Sais, Jorge R. Ph. D, Stacey M. Williams, Jorge Sabater-Clavell, Rene Esteves, Milton Carlo. August 2014. Mesophotic Benthic Habitats and Associated Reef Communities at Lang Bank, St. Croix, USVI. Final Report.

• García-Sais, Jorge R. Ph. D, Roberto L. Castro-Gomez, Jorge Sabater-Clavell, Rene Esteves, Stacey Williams, Milton Carlo.  March, 2010.  Mesophotic benthic habitats and associated marine communities at Abrir La Sierra, Puerto Rico. Final Report.

• García-Sais, Jorge R. Ph. D, Inventory and Atlas of Corals and Coral Reefs, with Emphasis on Deep-water Coral Reefs from the U.S. Caribbean EEZ

• García-Sais, Jorge Ph. D., Roberto L. Castro, Jorge Sabater Clavell.  March, 2001. Coral Reef Communities from Natural Reserves in Puerto Rico : a quantitative baseline assessment for prospective monitoring programs. Volume 1 : Cordillera de Fajardo, Isla Caja de Muertos, Bosque Seco de Guanica, Bahía de Mayaguez

• García-Sais, Jorge R. Ph. D. Characterization of benthic habitats and associated reef communitie at Bajo de Sico Seamount, Mona Passage, Puerto Rico

• García-Sais, Jorge R. Ph. D.,Jorge Sabater-Clavell, Rene Esteves, Jorge Capella, Milton Carlo Characterization of Benthic Habitats and Associated Mesophotic Coral Reef Communities at El Seco, Southeast Vieques, Puerto Rico

• García-Sais, Jorge R Ph.D., Jorge Sabater-Clavell, Rene Esteves, Milton Carlo, Fishery independent survey of commercially exploited fish and shellfish populations from mesophotic reefs within the Puertorrican EEZ

• García-Sais,Jorge R. Ph. D. , Stacey M. Williams, Rene F. Esteves, Jorge Sabater, Milton A. Carlo, Characterization of mesophotic benthic habitats and associated reef communities at Tourmaline Reef, Puerto Rico

• Gómez Lozano, R., L. Anderson, J.L. Akins, D.S.A. Buddo, G. García-Moliner, F. Gourdin, M. Laurent, C. Lilyestrom, J.A. Morris, Jr., N. Ramnanan, and R. Torres. 2013.Estrategia regional para el control del Pez León invasor en el Gran Caribe. Iniciativa Internacional sobre los Arrecifes Coralinos. 32 pp.

• Jeffrey, C.F.G., P.W. Mueller, M.S. Kendall, K. Buja, K. Edwards, S.D. Hile, and L. Carrubba. 2010. Biogeographic Characterization of Essential Fish Habitats Affected by Human Activities in the Coastal Zone of Puerto Rico. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS NCCOS 115. Silver Spring, MD. 31 pp.

• Kojis, Barbara L. and Norman J. Quinn. February 2011.  Validation of a Spawning Aggregation of Mutton Snapper and Characterization of the Benthic Habitats and Fish in the Mutton Snapper Seasonal Closed Area, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands Report submitted to CFMC

• Matos-Caraballo, Daniel and Juan J. Agar. Marine Fisheries Review 73(1) entire issue is available.  Census of Active Commercial Fishermen in Puerto Rico: 2008

• Michelle T. Scharer-Umpierre,  Michael I. Nemeth-Feliciano, Tim J. Rowell y Richard S. Appeldoorn, Investigaciones de Agregaciones Reproductivas de Meros Mediante Métodos Acústicos Pasivos
  

• Morgan, Lance E.  Shifting gears : addressing the collateral impacts of fishing methods in U. S. waters. 2003, Ratana Chuenpagdee.    PEW Ocean Science Series

• National Fish Habitat Board, 2010. Through a Fish’s Eye: The Status of Fish Habitats in the United States 2010. Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Washington D.C. 68 pp.

• Nemeth, Richard S. April 30th, 2008. Characterization Of Deep Water Reef Communities Within The Marine Conservation District, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

• Pescadores de Puerto Rico - Obligaciones y Beneficios Contributivos - pdf document

• Salas, S.; Chuenpagdee, R.; Charles, A.; Seijo, J.C. (eds). Coastal fisheries of Latin America and the Caribbean., FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper. No. 544. Rome, FAO. 2011. 430p.

• Steven J. Lutz and Robert N. Ginsburg. State of Deep Coral Ecosystems in the Caribbean Region: Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands

• Valdés Pizzini, Manuel and Schärer Umpierre, Michelle. People, Habitats, Species, and Governance: An Assessment of the Social-Ecological System of La Parguera, Puerto Rico