Marine and Estuarine Fishes

While the Everglades is a freshwater habitat, its waters drain into and nourish the prolific estuarine and marine portions of Everglades National Park; the boundaries of which extend far out into Florida Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. Marine and estuarine fishes in these waters command abundant interest from aquarists, connoisseurs, and fishermen, but they are also an important food supply for many fish-eating birds. This supply does not form an annually concentrated biomass like the freshwater Everglades, but it is more consistently available on daily tidal cycles.472