Sarah Frias-Torres, Ph.D

Ocean Minute

Red lion FIsh (2012-05-21) 

FORT PIERCE, FL (wqcs) - Florida's marine backyard hides a gentle giant: the goliath grouper. They
are the largest grouper fish in the Atlantic ocean, up to 8 feet long and half
a ton in weight. Goliath groupers might live up to 70 years, like us.
After 8 years in the mangrove nursery, they move to the reef. Every
summer, goliath groupers aggregate at a few sites along the reef, singing
their love songs with a deep Barry White voice. Spawning under the moonlit
nights. Goliath groupers are the golden retrievers of the ocean, curious and