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Fish/Fisheries Conservation Lab @ USCA
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We investigate questions about the biology and ecology of fisheries species thru collaborative research with fishing communities
May 18, 2025 at 3:38 AM
May 18, 2025 at 3:36 AM
May 18, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Queen triggerfish get old too!!! Max documented age so far was 40 y

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
May 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
And Caribbean parrotfish species?!?
Stoplight parrotfish and queen parrotfish max ages were over 20 y

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May 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Next - we documented that QUEEN SNAPPER can live to be over 50 years old!!!! And blackfin snapper live up to 45 years…..

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May 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
🧪FishCon Lab alumna Meredith Smylie at her MS graduation party (2014). Meredith studied longnose gar biology and ecology in SC coastal riverine systems and published three papers from her thesis work 💕
#gar
#fishes
January 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Congrats to our collaborating fishers and scientists!
🧪 #fisheries #queenconch

Preliminary findings from these efforts so far is a maximum age of over 50 years old
January 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Latest pub: “Based on our overall findings related to life history, queen parrotfish and stoplight parrotfish in the U.S. Caribbean did not appear to exhibit signs of overexploitation….”
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
January 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM