Center for Fisheries Enhancement

Program for Fisheries Habitat Ecology

Snook


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Mission Statement

The Fisheries Habitat Ecology Program will achieve success in its efforts to understand
and maintain the integrity of fish habitats through collaborations and a sound scientific
approach, by conducting research that is applicable to management, and through
outreach and education.


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Fisheries Habitat Ecology Program Approach

To the degree that benthic habitat connectivity is an important component of fish habitat use and
fish distribution, it will be important to determine how ecological processes (e.g., growth, competition, predation,
density-dependence) that operate within these habitats differ. This is especially important given the pace of
anthropogenic habitat fragmentation in coastal areas. Studies of these processes should be framed within the context
of habitat mosaics and dispersal corridors to better understand how habitat distribution influences fishes. Among the
questions of interest in the Fisheries Habitat Ecology Program:

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Maggie and Kirby w/ seine

Pine Island Staff

Aaron Adams - Program Manager


Kirby Wolfe - Senior Biologist


Maggie Newton - Staff Biologist
Maggie and Kirby pull in the 150' seine
in a local creek.(Photo by Andrew West
of the Fort Myers News Press)


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Research

Collecting Gut Contents
Sampling gut contents of an adult
Snook in a local creek.
(Photo byAndrew West of
the Fort Myers News Press)


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Miscellaneous

Sunset at the Pine Island Field House
A beautiful sunset seen from behind the Pine
Island Field House.(Photo By Aaron Adams)

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Last Updated on: February 19, 2004