Table 3. Numbers of exploited and non-exploited fish species for each trait.
| Category | Trait | Non-exploited | Exploited | Test | Proportion of species |
| Size | Maximum size | 17.0 (21.3) | 62.3 (46.0) | No overlap* | E > NE |
| Depth | Very shallow | 234 | 37 | 40.38* | E < NE |
| Shallow | 259 | 44 | 40.58* | E < NE | |
| Mid | 202 | 118 | 3.10 | E = NE | |
| Deep | 207 | 152 | 12.20* | E > NE | |
| Very deep | 250 | 209 | 26.02* | E > NE | |
| Diet | Diurnal planktivores | 66 | 24 | 1.43 | E = NE |
| Excavators | 1 | 3 | 3.24 | E = NE | |
| Macroalgal browsers | 1 | 8 | 12.78* | E > NE | |
| Macro carnivores | 50 | 124 | 101.57* | E > NE | |
| Mobile benthic invertivores | 749 | 139 | 86.55* | E < NE | |
| Nocturnal planktivores | 29 | 0 | 13.98* | E < NE | |
| General omnivores | 74 | 87 | 29.60* | E > NE | |
| Strict piscivores | 15 | 60 | 70.92* | E > NE | |
| Sand invertivores | 65 | 73 | 23.12* | E > NE | |
| Scraper herbivores | 22 | 18 | 2.67 | E = NE | |
| Coral/colonial sessile invertivores | 44 | 16 | 0.97 | E = NE | |
| Spongivores | 3 | 5 | 3.20 | E = NE | |
| Territorial herbivores | 24 | 1 | 9.29* | E < NE | |
| Turf grazers | 9 | 2 | 1.05 | E = NE |
Comparison of the numbers of exploited (E) and non-exploited (NE) species for each selected trait. The χ2 test-of-independence was used for all tests but that of size, which used the overlap of the 95% confidence intervals. The size of the exploited and non-exploited species groups was 560 and 1152 respectively. For size, values indicate mean (± s.d.).
*
significant test (α = 0.05). See Halpern and Floeter [25] supplementary online material for further details on traits.