Many strategies have evolved among fishes to maximise spawning success. One of the most striking of these is aggregation spawning, in which individuals group together, often at predictable times and locations in order to reproduce (cf. a school, which refers to a group of non-spawning fish)....
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
This report describes a collaborative project focused on Snapper (Chrysophrys auratus) carried out between 2018 and 2021 by researchers from the Western Australian Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD), Flinders University, University of Adelaide, University of Western...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
In this FRDC project, a team from Integrated Marine Observing System Animal Tracking Facility (IMOS ATF), in coordination with state and federal agencies and the Fisheries and Aquaculture Research Providers Network (RPN) met. They systematically reconfigured the IMOS ATF national network to...
The need to optimise spawning success and survival of offspring by fishes has resulted in the evolution of a vast array of reproductive strategies, such as spawning aggregations. A spawning aggregation is defined by Domeier and Colin (1997) as, “a group of con-specific fish gathered for the...