Aquarium Dumping Into The Lake

    While doing field surveys evidence is occasionally found to indicate that unwanted aquarium specimens have been dumped into local water bodies. This evidence usually takes the form of aquarium gravel and/or empty shells of species not native to the individual water bodies. However, sometimes the evidence of dumping is not so subtle such as this aquarium decoration retrieved from the FSCJ lake on 4/30/2007. This dumping activity is usually illegal in that it often involves the introduction of non-native, sometimes potentially destructive species into Florida waters. The presence of three large South American Applesnails in Duval County, Pomacea diffusa, P. canaliculata, and P. maculata, may be the result of such activity.

Aquarium Dumping Into The Lake