Nearly 35 percent of all seafood caught in the United States is caught by marine sport fishermen. In fact, studies show sport fishermen ofte...
Read More about Handling and Preserving Seafood from Water to Table
People have used smoking to preserve red meat, poultry, and seafood for thousands of years. Worldwide, smoking still ranks alongside salting...
Read More about Smoking Alabama Seafood
Lakes and ponds can develop dense stands of aquatic vegetation that interfere with intended uses and destroy the natural beauty of the water...
Read More about Weed Management in Lakes and Ponds
Corrosivity is defined as the condition of water that causes it to dissolve metals, such as those in metallic plumbing, at an excessive rate...
Read More about Water Corrosivity and Your Plumbing System
Fisheries biologists use many different tools and techniques to determine the proper management of fish populations in our lakes, streams, a...
Read More about Relative Weight: An Easy-to-Measure Index of Fish Condition
Red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, is one of 160 species of fish that scientists place in the drum family (Sciaenidae). Other drums familiar to ...
Read More about Red Drum in Alabama
The gray triggerfish, Balistes capriscus, is one of the most abundant fishes along the northeast Gulf of Mexico. It is also one of the most ...
Read More about Life History of the Gray Triggerfish
Jellyfish are regular inhabitants of the saltwater bays, bayous, and Gulf beaches of Alabama. As many as sixty different kinds of jellyfish ...
Read More about Jellyfish in Alabama
Bull minnows (Fundulus grandis), also known as gulf killifish, mudminnows, mudfish, cacahoes, and finger mullet, are commonly sold by bait d...
Read More about Growing Bull Minnows in Alabama
Pond owners have sometimes intentionally and sometimes accidentally introduced freshwater clams or mussels into their recreational ponds. Wh...
Read More about Freshwater Clams and Mussels
Crabs, along with shrimp, lobsters, and crawfish, are among the invertebrates called decapods (10 feet) that are included in the class Cru...
Read More about Blue Crabs in Alabama
Three native penaeid shrimp species of commercial importance live in the Southern Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States: Litopenaeus...
Read More about Aquaculture of Bait Shrimp on the Gulf Coast