Stenotomus chrysops, Scup : fisheries, gamefish, aquarium

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Stenotomus chrysops (Linnaeus, 1766)

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> 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 / rango de profundidad / distribution range Ecología

marino demersal; oceanodromo (Ref. 51243); rango de profundidad 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.

Length at first maturity / Tamaño / Peso / Age

Madurez: Lm 15.5  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 46.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 7251); common length : 25.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 9988); peso máximo publicado: 2.1 kg (Ref. 40637)

Biología     Glosario (por ej. 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)

Life cycle and mating behavior Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva

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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 2025-1)

  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)





Human uses

Pesquerías: comercial; pesca deportiva: si; Acuario: Acuarios públicos
FAO - pesquerías: landings; Publication: search | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Referencia 123201): 9.4 - 24.6, mean 23.5 °C (based on 106 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Referencia 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).
Nivel trófico (Referencia 69278):  3.8   ±0.1 se; based on diet studies.
Resiliencia (Referencia 120179):  Medio, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo de 1.4-4.4 años (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);