![]() ![]() That reason is as of yet unknown, Taylor said. "Apparently, as many as one-third of all snook don't spawn for some reason." "We just figured out that not all female snook spawn every year during the summertime spawning season," said Ron Taylor, the state's lead biologist with respect to all matters snook. ![]() There has been a widely accepted misconception about the subject of snook conception. And for the snook research team that works for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, it's a well-studied phenomenon that aids them in understanding one of Florida's most important game fish species.īut recent studies have uncovered a wrinkle in the book on spawning habits for the carefully managed fish. It's a cycle of life that began for these popular finfish millions of years before the first angler learned how to bait a circle hook with a live pilchard. Out there in the open water, male snook sperm that have also been released to mix with eggs and complete the miracle of snook birth. Not long after her arrival, an instinctual cue triggers her and dozens of other nearby female snook to release thousands of tiny snook eggs into the tidal current. Lucie Inlet's jetty, a large female snook completes her day's journey downstream from Palm City Bay. In the balmy sea water along the rocks at St. LUCIE INLET ? The moon is full on a warm July evening. ![]()
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