Lab #7

Date: 3/16/16

Location: Lumber River Conservancy

Lab Activity: Surveying fish with the use of fish traps

Habitat: Shallow freshwater pond

Temperature: 85 F

Wind: 12 mph

Humidity: 35%

    45 fish traps were placed in a pond and creek system at 10 AM on March 15th, 2016 and then collected the next day.

Numbers caught of each species:

Amphibians:
  Amphiuma 1
  Lesser Siren 1

 Fish:
  Red Finned Pickerel 1
  Chain Pickerel 3
  Pirate Perch 4
  Black Banded Sunfish 19
  Bluegill 9
  Blue Spotted Sunfish 30
  Lined Topminnows 22
  Mosquito Fish 11
  

Bluespotted Sunfish (Enneacanthus gloriosus)

    A member of the sunfish family, Centrarchidae, the Bluespotted can be found in freshwater habitats such as ponds and lakes all over the eastern United States. They have been introduced in some new regions such as the Mississippi watershed. They prefer the still or sluggish water habitats such as a pond or an oxbow.