Happy Fish Fry Day folks! You’ll find perch and walleye specials at our fair state’s eateries today, but here on the blog we’ve got a tiny little martyr on the menu – the blacknose shiner. We’re working our way through the epic 13-foot long “Fishes of Wisconsin Poster” hanging in our hallway and, well, when …
It’s Fish Fry Day and fish is on the menu! We’re working our way across the “Fishes of Wisconsin” poster finding morsels of info for every species of fishes found in Wisconsin. Today’s special: the Western Mosquitofish. Take a moment to look at the map below. The orange color shows the native range of the …
by Sean Simoneau, Oak Ridge National Laboratory simoneausm@ornl.gov December 20, 2016—Scientific discovery can come from anywhere, but few researchers can say the answers to their questions would come from the pea-sized bones in the head of a six-foot-long, 200-pound prehistoric freshwater fish. In a unique pairing of biology and neutron science, researchers from the Department …
by Matt Miller, The Nature Conservancy – If you’re thinking about how fisheries feed people around the globe, chances are you start picturing oceans. The images of saltwater commercial fishing are everywhere around us: on popular cable television shows, on the supermarket shelf, even on conservation blogs like this one. But what about freshwater fisheries? …
How is it that time of year already??? Seems crazy, but this tumultuous year is drawing to a close and tonight the CFL celebrates with our annual Holiday Party. While Phantom Midge is dormant again this year, we’ll always have the 2013 Christmas Party. (With apologies to Daft Punk). Happy Fish Fry Day!
Friday’s are when fish are on the menu both at Wisconsin restaurants and your trusty blog. Today, we’re taking a break from our “Fishes of Wisconsin” challenge and mixing things up with a more “southern-fried” piece on alligator gar via the World Fishing Network’s blog. It’s a beautifully written piece, and you should check out …
We’re going to admit that we still favor the more life-like illustrations of the gigantic “Fishes of Wisconsin” folder but, well, you have to give props to biodiversity! Presenting the Freshwater Fish of America, perhaps the only fish-related poster you will ever need. (Excepting that Wisconsin one, of course!) Details about the poster are here. …
It’s a cold, overcast day at the end of March and Petrifying Springs Park is brown and leafless – still waiting on its spring greenery. Which means it’s a great day to find some fish here where Pike Creek flows into the Pike River. Specifically, John Rodstrom, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Limnology, …
If you live, well, pretty much anywhere in North America, you know that spring is springing early this year. And while that means ice-free lakes, blooming crocuses and the return of all sorts of birds, it also means that fish are getting ready to move. This spring, (starting next week, in fact) we’ll be bringing …
by Chelsey Blanke Last week, students in UW-Madison’s Ecology of Fishes lab course had the privilege of visiting WDNR’s Nevin Fish Hatchery, just a 15-minute drive from campus. Field trips are a major component of the course’s content and this was the first time it’s included a hatchery tour. Fish hatchery and stocking operations are …