April General Meeting

Kali Spurgin, with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Division of Marine Fisheries Management.

She will discuss the state of the fishery in Southwest Florida.

A FWC fisheries and wildlife biologist since 2016, Spurgin graduated in 2014 from Florida State University with a degree in biology/biological sciences. Between 2016 and 2019, she administered the statewide Lionfish Outreach and Control Program for the Division of Marine Fisheries Management.

Since 2019, Kali has been the FWC regional marine biologist serving Southwest Florida.

Kali will be joined by Andie Murray who has a Bachelor’s in Zoology from The Ohio State University, Andie moved to Florida and received a Master of Science in Conservation Biology at the University of South Florida.

She joined FWC in 2024 where she worked as a Wildlife Assistance Biologist in the Division of Habitat and Species Conservation. In Spring 2025, she joined the Division of Marine Fisheries Management as a Regional Biologist, focusing on fisheries management strategies that support inshore species such as redfish, snook, and spotted seatrout..