| Gainesville Field Office 7922 NW 71st Street Gainesville, FL 32606  Phone: 352/392-9617 Fax: 352/392-3462 Manager: Gary Warren Email: gary.warren@MyFWC.com |
The Gainesville Office is co-located with the IFAS Aquatic Plant Facility, the University of Florida, School of Aquaculture and Fisheries field office, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service Caribbean Research Station.
Fish and Wildlife Conservation personnel there are responsible for fisheries data analysis and programming, and for Orange and Newnan's lakes and Rodman Reservoir. |
OVERVIEW
The Gainesville Field Office was established in 1987 to increase interaction with personnel at the University of Florida, School of Aquaculture and Fisheries, IFAS' Aquatic Plant Center, and the USFWS Caribbean Fisheries Research Center. It currently houses three projects. These are: a statewide fisheries statistics study, the Orange/Newnan's/Lochloosa Project, and the Statewide Aquatic Invertebrate Research Program.
Statewide Fisheries Statistics
Study
The statistics project helps
to maintain a statewide data base of freshwater fisheries information. It also
provides a resource for fisheries biologists to obtain expertise in the
statistical analysis of data and comparison to other freshwater resources and
historical trends. This helps provide consistency of interpretation of
information relative to freshwater fisheries.
Lower Oklawaha River
Project
This project focuses primarily on Orange Lake, Lake
Newnan's, Lake Lochloosa and Rodman Reservoir. It not only provides needed
information on the fish population, aquatic habitat and angler-use statistics
but more importantly is involved in habitat management, fisheries regulation
management and fish population manipulations (e.g., stocking) to achieve our
goal of optimum-sustained use of these highly valuable fisheries
resources.
Statewide Aquatic Invertebrate
Research Program
Aquatic invertebrates are near the base of the food chain and
as such are vital to fish survival and growth. This research team provides a
statewide resource for evaluating the health of aquatic invertebrates, which can
often serve as an early environmental warning for pollution problems. They also
strive to provide other fisheries scientists with information that may help
maintain the invertebrate forage base and thus assist in maintaining fish
populations and protecting aquatic habitat.
