Camouflague anyone? The spires, spines and cirri on this little sargassumfish are hard to spot out of the water but he’s beautifully adapted to living within floating mats of Sargassum macroalgae out in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Sargasso Sea off of Florida’s coastline. Its not terribly common to spot these beauties in [...]
Spotted seatrout are a prized gamefish in the Indian River Lagoon system, even supporting several tournaments during the year. But they, like so many others, start out life at a terribly small size.
Its hard to say with real certainty which species of filefish this 2″ juvenile represents. There are two species - Stephanolepsis hispidus, the planehead filefish and Monacanthus ciliatus, the fringed filefish - that inhabit the Indian River Lagoon system and make use of seagrass beds as nursery grounds. Its not common to pull adults from seine nets, [...]
Kids love to tell fish tales. Throughout my time as an instructor I’ve heard the following: “a sea snake just jumped up and bit me!”, “a manatee was eating a fish in the water!”, “I called the dolphins over to me!”, “we almost caught a huge stingray!”, ”I tripped over a log and that’s why I just [...]
Adult permit are absolutely enormous fish. Trachinotus falcatus routinely average twenty to twenty-five pounds but the record holder for Florida waters was 51 lbs 8 ounces! Its incredible then, to me, that such substantial adults start life as such a diminutive size.
When I first began teaching in the IRL system, these tiny reddish and silver [...]
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