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Like Counting Fish in a Barrel – eDNA Shows Promise in Estimating Sportfish Populations

Posted on June 8, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Anglers often lament how hard it can be to land a fish for dinner, but the tougher job usually falls to fisheries managers, who have set sustainable catch limits for the fishes …

Posted in Fish, Graduate Student Research, Hasler LabTagged Center for Limnology, eDNA, Michael Spear, walleye, Wisconsin DNR, Wisconsin fishing

Guest Post: Big Lake, Big Fish? How Habitat Affects Fish Size and Numbers

Posted on May 6, 2020

Yesterday, the folks over at The Meat Eater blog posted an awesome article about the link between fish size and habitat featuring CFL alum, Jereme Gaeta. We thought readers of this blog would also be …

Posted in Fish, Fishing, Boating & Water RecreationTagged bass, big fish, Jereme Gaeta, lunkers, The Meat Eater, walleye

Learn Your Lakes: Fish on the Move

Posted on April 13, 2020

Ah, it’s mid-April in Wisconsin and, right on cue, snow popped back up in the forecast and temperatures this week are going to struggle to get above freezing. Spring, it seems, is on hold for …

Posted in Fish, Learn Your LakesTagged fish migration, Learn Your Lakes, northern pike, suckers, walleye, Wisconsin fishes

Blog Redux: Our Weekend as a Walleye Nursery: Video and Pics

Posted on November 22, 2019

After a week of our walleye research in the news, it made us think back on past posts. Then we stumbled upon this one from 2013 when, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources fisheries biologist, Kurt …

Posted in Fish, Fishing, Boating & Water Recreation, Hasler LabTagged Center for Limnology, fishing, Jereme Gaeta, Lake Mendota, Ted Bier, University of Wisconsin-Madison, walleye, WDNR

Study says “hidden overharvest” from fishing plays a role in Wisconsin walleye declines

Posted on November 18, 2019

By — Adam Hinterthuer, hinterthuer@wisc.edu MADISON – Over the last few decades, walleye in Wisconsin have been on a downward trend. As lakes in the upper Midwest warm thanks to climate change, they offer less …

Posted in Fish, Fishing, Boating & Water Recreation, Graduate Student ResearchTagged featured, Jake Vander Zanden

How A CFL Alum Got ‘Hooked’ Into the Fight Over a Giant Gold Mine

Posted on October 30, 2019

We just had to share this amazing story from Science magazine about how Daniel Schindler, a Center for Limnology alum and one of the world’s foremost experts on Pacific salmon, found himself in the middle …

Posted in CFL In The News, FishTagged Bristol Bay, featured, Science magazine

Guest post: Hot take on our planet – freshwater biodiversity

Posted on August 5, 2019

Our friends at the Fisheries Blog do good work – you should check them out. Here’s a post from past CFL postdoc, Solomon David, on how nature documentaries seem to ignore freshwater systems and why …

Posted in Fish, Science CommunicationTagged featured, freshwater biodiversity, Solomon David, The Fisheries Blog

Lights, Camera, Action! Fishing in the Dark

Posted on June 14, 2019

Trout Lake Station’s summer science communication intern, Bethany Prochnow, wasted no time getting out with a field crew. Read below to learn why she went fishing in the dark.

Posted in Fish, LTER, Trout Lake StationTagged Bethany Prochnow, Holly Embke, Northwoods, Trout Lake Station, walleye, Wisconsin fishing

Local adaptation can sustain walleye fisheries in the face of habitat loss

Posted on May 7, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Recent research by a team of scientists reveals that walleye decline in Mille Lacs is linked to loss of habitat and indicates that by adapting harvest policies to account for changing …

Posted in Fish, Fishing, Boating & Water Recreation, Global Change & Long-Term EcologyTagged Gretchen Hansen

Students Solve Case of the ‘Mystery Fish’ on UW-Madison Fieldtrip

Posted on April 23, 2019

by Rob Mooney – Spring is always a busy time for people that study freshwater ecosystems in the Midwest – lakes begin to thaw, streams rise after the snow melts, and many species of fishes …

Posted in Fish, Fish Fry Day, Undergraduate ResearchTagged Badger Mill Creek, limnology
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