Biology of the Southern Kingfish in the South Atlantic Bight
作者:
JosephW. Smith,
CharlesA. Wenner,
期刊:
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
(Taylor Available online 1985)
卷期:
Volume 114,
issue 3
页码: 356-366
ISSN:0002-8487
年代: 1985
DOI:10.1577/1548-8659(1985)114<356:BOTSKI>2.0.CO;2
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Southern kingfish Menticirrhus americanus were caught from Cape Fear, North Carolina, to Cape Canaveral, Florida, during seasonal stratified random trawl surveys. Maximum frequency of occurrence and abundance occurred in this area during summer and fall surveys. Analysis of marginal increments on scales showed annulus formation occurred from winter through early spring. Back-calculated mean total lengths at age produced von Bertalanffy growth equations of Lt= 292{1 - exp[-0.6369(t - 0.0045)]} for males and Lt= 477{1 - exp[-0.2742(t + 0.2813)]} for females, where Lt= total length (mm) at age t (years). Spawning takes place from April through August in the South Atlantic Bight, most intensively from April through early June. Southern kingfish mature at age 1. In South Carolina, 96% of the kingfish landed as by-catch from the penaeid shrimp fishery were southern kingfish, which averaged 23 cm total length (range, 18–36 cm); 81% of these were age 1 and 79% were females. Research catches indicated annual mortality rates of 67–79%, whereas commercial catches implied a rate of about 87%; the higher rate is related to culling operations at sea.
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