Continuous seismic-reflection survey defining shallow sedimentary layers in the Charlotte Harbor and Venice areas, southwest Florida

Tarpon fishing offers the opportunity to pursue a narrative of environmental and sport history that focuses on the mutuality between ecology and development. Angling for tarpon illustrates the capacity of an offshore, sporting species to alter the landscape and growth of an entire region. Tarpon fishing reshaped the southwest coast of Florida. In the Charlotte Harbor region, the confluence of human and nonhuman species catalyzed a sporting enterprise that grew dramatically in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Fishing for tarpon in the Gulf of Mexico was almost exclusively a sporting pursuit, because the unpalatable tarpon had little commercial value. The convergence of the sporting and environmental histories of southwest Florida, the demographics of fishermen and fish, and the development of sporting industries regionally and nationally all provide evidence of the close ecological mutuality that defined tarpon angling during its peak years. On account of features of the fish's annual and life cycle, the region, and the sport, this fishing seemed not to overtax populations of the fish themselves.

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Circulation Dynamics and Seasonal Variability for the Charlotte Harbor Estuary, Southwest Florida Coast

Journal of Coastal Research ◽

10.2112/jcoastres-d-19-00071.1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 276

Author(s):

Bass Dye ◽

Felix Jose ◽

Mohammad Nabi Allahdadi

Keyword(s):

Seasonal Variability ◽

Charlotte Harbor ◽

Southwest Florida ◽

Circulation Dynamics

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Comparison Of Geophysically Defined Hard Bottom And Visually Detected Live Bottom In The Charlotte Harbor Area Of The Southwest Florida Continental Shelf

10.1109/oceans.1983.1152023 ◽

1983 ◽

Author(s):

D. Gettleson ◽

K. Spring ◽

R. Hammer ◽

R. Putt

Keyword(s):

Continental Shelf ◽

Charlotte Harbor ◽

Southwest Florida ◽

Harbor Area

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Literature assessment of the Charlotte Harbor estuarine system and surrounding area, Southwest Florida

Open-File Report ◽

10.3133/ofr83127 ◽

1983 ◽

Author(s):

Yvonne E. Stoker ◽

George A. Karavitis

Keyword(s):

Estuarine System ◽

Charlotte Harbor ◽

Surrounding Area ◽

Southwest Florida

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Recreational Boater-Based Method for Re-designing the NOS Small-Craft Chart

EDIS ◽

10.32473/edis-sg083-2008 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 2009 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Gustavo Antonini ◽

Niels West ◽

Charles Sidman ◽

Robert Swett

Keyword(s):

Tampa Bay ◽

Environmental Stewardship ◽

Charlotte Harbor ◽

Southwest Florida ◽

Project Report ◽

Grant Program ◽

Small Craft

New to EDIS! TP-107, a 145-page illustrated project report by Gustavo Antonini, Niels West, Charles Sidman, and Robert Swett, reports on a project to determine chart information which would satisfy criteria for safe, modern navigation and promote environmental stewardship. The prototype chart covers the southwest Florida coast from lower Tampa Bay to Charlotte Harbor. Published by the Florida Sea Grant Program, December 2000. Reviewed March 2008.

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Occurrence and biogeographic significance of Heliaster (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) from the Pliocene of southwest Florida

Journal of Paleontology ◽

10.1017/s0022336000058960 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 62 (01) ◽

pp. 126-132 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Douglas S. Jones ◽

Roger W. Portell

Keyword(s):

Central American ◽

Eastern Pacific ◽

Whole Body ◽

Marine Fauna ◽

Western Atlantic ◽

Southwest Florida ◽

Extant Species ◽

Geologic Record ◽

Central American Isthmus

Whole body asteroid fossils are rare in the geologic record and previously unreported from the Cenozoic of Florida. However, specimens of the extant species,Heliaster microbrachiusXantus, were recently discovered in upper Pliocene deposits. This marks the first reported fossil occurrence of the monogeneric Heliasteridae, a group today confined to the eastern Pacific. This discovery provides further non-molluscan evidence of the close similarities between the Neogene marine fauna of Florida and the modern fauna of the eastern Pacific. The extinction of the heliasters in the western Atlantic is consistent with the pattern of many other marine groups in the region which suffered impoverishment following uplift of the Central American isthmus.

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