While we’ve been spared (so far) by any sort of climate shenanigans like a polar vortex this winter, our lakes have had a nice thick cover of ice on for a month or more. And …
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Fish Fry Day Video: White Suckers Can’t Go Home Again
You can’t go home again. While the sentiment means something a bit more figurative to those of us who traveled for the Holidays, for Great Lakes fishes the statement is all too literal. In fact, …
Fish Fry Day Redux: Up All Night to Get Musky
The Center for Limnology‘s Holiday Party is tonight. It is also Fish Fry Day. This means an early Christmas present to you, our readers! Last year, our house band Phantom Midge emerged with a rockin’ …
Fish Fry Day: Announcing New Website – Fish on the Run
Happy Fish Fry Day folks! Before you tune out for the rest of the day and dream of delicious fried fillets of your favorite fish, we’d like to introduce you to a brand-new website all …
Fish Fry Day: Great Lakes Fisheries
Happy Fish Fry Day! This week, we’re bringing you an excellent roundtable discussion about Great Lakes fisheries via the program, “Great Lakes Now Connect.” If you’ve ever wondered about the past, present or future of …
Fish Fry Day: Fish on the Move
Solomon David spoke at the CFL last week about the November migrations of the Great Lakes populations of whitefish. We started thinking about ways to spread the message that keeping fish “on the move” is …
Fish Fry Day: Ancient Fish, Windy City
Last month, Illinois Department of Natural Resources fisheries biologists on a routine patrol of the North Shore Channel, a straight as an arrow, concrete-lined tributary of the Chicago River, made a surprising find. They gave …
Field Samples: Snorkleing in Thailand
Welcome to our new “Field Samples” series. We conduct so much cool research at the CFL, that it’s hard to keep track. So, each week, we’ll do a Q&A with a faculty member, post doc, …
Fish Fry Day Video: The Salmon Cannon
If you go around the Twitter-verse hashtagging things like #salmoncannon (thanks @USFWSColeman!), chances are we’re going to notice here at the blog. So, without further ado, a mesmerizing video of the latest in safe, yet …
The Tables Turned: Fish Eat Mammals More Often Than You Think
The following is from The Nature Conservancy’s “Cool Green Science” blog on a study co-led by new CFL post-doc, Peter Lisi. By Matt Miller, senior science writer, TNC — A shrew, hunting insects along a …