Florida State University
COLEMAN & KOENIG LABORATORY

Dr. Felicia C. Coleman
Scholar Scientist
Email: coleman@bio.fsu.edu
Phone: 850.697.4120
  Dr. Christopher C. Koenig
Associate in Research
Email: koenig@bio.fsu.edu
Phone: 850.697.4139

Our Labs Research
Coleman & Koenig
Laboratory
Our Labs Research
Certificate Program
in Marine Biology
Mote Eminent
Scholar Chair
Coastal and Marine
Lab Home Page
Department of Biological Science

Additional Links:

• FSUCML Academic Diving
• National Marine Fisheries
Service
U.S. Fisheries Landings Since Magnuson Shelf-Edge Reefs of the N. E. Gulf of Mexico
Fish on dock

Recreational fishing is responsible for 23% of the harvest of overfished stocks in the United States, over 60% in the Gulf of Mexico. Both the Pew Oceans Report and the U. S. Commission on Ocean Policy Report identified overfishing as a serious problem for the health of the seas.  Read the article from Science with letters to the editor  from recreational fishing groups and from fishery scientists with our responses.
Shelf-Edge Reefs of the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico

Investigations of fish populations, community structure, habitat, and geology of west Florida shelf and Atlantic coast shelf-edge reefs. This site is still under construction.
Cooperative Research with Fisherman Ecology and life history of the Gulf of Mexico reef fish
We are conducting tagging studies of reef fishes with commercial and recreational fishermen in the offshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico with commercial and recreational fishermen and developing bioeconomic models of fishermen's behavior relative to marine protected areas.

Help Us with our Tagging Study
Meet with the scientists to discuss Results of reef fish ecology study Tuesday, December 13, 2005, at 6 PM at the Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve.

There will also be a drawing from tag returns of the tagging study. Each FSU tag mailed to us with appropriate catch information (location, species of fish, size of fish) will be entered into a drawing for a $500 GRAND PRIZE. 		Our research lab has been studying grouper for the last 15 years. These species share many life history characteristics, some of which make them vulnerable to rapid overexploitation. We find also that their overall behaviors differ markedly from one another, making them particularly interesting to study. On the sites below are provided.
Marine Fish Trophic Studies
Evaluating the effect of environmental disturbance on the trophic structure of Florida Bay, U.S.A.: Multiple stable isotope analyses of contemporary and historical specimens.
Trophic patterns of Red Drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) and Common Snook (Centropomus undecimalis) in Florida Bay and adjacent waters revealed through diet and isotopic analyses

FSU Coastal & Marine Laboratory • 3618 Coastal Highway • St. Teresa, FL 32358-2702
Phone • 850.697.4113