Implications of reef fish movement from unreported artificial reef sites in the northern Gulf of Mexico

a b s t r a c t Artificial reefs were deployed in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) by the state of Florida's marine fisheries agency but not reported to the public in an attempt to create no-harvest refuges for exploited fishes. As part of a broader examination of the efficacy of this approach, a tagging study was conducted at a subset (n = 9) of these unreported artificial reefs to examine the likelihood that reef fishes would