Bluegills: Biology and Behavior

Spotte (Mote Marine Laboratory, Florida) takes an unconventional approach in his depiction of an unconventional fish, long a favorite for sport. He does not seek to merely inform those who have an abstract or mundane relationship with the bluegill, but instead to help readers experience the fish. He enjoys the intellectual challenge of having the fish more or less speak for itself through its behaviors, so he describes bluegill movement, sensory perception, foraging, competition, predation, reproduction, development, growth, mortality and only then of its management, so readers get to know the fish before they begin to attempt to order them about.Spotte, Stephen is the author of 'Bluegills: Biology and Behavior', published 2007 under ISBN 9781888569933 and ISBN 188856993X.