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Cal of the Wild

Ep. 299: Black Bear B&E, Virginia Otter Problems, and Florida Took Our Bass

Cal of the Wild

MeatEater

Education, Sports, Wilderness

4.89.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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This week, Cal talks about the genetics behind Florida's appropriation of black bass, black bears causing car problems, otters causing angler friction, wildlife crime, and so much more.

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0:00.0

Are you looking for some great listening material for car rides this summer?

0:04.1

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0:10.1

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0:13.2

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0:18.1

getting lost for days hunting turkeys in a tornado,

0:21.2

and getting an accurate premonition about a 24 point buck in a dream.

0:26.0

Pre-order it now. It's available wherever audio books are sold and while you're

0:30.5

waiting for it to release you can bone up on the last two

0:34.0

editions of meat eaters campfire stories my own family never tires of listening to

0:39.7

these adventures give them a try and as always you can write into campfire stories at the meat eater.com

0:46.4

if you'd like to share one of your own stories. It's meat eaters campfire stories,

0:51.9

discoveries, revelations, and near misses narrated by me Stephen Ronella. From Meat Eater's World News Headquarters in Bozeman, Montana, this is Cowl's Week in Review with Ryan Cow, Callan. Here's Cal.

1:17.0

The largemouth bass is out and the Florida bass is in, at least according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

1:27.0

The agency announced last week that what most people call a largemouth will from henceforth be known as the Florida bass.

1:35.6

How can the Sunshine State rename America's most popular game fish?

1:39.8

A study published in 2022 in the journal Scientific Reports used genetic testing to confirm that the

1:46.7

Florida bass, which lives in Florida as well as parts of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina,

1:52.1

is in fact a distinct species of black baths.

1:56.0

The American Fisheries Society confirmed those results and the FWC is following suit.

2:01.7

There are actually nine commonly known species of black bass, which all share

2:06.0

the genus Micropterous. The most common are the largemouth and small mouth, but scientists have also identified the Alabama bass,

2:15.4

Guadalupe bass, red-eye bass, shoal bass, spotted bass, and suvani bass. However, this latest genetic study identified a whopping 19 black bass species,

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