Long-lived life history for onaga Etelis coruscans in the Hawaiian Islands
Allen H. Andrews
A D , Jon Brodziak A , Edward E. DeMartini B and Eric Cruz C
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A University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1000 Pope Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
B Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii, Kaneohe, HI 96822, USA.
C University of Guam, UOG Station, Mangilao, Guam 96923, USA.
D Corresponding author. Email: astrofish226@gmail.com
Marine and Freshwater Research 72(6) 848-859 https://doi.org/10.1071/MF20243
Submitted: 10 August 2020 Accepted: 14 October 2020 Published: 21 December 2020
Abstract
Onaga Etelis coruscans is an important component of the commercial deep-water handline fishery in Hawaii and is one of the more valuable species because of its local popularity. This species is part of a management unit called the Deep 7, a data-poor fishery comprising six snapper and one grouper species for which information about age, growth, longevity and maturity is incomplete. Although some life history information is available for onaga, prior estimates of maximum age (~10–20 years) likely suffered from underestimation of age, whereas two recent studies provided estimates that were similar to the work presented here—a refined age reading protocol revealed age estimates up to 55 years. This maximum age estimate and the age reading protocol used on onaga otoliths were validated using bomb radiocarbon dating. Using an otolith reference image age reading protocol that relied on the validated otolith sections, almost all onaga otoliths covering nearly the full body size range were used to generate valid growth parameters that may be sexually dimorphic. An empirical estimate of age at the length at which 50% of individuals reach maturity (L50) is 11 years, and fish near the minimum retention size in Hawaii (1 lb (~0.45 kg) or ~30-cm fork length) may be just 2–3 years old.
Keywords: age and growth, bomb radiocarbon, carbon-14, deep-water handline fishery, Etelinae, Lutjanidae, otolith.
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