Coral Reef and Mangrove Residents
Dave Grant, Sandy Hook, NJ
Protecting reefs, Birdlife, Underwater views, Shorelines

	Some fish spend their entire life on the reefs, but many live in the surrounding sand flats and mangrove swamps. Many fishes rely on the mangroves as nursery grounds.
Black (?) grouper - Mycteroperca	Bonefish - Albula
Permit - Trachinotus	Lookdowns - Selene
Snook - Centropomus	Porkfish - Anisotremus
Tarpon - Megalops
	In the freshwater and brackish rivers north of the keys, primitive fishes like gars can be encountered in shallow water (Below) along with snook (Left)
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