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The green jobfish (Aprion virescens), also known as the gray jobfish, gray snapper, [3] or slender snapper, and in Hawaiian as uku, [3] is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae. It is found in the Indo-Pacific region.
Ta'ape: common bluestripe snapper; To'au: blacktail snapper; ʻŪʻū: squirrelfish (menpachi) Uhu: mature parrotfish; ʻŪkīkiki: Brigham's snapper (gindai) Uku: gray jobfish/snapper; Ula: Hawaiian spiny lobster; Ula pāpapa: slipper lobster; ʻUlaʻula koaʻe: Longtail snapper (onaga) Ulua: mature thicklip trevally; Ulua kihikihi: threadfin jack
The mangrove snapper or gray snapper (Lutjanus griseus) is a species of snapper native to the western Atlantic Ocean from Massachusetts to Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico, Bermuda, and the Caribbean Sea. The species can be found in a wide variety of habitats, including brackish and fresh waters. It is commercially important and is sought as a game fish.
The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands include many atolls, and reefs. Due to Hawaii's isolation 30% of the fish are endemic (unique to the island chain). [1] The Hawaiian Islands comprise 137 islands and atolls, with a land area of 6,423.4 square miles (16,636.5 km 2). [2]
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Extensive deeper "shelves" extend many miles from the island's shallow reef, especially to the southeast, and commercial fishing takes place over these shelves, [11] which produce much of Hawaii's catch of green jobfish, known locally as gray snapper or uku. [10]
Honolulu Fish Auction has been operating since 1952, selling between 70,000 and 90,000 pounds of fish per day, operating six days per week. It is the sole large-scale auction for tuna west of Tokyo, Japan, and its operations are based on the same system used at the former Tsukiji Market Auction in Tokyo. [ 1 ]
It is owned by Gray Media alongside KHNL and CBS affiliate KGMB (channel 5). The stations share studios on Waiakamilo Road in Honolulu's Kapālama neighborhood; KFVE's transmitter is located near Kalaoa, Hawaii. KFVE serves a 7,954-square-mile (20,601 km 2) area, and covers an estimated population of 71,400.