Essential Fish Habitat Source Document: Bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix, Life History and Habitat Characteristics

Fahay, Michael P.; Berrien, Peter L.; Johnson, Donna L.; Morse, Wallace W.

doi:10.25923/6r3h-gc97

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Essential Fish Habitat Source Document: Bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix, Life History and Habitat Characteristics

1999
By Fahay, Michael P. ; Berrien, Peter L. ; Johnson, Donna L. ; ...
Series: NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS NE ; 144

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Fahay, Michael P. ; Berrien, Peter L. ; Johnson, Donna L. ; Morse, Wallace W.

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United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Northeast Region ; Northeast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)

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NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; NER (Northeast Region) ; NEFSC (Northeast Fisheries Science Center)

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The bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix (Figure 1), ranges in the western North Atlantic from Nova Scotia and Bermuda to Argentina, but it is rare between southern Florida and northern South America (Robins et al. 1986). They travel in schools of like-sized individuals and undertake seasonal migrations, moving into the Middle Atlantic Bight (MAB) during spring and south or farther offshore during fall. Within the MAB they occur in large bays and estuaries as well as across the entire continental shelf. Juvenile stages have been recorded from all estuaries surveyed within the MAB, but eggs and larvae occur in oceanic waters (Able and Fahay 1998). Bluefish growth rates are fast and they may reach a length of 1.1 m (3.5 ft) and a weight of 12.3 kg (27 lbs) (Bigelow and Schroeder 1953). They may live to age 12. A bimodal size distribution of young-of-the-year (YOY) bluefish during the summer in the New York Bight suggests that there are two spawning events along the east coast. Recent studies suggest that spawning is a single, continuous event, but that young are lost from the middle portion resulting in the appearance of a split season.
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NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS NE ; 144
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