Research
Initial research efforts by the PIER team have focused on post-release survivorship and documeting short-term movement patterns using acoustic telemetry. The findings from this work suggest that roosterfish are resilient and that they can, when handled properly, survive the acute effects of capture and release. The work has also revealed that roosterfish have relatively large home ranges with fish routinely moving over 30 kilometers per day.
Additional studies on growth and reproduction are being conducted in conjunction with the laboratory of Dr. Sofia Ortega of CICIMAR in La Paz. Given the importance of the roosterfish resource to recreational fisheries in the Eastern Pacific, we will continue to direct our efforts at better understand the biology of this coastal species.
