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  2. List of fishes of Florida - Wikipedia

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    Lives in fresh water and estuaries, migrating to spawn in the Sargasso Sea. American fourspot flounder: Hippoglossina oblonga: American gizzard shad: Dorosoma cepedianum: American harvestfish: Peprilus paru: American paddlefish: Polyodon spathula [5] American pickerel: Esox americanus: Also known as Redfin pickerel, brook pickerel, and Grass ...

  3. Environmental impact of fishing - Wikipedia

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    Jack mackerel caught by a Chilean purse seiner Fishing down the food web. Overfishing is the removal of a species of fish (i.e. fishing) from a body of water at a rate greater than that the species can replenish its population naturally (i.e. the overexploitation of the fishery's existing fish stock), resulting in the species becoming increasingly underpopulated in that area.

  4. Marine coastal ecosystem - Wikipedia

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    A marine coastal ecosystem is a marine ecosystem which occurs where the land meets the ocean. Worldwide there is about 620,000 kilometres (390,000 mi) of coastline. Coastal habitats extend to the margins of the continental shelves, occupying about 7 percent of the ocean surface area.

  5. Ecology of Florida - Wikipedia

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    Florida is surrounded on three sides by bodies of water: the Gulf of Mexico to the west, Florida Bay to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. In addition to its coastal habitats, Florida has a variety of wetland habitats, such as marshland, swampland, lakes, springs, and rivers. Florida's largest river is the St. Johns River.

  6. Wild fisheries - Wikipedia

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    Worldwide, freshwater lakes have an area of 1.5 million square kilometres. [44] Saline inland seas add another 1.0 million square kilometres. [45] There are 28 freshwater lakes with an area greater than 5,000 square kilometres, totalling 1.18 million square kilometres or 79 percent of the total. [46]

  7. FDA issues warning over oysters contaminated with paralytic ...

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    The shellfish in question include oysters and bay clams from Netarts Bay and Tillamook Bay, Oregon, harvested on or after May 28, and all shellfish species from the area of Willapa Bay, Washington ...

  8. Environment of Florida - Wikipedia

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    The following year, the state of Florida created the agency which eventually became the South Florida Water Management District, responsible for water quality, flood control, water supply and environmental restoration in 16 counties, from Orlando to the Florida Keys. [18] To control flooding, the Kissimmee River was straightened from 1962 to ...

  9. Shellfish - Wikipedia

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    Despite the name, shellfish are not fish. [2] Most shellfish are low on the food chain and eat a diet composed primarily of phytoplankton and zooplankton. [3] Many varieties of shellfish, and crustaceans in particular, are actually closely related to insects and arachnids; crustaceans make up one of the main subphyla of the phylum Arthropoda.