moore_rb
Stay Thirsty My Friends
catching a female fish full of eggs during spawning season is way better than catching and killing a male... female groupers can out-number the males in the population by as high as 100:1 ratio.Mine puked up five or so little fish after I caught her. She was full of eggs so I felt kind of bad. She was delicious though.
A successful spawning season depends way more on the males than it does the females- Each female can potentially release over a million eggs each year, and will spawn multiple times between late March and mid July...
so, don't feel too bad- that fish probably already spawned at least once this year, and maybe twice.