Editing Sciaenidae (section)

==Fisheries==
[[File:Corvina (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 11 July 1865).jpg|alt=An 1865 watercolor painting of Brazilian croaker by Jacques Burkhardt.|left|thumb|An 1865 watercolor painting of Brazilian croaker by [[Jacques Burkhardt]].]]
They are excellent food and sport fish, and are commonly caught by surf and pier fishers. Some are important commercial fishery species, notably [[small yellow croaker]] with reported landings of 218,000–407,000 tonnes in 2000–2009; according to [[FAO]] fishery statistics, it was the 25th most important fishery species worldwide.<ref name=FAO/> However, a large proportion of the catch is not reported at species level; in the FAO fishery statistics, the category "Croakers, drums, not elsewhere included", is the largest one within sciaenids, with annual landings of 431,000–780,000 tonnes in 2000–2009, most of which were reported from the western Indian Ocean (FAO fishing area 51) and northwest Pacific (FAO fishing area 61).<ref name=FAO>{{Cite book
| publisher = [[FAO]]
| last = FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
| title = Yearbook of fishery and aquaculture statistics 2009. Capture production
| location = Rome
| date = 2011
| url = ftp://ftp.fao.org/FI/CDrom/CD_yearbook_2009/root/capture/yearbook_capture.pdf
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170519070831/ftp://ftp.fao.org/FI/CDrom/CD_yearbook_2009/root/capture/yearbook_capture.pdf
| url-status = dead
| archive-date = 2017-05-19
}}</ref>
The future of croakers, like many other fish species in the United States and around the world is uncertain because overfishing continues to be a major threat. The population has decreased significantly which will affect their ability reproduce. In United States Croakers are managed by the federal and state governments to ensure that they're harvested sustainably.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://husfarm.com/product/atlantic-croaker|title=Global atlantic croaker production|work=husfarm.com}}</ref>