Gerres longirostris | UAE National Red List of Marine Species: Reef-building corals, cartilaginous fishes and select bony fishes
Taxa
Gerres longirostris | (Lacepède, 1801)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Data deficient
Assessment status abreviation
DD
Assessment rationale/justification
This demersal, inshore species occurs throughout UAE waters. Catch in Abu Dhabi has declined by 87% since 2010, but a stock assessment conducted in 2015 concluded it was underexploited. Considering the catch declines cannot be explained at this time, and these information are conflicting, it is listed as Data Deficient in the UAE. Improvements in fisheries monitoring are needed.
Assessment year
2019
Assessors/contributors/reviewers listed
UAE National Red List Workshop
Affliation of assessor(s)/contributors/reviewers listed on assessment
Government
IGO
Assessor affiliation specific
Government|IGO
Criteria system specifics
IUCN v3.1 + Regional Guidelines v4.0
Criteria system used
IUCN
Criteria Citation
IUCN. 2012. IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1, Second edition. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. iv + 32pp pp. And IUCN. 2012. Guidelines for Application of IUCN Red List Criteria at Regional and National Levels: Version 4.0. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN. iii + 41pp.
Endemic to region
Not_assigned
Endemism Notes
Is an endemic?: Not_assigned
Threats listed in assessment
Overfishing is a potential major threat to this species in the UAE, but this is poorly understood. The large-scale anthropogenic modification of estuarine habitats in the UAE and elsewhere in the Gulf region may impact this species. Corals in the UAE and Arabian Gulf have severely declined due to the increasing frequency of mass bleaching events caused by rising water temperatures, which is a consequence of climate change, as well as pervasive coastal development (Riegl et al. 2018, Burt et al. 2019).
Conservation Measures
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Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Gerres longirostris | Animalia | Chordata | Actinopterygii | Perciformes | Gerreidae | Gerres |