3.4. Effect of protection on escape trajectory
In all management zones, coral trout fled predominantly directly
away from the approaching diver (180°: Fig. 5). While GAMMs were unable to detect a significant difference (Table S6), fish in protected zones of the southern region fled more often at lateral angles compared to those in fished zones, and lateral flight.was more common in no entry zones compared to no-take zones (Table S4, Fig. 5). Lateral flight trajectories were observed regularly for target fish in the no-entry zones of the southern region, as indicated by a platykurtic distribution of escape trajectories (Fig. 5), whereas all other zones had leptokurtic distributions (Table 3, Fig. 5).