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Anglers! Planning On Grouper Or Snapper Fishing After Lobstering In The Atlantic? Read This Blog Before Getting A Ticket!

Posted: July 28, 2020

Are you heading to East coast or Keys during lobster season? Are you planning on fishing for grouper and snapper more than 3 miles offshore after limiting out on lobster? If the answer is yes both to those… Read More

Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Coasts & Marine, Conservation, Events, Livestock, Natural Resources, Recreation, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, Water, Wildlife, Work & Life

Tags: Atlantic, barotrauma, boyles law, Catch and Release, descending device, fishing, FL sea grant, gas, grouper, Gulf of Mexico, ideal gas law, lobster, Physics, regulation change, sea grant, snapper, swim bladder, venting

Weightless in the Water

by Betty Staugler

Posted: October 15, 2019

Being neutrally buoyant, or weightless in the water, allows fish to minimize the energy expenditure required to stay at a particular depth to feed, hide, reproduce or migrate. For a fish to be buoyant, it must displace an… Read More

Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural Resources, Wildlife

Tags: fish, Florida Sea Grant, swim bladder

The SNAP, CRACKLE, POP of fish sounds

by Betty Staugler

Posted: August 23, 2019

Did you know, there are over 800 fish species in the world that can purposefully make sounds? Fish make sounds for many reasons, including during feeding, defending or advertising territory, finding mates, courtship and spawning. Sound is important… Read More

Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural Resources, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Extension, Wildlife

Tags: fish, fish sounds, Florida Sea Grant, stridulation, swim bladder

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Anglers! Planning On Grouper Or Snapper Fishing After Lobstering In The Atlantic? Read This Blog Before Getting A Ticket!

Weightless in the Water

The SNAP, CRACKLE, POP of fish sounds