spotted gar
lepisosteus oculatus latin

Underwater technology such as a camera could be used to look for spotted gar.

Spotted gar was found to be a cancer risk with high concentrations of heavy metals and organic compounds.

Spotted gar has few predators therefore no invasive species are threatening the fish and need to be removed.

Snedden also advises Spotted gars eat 70 percent of their food intake at night compared to dusk and dawn.

Spotted gar desire clear pools of water, and anthropogenic factors can decrease their survivability.

Spotted gar are long and have a elongated mouth with many teeth used to eat other fish and crustaceans.

Current management plans for spotted gar include: increasing water quality, minimizing or avoiding pollution, analyzing contaminated samples.

Abiotic factors that affect the spotted gar by humans include destruction of habitat and increased sedimentation in the water.

Habitat for spotted gar is clear pools of shallow water and they are found in creeks, rivers and lakes.

Spotted gar is not a popular game fishing species to anglers, but to bow fishers they are a prized species to shoot.

Lepisosteus oculatus (Spotted gar)

The spotted gar Lepisosteus oculatus is a part of the Gar family (Lepisosteidae).

The Habitat Stewardship Program for Species at Risk works to protect the spotted gar and its habitat.

For Canadian waters the spotted gar is protected by the Species at Risk Act and the federal Fisheries Act.

Texas Parks and Wildlife: Spotted Gar (Lepisosteus oculatus)

Historical records indicate the spotted gar resided in the Thames river and Sydenham river in Ontario, Canada.

Some of the species of fish in Hickman Creek are smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, rock bass, bluegill, channel catfish, and spotted gar.

Fish species include Bluegill, Sunfish, Shortnose Gar, Spotted Gar, Crappie, Largemouth bass and Channel catfish.

Quantifying habitat requirements of four freshwater species at risk in Canada: Northern Madtom, Spotted Gar, Lake Chubsucker, and Pugnose Shiner.

Other species include: Alligator gars, chain pickerels, channel catfish, crass carp, Florida gars, Florida softshell turtles, longnose, and spotted gars.

The Louisiana Swamp exhibit is home to animals from the marsh and bayous of the Gulf Coast, including alligators, alligator snapping turtles, spotted gar, crayfish, catfish, and bullfrogs.

At last count, 750,000 fish had died: striped mullet, largemouth bass, yellow bass, freshwater drum, spotted gar, ladyfish, shad, buffalo, mosquito fish, carp, southern flounder, blue catfish and more.

Anglers could fill out surveys for how many spotted gars they have caught or for bow anglers to report how many spotted gars they shot each time.

When dealing with abiotic factors recommendations for spotted gar management would be to first know the factors that affect the gar and from there managers and environmentalists can set guidelines for the advantage of the species.

Shortnose gar can be discerned from other gar species in that they lack the upper jaw of the alligator gar, the long snout of the longnose gar, and the markings of the spotted gar.

Spotted Gar (Lepisosteus oculatus)