New Rockfish Longevity and Spawning Information Will Help Stock Assessments and Ensure Healthy Populations
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Seafood News] by Christine Baier/ASFC
Some things just get better with age. Like rockfish mothers.
A rockfish might not start spawning until she is 25 years old. As she gets older she produces more, and more robust, young. She continues to produce them over many years, into advanced age – which for some rockfish means 100 or 200 years.
That is the sluggish end of the spectrum, but rockfish in general are slow-growing, late-maturing, long-lived species...
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