Gobius ophiocephalus, Grass goby : fisheries

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Gobius ophiocephalus Pallas, 1814

Grass goby
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Gobiiformes (Gobies) > Gobiidae (Gobies) > Gobiinae
Etymology: Gobius: Latin, gobius = gudgeon (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Pallas.

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

Marine; brackish; demersal; oceanodromous (Ref. 51243); depth range 30 - ? m (Ref. 2058). Subtropical; 47°N - 28°N, 6°W - 42°E

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Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, and Sea of Azov.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 29.9 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 115022); max. reported age: 5 years (Ref. 4696)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Benthic, inshore, brackish water, estuaries and lagoons, on mud and eel-grass meadows. Commercial in the Black Sea and in Sivash (Ref. 2058). Occasionally recorded in freshwater, but there are no documented records of actual occurrence in European freshwaters (Ref. 59043).

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Iteroparous, females produce more than one batch of eggs within the breeding season (Ref. 50965).

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Miller, P.J., 1979. Gobiidae. p. 483-515. In J.C. Hureau and Th. Monod (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and of the Mediterranean (CLOFNAM). UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 1. (Ref. 4345)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 14 March 2014

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Fisheries: commercial
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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 14 - 20.1, mean 17.1 °C (based on 26 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 1.0000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01000 (0.00828 - 0.01208), b=3.01 (2.96 - 3.06), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.2   ±0.3 se; based on diet studies.
Resilience (Ref. 120179):  Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (tm=2-3; Fec>5,000).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (20 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Very high.
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 93.8 [48.6, 200.2] mg/100g; Iron = 0.999 [0.557, 1.853] mg/100g; Protein = 18.7 [16.8, 20.2] %; Omega3 = 0.333 [0.152, 0.574] g/100g; Selenium = 19.4 [9.9, 37.2] μg/100g; VitaminA = 16.8 [5.3, 48.5] μg/100g; Zinc = 1.16 [0.80, 1.70] mg/100g (wet weight);