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| Seyboth,Elisa; Condini,Mario V; Albuquerque,Cristiano Q; Varela Jr,Antônio S; Velasco,Gonzalo; Vieira,João P; Garcia,Alexandre M. |
| The dusky grouper, Mycteroperca marginata, is an important commercial marine fish that is currently considered an endangered species worldwide and listed as overexploited in Brazil. Although its reproductive biology has been studied elsewhere, no information is available for populations in its southernmost distribution limit on the Brazilian coast. The present work investigates age structure, growth and reproduction of individuals inhabiting a pair of rocky jetties, about 4.5 km long each, located in the mouth of Patos Lagoon in the municipality of Rio Grande, in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean. A total of 130 individuals obtained between February 2007 and May 2009 were analyzed, with total length ranging from 260 to 800 mm. The growth coefficient found in... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Endangered species; Epinephelus marginatus; Patos Lagoon; Rocky jetties. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252011000400016 |
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