This holiday season (and Fish Fry Day!), we’re giving you a not-quite-Christmas carol courtesy of the Center for Limnology’s house band – Phantom Midge. It’s a song about big fish and the folks who chase …
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Fish Fry Day: Whitefish Runs Return to Wisconsin Rivers
Last week, an excellent article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel covered some great news – lake whitefish are migrating inland to spawn and, in many cases, fish were running up into tributaries where they hadn’t …
Fish [Black] Fry Day Video: “FIsh-nados” Lurk Off Chicago Shoreline
With apologies to the Syfy network and its outstanding ability to combine species into preposterous science fiction specials, we’re showcasing these videos our post doc, Solomon David, recently took with colleagues from the Shedd Aquarium …
Fish Fry Day: Video Explains Earbones
Just thought we’d share this excellent little animation explaining what an otolith is and what one can tell fisheries researchers. Credit goes to the folks at “From Reefs to Rivers,” Florida’s Fisheries blog for this …
Fish Fry Day: Fish Q? There’s an App for That
Happy Fish Fry Day! Restaurants around Wisconsin are warming up the deep fryers for our weekly feast and we’re putting fish on the menu here at the blog. Today’s special is an all-you-can-eat buffet of …
Fish Fry Day Goes Primitive
Happy Fish Fry Day, Folks! It’s the day when we (sometimes!) feature fish on the blog and any restaurant worth its salt features fish on the menu here in Wisconsin. Today we’re just going to …
Muckraking Mendota: “Take this fish and look at it”
Louis Agassiz was an early prominent ichthyologist (someone who studies fish) at Harvard in the mid-1800s. When one of his graduate students, Samuel Scudder, showed up for his first day, Agassiz told him to take …
Muckraking Mendota: Mouthing Off (with Fish)
Last fall, as I moved in to a new house, I asked my parents (who are regular patrons of rummage sales) to look for a taxidermied fish. When they scrounged up a musky, with its …
Muckraking Mendota: A Brief History of Fish
Last week, like every week this summer, I was out on the water looking for stories about Madison’s lakes. But, this time, I had company. One of the cooler summer jobs at the Center for …
Fish Fry Day – Bluegill (x3)
Happy Fish Fry Day! Here in Wisconsin, we’re putting cod, perch, and walleye on the menu and, here at the blog, we’ve got fun facts about native fish. Today’s special: bluegill, three ways. Bluegill aren’t …