Pattern of movements within a home reef in the Chesterfield Islands (Coral Sea) by the endangered Giant Grouper, Epinephelus lanceolatus

Eric Clua 1, 2 Claude Chauvet 3 Johann Mourier 1, 2 Jonathan Mark Werry 4, 5, 6 John E. Randall 7
1 LabEX CORAIL - Laboratoire d'Excellence CORAIL
2 CRIOBE - Centre de recherches insulaires et observatoire de l'environnement
3 UNiversity of New Caledonia
4 Australian Rivers Institute
5 Griffith Centre for Coastal Management
6 Ocean and Coast Research
7 Bishop Museum
Abstract : This study determined the movements of a Giant Grouper, Epinephelus lanceolatus, in which an acoustic tag was surgically implanted and monitored by an array of six VR2W acoustic receiver units from August 2010 to January 2013 in the remote, uninhabited Chesterfield Islands, Coral Sea (800 km West of New Caledonia). Our data revealed a home reef area (residency rate of 44.9%) with an increased activity revealed by movements at dawn and dusk toward and between two adjacent reef passages, probably for foraging. The fish was absent from its resident reef between October and December 2010 and 2012, corresponding to the time known for spawning aggregations of this species in New Caledonia. A skipped spawning seems to have occurred in 2011. We hope these data will be complemented in the future by locating the spawning site or sites and thus provide adequate conservation measures. The Coral Sea links two World Heritage Sites, the Australian Great Barrier Reefs and the New Caledonian coral reefs. It would be fitting to create a Marine Protected Area for the Chesterfield Islands between these two major conservation areas of the sea.
Keywords : Coral reefs apex predator serranidae site fidelity acoustic telemetry spawning aggregations
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Aquatic Living Resources, EDP Sciences, 2015, 28 (1), 〈10.1051/alr/2015006〉
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Eric Clua, Claude Chauvet, Johann Mourier, Jonathan Mark Werry, John E. Randall. Pattern of movements within a home reef in the Chesterfield Islands (Coral Sea) by the endangered Giant Grouper, Epinephelus lanceolatus. Aquatic Living Resources, EDP Sciences, 2015, 28 (1), 〈10.1051/alr/2015006〉. 〈hal-01238809〉

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