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Outdoors: FAVOR Hosts Bird Walk March 5
March 3rd, 2007

Outdoors: Refuge Open House Saturday
February 22nd, 2007

Outdoors: Bird Walk Will Take Place Saturday
January 1st, 2007

Outdoors: FAVOR Presents Program on Reptiles Saturday
November 13th, 2006

Outdoors: Florida Humanities Council Visits Cedar Key
October 26th, 2006

Outdoors: Update: Students and Many Others Help Clean Up Our Coast
September 18th, 2006

Outdoors: Help Us Clean Up Our Coast
September 10th, 2006

Outdoors: YCC Gets Froggy
August 7th, 2006

Outdoors: Lighthouse Open House Announced
July 11th, 2006

Outdoors: Birding Event Seeks Volunteers
June 21st, 2006

Outdoors: June is Great Outdoors Recreation Month
June 2nd, 2006

Outdoors: May Tide Table
May 5th, 2006


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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