A team led by University of Georgia ecologists documented two new species of black bass, Bartram’s bass and Altamaha bass, in a new paper.
A team led by University of Georgia ecologists documented two new species of black bass, Bartram’s bass and Altamaha bass, in a new paper.
Though descriptions of the two species are new, sightings of the fish are not. Ecologist Bud Freeman first encountered Micropterus pucpuggy, now known as Bartram’s bass, in the 1980s. A couple on the Broad River showed him the fish in their cooler, and he knew immediately that it was different, offering them $5 for it. Their response? “No, man. We’re taking it home and eating it.”
“That would have been an important specimen,” said Freeman, lead author of the study and a senior public service associate emeritus at the UGA Odum School of Ecology.
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