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Common names: Goldband snapper, Goldband snapper, Goldbanded jobfish
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
Abundance: common (usually seen) | Ref: Kailola, P.J., M.J. Williams, P.C. Stewart, R.E. Reichelt, A. McNee and C. Grieve, 1993
Importance: commercial | Ref: Kailola, P.J., M.J. Williams, P.C. Stewart, R.E. Reichelt, A. McNee and C. Grieve, 1993
Aquaculture: never/rarely | Ref: Kailola, P.J., M.J. Williams, P.C. Stewart, R.E. Reichelt, A. McNee and C. Grieve, 1993
Regulations: restricted | Ref: Kailola, P.J., M.J. Williams, P.C. Stewart, R.E. Reichelt, A. McNee and C. Grieve, 1993
Uses: no uses
Comments: In Australian waters, gold band snapper are present between Cape Pasley in Western Australia and Moruya in southern New South Wales (Ref. 6390). Commercial fishery: Gold band snapper are caught by demersal otter trawling and some semi-pelagic otter trawling on the North West Shelf, Timor Sea and Arafura Sea and by droplines and wire-meshed traps in the 'Timor Box', an area covering approximately 68,000 square km northwest of Darwin where finfish trawling is prohibited. The dropline and trap boats work at the northern edge of the Timor Box, although they are extending their range. Gold band snapper made up part of the catch of foreign trawlers (Taiwanese, Thai, Chinese) operating in Australian waters since the 1930s (Ref. 27275). They are generally taken in water from around 100 m to the edge of the continental shelf. The greatest catches are made during early winter (April-June). Trawled catches up to 490 t per year have been taken from the Timor Sea (Ref. 27275), comprising by weight 91% gold band snapper and 9% sharptoothed snapper (P. typus). In comparison, the ratio in a 1990 trawl survey off Northern Territory was 83% and 17% respectively. The highest catch rates by foreign trawl fleets were achieved in the Timor Sea (50-110 kg per hour) and the largest catches were taken between January and June (Ref. 27275). Trapping on a regular basis commenced in the Timor Box in 1988, after an 18-month trial period over 1982-83. One vessel trapped for tropical snapper in 1988 and was joined by 5 more vessels in 1989. In 1992, goldband snapper catches equalled 85% of the Pristipomoides species catch in the fishery (Ref. 28115). Several trap designs have been used, the most successful being single entrance round traps and arrow traps and Western Australian 'D' or square traps. The traps are baited with oily fish, mostly pilchards (Sardinops neopilchardus). God band snapper (28-66 cm fork length) and sharptoothed snapper (30-60 cm fork length) dominate the catch (58%) from deep-water trapping. However, this percentage has decreased as operators also targeted red emperor (Lutjanus sebae). Droplining in the Timor Sea and the Arafura Sea by Japanese vessels from 1975 to 1981 caught large quantities of tropical snappers - 54% of the catch over surveys conducted in October to December, 1980 (Ref. 28110). The vessels fished in depths of 70-140 m. Droplining by Australian vessels commenced in the Timor Sea in 1987 and by 1991, 3 boats were operating full-time. Highest catch rates are made in the early evening, and 80% of the total dropline catch is made up of these 2 snappers. The hooks are baited with squid, pilchards or cuttlefish (Sepia species). Handlining for gold band snapper is being carried out on a small scale off northeastern Queensland, operating mainly out of Cairns. Fishing is conducted in depths from 80 m to 150 m on the continental shelf slope. Tropical snapper are sold fresh, chilled or frozen, either as whole fish, gilled and gutted fish, or fillets. The Darwin market for these fish is small, so most tropical snapper are air-freighted to the bigger markets of Brisbane and Sydney. Recreational fishery: There is no recreational fishery for gold band snapper in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. However, off eastern Queensland, this species together with sharptoothed snapper, rosy jobfish and other tropical snappers such as P. argyrogrammicus and P. sieboldii are caught incidentally as part of the general reef fish fishery for 'redfish' from boats fishing in the outer reef and sloped in waters deeper than 50 m. Resource status: The size of the resource in the Northern Territory is being investigated. As well as fishing by domestic fishing fleets, the entire northern Australian stock is also being fished by foreign trawlers operating just outside of Australian waters in the Timor Sea. It is not known whether the trawl and dropline-trap fisheries are harvesting the same stocks. Museum: LPPL JIF66, from North West Cape to Darwin (Ref. 5978).
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Main Ref: Kailola, P.J., M.J. Williams, P.C. Stewart, R.E. Reichelt, A. McNee and C. Grieve, 1993
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Colas à bandes dorées, Panchito de bandas doradas, سمك عامل بِرُقع ذهبية, ... more

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Teleostei (teleosts) > Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Lutjanidae (Snappers) > Etelinae
Etymology: Pristipomoides: Greek, pristis = saw + Greek, poma, -atos = cover, operculum + Greek, oides = similar to (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Day.

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Date 1871 Eschmeyer, pers. comm.

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

Marine; demersal; depth range 40 - 350 m (Ref. 9821), usually 125 - 275 m (Ref. 82366). Tropical; 32°N - 36°S, 33°E - 157°W

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Indo-Pacific: East Africa and Red Sea to Samoa, and southern Japan southward to Australia.

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Maturity: L_m 41.7, range 35 - 50 cm
Max length : 90.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 5484); common length : 70.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 5450); max. reported age: 30 years (Ref. 46116)

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Dorsal spines (total): 10; Dorsal soft rays (total): 11; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 8. Interorbital space flat. Lower jaw slightly protruding. Bases of dorsal and anal fin without scales, their last soft rays extended into shorts filaments. Pectoral fins long, reaching level of anus. Scale rows on back parallel to lateral line. Side of snout and cheek with 2 golden stripes bordered with blue. Top of head with a series of chevron-shaped yellow bands.

Gold band snappers are deepwater fish inhabiting tropical and sub-tropical waters. They are schooling fish and live in areas of hard, rocky and uneven sea floor and steep off islands (Ref. 27354). They feed on fishes, shrimps, crabs, lobsters, stomatopods, squids, gastropods and urochordates. Marketed fresh. An excellent food fish. Maximum depth from Ref. 082366.

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Studies in the South China Sea (Ref. 28116) and Hawaii (Ref. 28117) suggest that this species is a serial spawner (Ref. 28115). Similar studies in Australia suggest that this species is a multiple spawner, perhaps a serial spawner (Ref. 6390).

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Allen, G.R., 1985. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 6. Snappers of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of lutjanid species known to date. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(6):208 p. Rome: FAO. (Ref. 55)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 05 March 2015

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

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Harmless

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Fisheries: commercial

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 12.3 - 23, mean 17 (based on 372 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5005 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01660 (0.01006 - 0.02739), b=2.95 (2.82 - 3.08), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this species & Genus-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.8 ±0.58 se; based on food items.

Resilience (Ref. 120179): Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (K=0.22-0.28; tmax=14; Fec=296,000).

Prior r = 0.67, 95% CL = 0.44 - 1.01, Based on 1 data-limited stock assessment.

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Moderate vulnerability (43 of 100).

Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649): High to very high vulnerability (75 of 100).

Price category (Ref. 80766): Very high.

Pristipomoides multidens (Day, 1871)