MADISON – When we think about the world’s fisheries, the images that readily spring to mind are big ships hauling nets full of wriggling fish up from the depths of a lake or an ocean. …
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Thanks to 11-Year-Old Henry Foster, Arkansas Will Soon Have a State Fish
Happy Friday everyone. Here’s a fun story for you – an 11-year-old’s long quest to get a state fish for Arkansas has finally paid off! Yesterday, Henry Foster (along with his supportive mother and sidekick …
Happy Valentine’s Day to the Fish That Builds Walls – For Love.
Happy Valentine’s Day! Considering we’re still talking about a certain wall two years after we first published this, we thought it was time to reshare the tale of a fish that builds walls – for …
Guest Post: Pet Fish or Alien Invader?
If you aren’t following our friends at The Fisheries Blog, you should be. They post all kinds of fascinating science on the fishes of the world – like this recent post from our former post …
The Surprising Connection Between Water Levels in Lakes and Mercury in Fish
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact cjwatras (at) wisc (dot) edu, 608-356-4892 BOULDER JUNCTION, WI – A new study has found an unexpected connection between water levels in lakes and toxic mercury levels in fish. When droughts …
UW-Madison Undergrads Cast a Wide Net to Catch Ecological Change on McDermott Lake
Over the course of the last four months, PhD student Holly Embke and her team of undergraduate researchers have systematically removed more than 80,000 bass and panfish from McDermott Lake in southern Iron County as …
80,000 Fish Later, Researcher Wraps Up Summer Season of “Bass-Walleye” Study
by Sydney Widell – Holly Embke’s Subaru is nearly packed and, besides a few boxes, her desk is vacant. In a few hours, she’ll be leaving Trout Lake Station and driving home to Madison – …
Fish by the Light of the Blood Moon: Late-Night Research on Northwoods Lakes
Night was falling quickly over Big Muskellunge Lake. The pink glow of sunset was fading to grey, and a damp wind that cut through my thin raincoat had kicked up over the water. On our …
Forensic Fishing: Using eDNA to Track Fish Populations
by Sydney Widell – At the start of every fishing season, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources embarks on the arduous task of setting catch limits on the state’s popular game fish like walleye. In …
Study Finds “Hidden Harvest” in World’s Inland Fisheries
A new study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says we are dramatically underestimating the role inland fisheries play in global food security. While it’s widely known that people across …