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OCR: SERRANIDAE Groupers Groupers are among the Caribbean's larger fishes, and they include important commercial and recreational species. Despite over- fishing, which has diminished their numbers significantly, groupers are nevertheless ever- present on Caribbean reefs. Giant members of several genera are rare due constant human predation Groupers are especially vulnerable spearfishing. They live at all depths of reef waters and eat wide variety 0f fishes and inverte- brates. While larger species tend t0 be solitary except for seasonal variet tishes