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Florida has 3 million acres of freshwater lakes and
12,000 miles of streams and rivers. From those waters
over 250 different species of freshwater fishes have
been collected. This includes several rather rare native
fishes and 73 species of non-native fishes (fish that
come from outside of the United States and would not
have been found in Florida if it were not for man's
intervention).
The fish species that most people tend to think about
are the larger fish that are used for recreation or
food. Of those, the 33 most popular are part of the
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC)
"Big Catch" program and
some are described in detail in this section of our web
site.
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