The male bowfin’s fins turn a brilliant lime green during the spawning season, making him a very handsome fellow. They prefer water bodies with heavy vegetation, but do inhabit clear water lakes. Their diet consists of anything that looks edible, but is mainly other fish. They can survive out of water for 2-3 days. Bowfins have the unique ability to breathe with their gills or gulp air, which is then absorbed into the blood in the lung-like air bladder. Males have an eyespot near the tail, which is black surrounded by an orange halo. An average female is 26-28 inches long and five pounds, while the typical male is 20-26 inches and four pounds. However, many LP lakes have bowfin populations.īowfins are named after their long dorsal fin, which runs 2/3 of the body length, which enables them to swim forward and backward. We are at the northern limit of its range. In the U.P., they can be found in the Menominee River, in Lake Huron off Cedarville, and the Lake Superior basin only in the St Louis and Middle Rivers in Wisconsin. Lawrence River, south to the Gulf Coast, from east Texas to all of Florida. They are found from the Mississippi River drainage east to the St. They are factually a living fossil.īowfins are native to North America, common in the Eastern U.S. They are the sole survivor of a group of fish dating back 150 million years to the Jurassic Age when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. The bowfin could logically be called a Jurassic Park fish.
0 kommentar(er)
