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Outdoors: A Family of Volunteers at the Refuge
December 5th, 2010

Outdoors: Bird Walk Set for Monday Dec. 6
December 3rd, 2010

Outdoors: Join In the Great Suwannee River Cleanup Saturday
November 29th, 2010

Outdoors: Red-cockaded Woodpeckers Moved to New Home
November 1st, 2010

Outdoors: 25th Annual Coastal Cleanup Saturday
September 21st, 2010

Outdoors: Dolphin Research Team Needs Fish
June 13th, 2010

Outdoors: Business Spotlight: Dan May Island Adventure
May 26th, 2010

Outdoors: Nature Walk Monday
January 31st, 2010

Outdoors: Free State Park Admission on Veterans Day
November 6th, 2009

Outdoors: Shell Mound to be Temporarily Closed for Improvements
September 24th, 2009

Outdoors: Join International Coastal Cleanup and Cover Net Week in Cedar Key
September 17th, 2009

Outdoors: Youth Discover Shired Island in Refuge Program
August 24th, 2009

Outdoors: Learn About Scallops Saturday
June 2nd, 2009

Outdoors: Refuge Volunteer Receives Award
May 19th, 2009

Outdoors: Hunters Invited to Refuge Hunt Group Meeting
May 3rd, 2009

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Learn About Scallops Saturday

Learn About Scallops Saturday

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Invites you to come and enjoy a presentation
at the Cedar Key Public Library
Saturday June 6 at 11:00 am


Florida Bay Scallop:


Current Status and FWC`s Monitoring Program

Guest Speaker: Steve Geiger of FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute

Florida bay scallop monitoring, management and restoration have progressed from simple restoration projects in 1972 to the current comprehensive program. A 16-year monitoring effort has revealed long-term shifts and dramatic variability in adult populations. Scallop recruits are observed in discrete fall and spring peaks as well as
in protracted periods of very low recruitment. Today, the primary goal of scallop restoration in Florida involves multi-institutional cooperation with the goal of restoring
critical links in the Gulf coast metapopulation.

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