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FGCU Fishing Club Fish Species Collection

The club helped collect fish specimens in Big Cypress National Preserve

A group of club members went out into big Cypress national preserve in order to help in a biological research project where we were tasked to identify animal species specifically for us the different fish species. We were able to record seven different fish species from 8am to 8pm, 12 hours, that we spent fishing and several different bird and reptile species as well. It is always a interesting process working with researchers has something very small to us could be very importatnt to them.

There were 5 of us there one takeing the picture and one came just after the picture was taken 60 hours in total.