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 [...]
I thought I might take some time out every few field trips to start taking, logging, and posting photos of some of the juvenile fish and other creatures that inhabit Indian River Lagoon waters. Since the lagoon is a nursery ground for several dozen fish species (perhaps hundreds in fact) there are many stages of [...]
Would you like a swarm of seahorses? Voila! These juvenile lined seahorse and dwarf seahorse beauties – Hippocampus erectus and Hippocampus zosterae – were popping up in seine nets by the dozens. So were at least two species of pipefish, juvenile permit, seagrass blennies, bay anchovy, juvenile needlefish, juvenile redfish, comb jellies and a wide array [...]
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