Editing Grouper (section)

== Modern use ==
[[File:Gulai kerapu.JPG|thumb|right|''Gulai kerapu'', a grouper-based [[Padang food]]]]

Many groupers are important food fish; some are now [[fish farming|farmed]]. Unlike most other fish species, which are chilled or frozen, groupers are usually sold alive in markets.<ref>{{cite web |title=Most consumers prefer to purchase live groupers in fish markets |url=http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/Groupers |access-date=2011-04-29}}</ref> Many species are popular [[game fish]] for [[big-game fishing|sea-angling]]. Some species are small enough to be kept in [[aquarium|aquaria]], though even the small species are inclined to grow rapidly. {{Citation needed|date=May 2014}}

Groupers are commonly reported as a source of [[ciguatera]] fish poisoning.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sadovy de Mitcheson |first1=Yvonne |last2=Craig |first2=Matthew T |last3=Bertoncini |first3=Athila A |last4=Carpenter |first4=Kent E |last5=Cheung |first5=William W L |last6=Choat |first6=John H |last7=Cornish |first7=Andrew S |last8=Fennessy |first8=Sean T |last9=Ferreira |first9=Beatrice P |last10=Heemstra |first10=Philip C |last11=Liu |first11=Min |last12=Myers |first12=Robert F |last13=Pollard |first13=David A |last14=Rhodes |first14=Kevin L |last15=Rocha |first15=Luiz A |last16=Russell |first16=Barry C |last17=Samoilys |first17=Melita A |last18=Sanciangco |first18=Jonnell |title=Fishing groupers towards extinction: a global assessment of threats and extinction risks in a billion dollar fishery: Fishing groupers to extinction |journal=Fish and Fisheries |date=June 2013 |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=119–136 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-2979.2011.00455.x |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236649827 |access-date=13 February 2023}}</ref> [[DNA barcoding]] of grouper species might help control Ciguatera fish poisoning since fish are easily identified, even from meal remnants, with molecular tools.<ref>Schoelinck, C., Hinsinger, D. D., Dettaï, A., Cruaud, C. & Justine, J.-L. 2014: A phylogenetic re-analysis of groupers with applications for ciguatera fish poisoning. PLoS ONE, 9, e98198. {{doi|10.1371/journal.pone.0098198}}</ref>