It's official, I am obsessed with goliath groupers. I've caught a few normal sized grouper down in Florida and even those ...
Goliath groupers are generally nonviolent, though divers are instructed to treat the giant fish with caution. That's because ...
As the calendars turned to May this week, a fleet of boats with expectant anglers will descend with renewed fervor on the ...
Every June thousands of camouflage groupers congregate in that channel, in an area the size of two to three football fields, to spawn the next generation. Violent tidal currents funnel through ...
A grouper caught by spear-fishing. Perhaps most significantly, the legislation prohibited all fishing and selling of Nassau groupers during the fish’s 5-month spawning season. “Refraining from ...
These are Atlantic goliath groupers. They gather on shipwrecks and reefs to eat and socialize. At up to 800 pounds and nine feet long, they sport jutting jaws and giant palm fronds for fins and ...
The Nassau grouper used to be one of the most common groupers in the United States, but overfishing contributed to a 60% population decline in recent years. In 2016 the National Oceanic Atmospheric ...
“Nassau groupers can’t survive if we don’t protect their habitat, and I’m thrilled their ocean home is getting help,” said Catherine Kilduff, an attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity.
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Over a few weeks on location we filmed the groupers gathering and the males fighting and jostling for position next to a female full of eggs, but nature can be unpredictable and this year - and ...
With the reefs suffocating under shaggy layers of algae, scientists are investigating the role that the loss of top predatory fish such as sharks, groupers and jacks have played in the reef's slow ...
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