6 Selected Fish Species from Congaree National Park

The Congaree National Park, located near Columbia, South Carolina, is the largest remaining bottomland forest in Southeastern North America and has the largest trees east of the Mississippi. It’s mostly a swamp and hosts an abundance of aquatic species of wildlife. I follow Friends of the Congaree on my Facebook page, and recently they posted photos of a fish survey they took. They put the fish in aquariums on display. They found over 6 species. Location of Congaree National Park. This tank held freshwater shrimp, warmouth sunfish, dollar sunfish, pirate perch, piedmont darter, and mosquitofish. I once caught a freshwater shrimp with a net when I was trying to capture crayfish. Bluegill, striped sunfish, madtom, and crayfish. The aquarium pictured above this holds a spotted sunfish. The pirate perch (Aphredodurus sayanus) prefers still, clear, warm water. They get their name because they will eat all the smaller fish in a tank. In the wild they mostly eat insect larva, glass shrimp,…