"Scientists Discover New Species Of Bass in Florida"

FWC scientists caught this Choctaw bass, a previously unidentified black bass species, during sampling in Holmes Creek in the Panhandle.

  • The Choctaw bass looks like its relative, the spotted bass. The differences between the two are not easily discerned with the naked eye. That’s one reason the two had never before been distinguished, despite decades of bass studies in the region.

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