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Stenotomus chrysops (Linnaeus, 1766)

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Teleostei (teleosts) > Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Sparidae (Porgies)
Etymology: Stenotomus: Greek, stenos = narrow + Greek, stoma = mouth (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Linnaeus.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; demersal; oceanodromous (Ref. 51243); depth range 15 - ? m (Ref. 4926). Subtropical; 46°N - 25°N

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Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia in Canada to Florida in USA; rare south of North Carolina, USA.

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Maturity: Lm 15.5  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 46.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 7251); common length : 25.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 9988); max. published weight: 2.1 kg (Ref. 40637)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Occurs usually in schools inshore in summer and offshore in winter. Feeds on amphipods, worms, sand dollars and young squid (Ref. 4926). Utilized fresh, smoked and frozen; eaten pan-fried, broiled and baked (Ref. 9988). Exported to Japan (Ref. 9988)

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Robins, C.R. and G.C. Ray, 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. 354 p. (Ref. 7251)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)

  Near Threatened (NT) ; Date assessed: 26 May 2011

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Reports of ciguatera poisoning (Ref. 30911)





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Fisheries: commercial; gamefish: yes; aquarium: public aquariums
FAO - Fisheries: landings; Publication: search | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 9.4 - 24.6, mean 23.5 °C (based on 106 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.7500   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01738 (0.01058 - 0.02855), b=3.02 (2.88 - 3.16), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.8   ±0.1 se; based on diet studies.
Resilience (Ref. 120179):  Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (K=0.17-0.23; tmax=19).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Moderate to high vulnerability (51 of 100).
Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649):  Moderate vulnerability (40 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Low.
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 78.5 [35.6, 139.6] mg/100g; Iron = 1.03 [0.55, 2.10] mg/100g; Protein = 19.3 [18.2, 20.5] %; Omega3 = 0.332 [0.195, 0.556] g/100g; Selenium = 30.7 [14.6, 62.3] μg/100g; VitaminA = 7.68 [2.00, 29.30] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.578 [0.379, 0.855] mg/100g (wet weight);