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In Managing the World’s Fisheries, Scientists Angle for More Attention to “Fishing for Fun”

Posted on March 19, 2019

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. …

Posted in Faculty Research, Fish, Fishing, Boating & Water RecreationTagged recreational fishery, Steve Carpenter, walleye

Thanks to 11-Year-Old Henry Foster, Arkansas Will Soon Have a State Fish

Posted on March 15, 2019

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 …

Posted in Fish, Fish Fry DayTagged GARkansas, Henry Foster, state fish

Happy Valentine’s Day to the Fish That Builds Walls – For Love.

Posted on February 14, 2019

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 …

Posted in Fish, Fish Fry DayTagged aquatic ecology, build a wall, Fish Fry Day, spawning, ValentinesASpecies

Guest Post: Pet Fish or Alien Invader?

Posted on January 22, 2019

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 …

Posted in Fish, Invasive SpeciesTagged aquarium fishes, invasive species, pet fish, Solomon David, The Fisheries Blog

The Surprising Connection Between Water Levels in Lakes and Mercury in Fish

Posted on December 20, 2018

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 …

Posted in Fish, LTER, Trout Lake StationTagged Carl Watras, mercury fish, walleye, Wisconsin DNR, Wisconsin lakes

UW-Madison Undergrads Cast a Wide Net to Catch Ecological Change on McDermott Lake

Posted on September 19, 2018

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 …

Posted in Fish, Graduate Student Research, Trout Lake StationTagged bass, Holly Embke, McDermott Lake, Trout Lake Station, walleye, whole-lake experiment

80,000 Fish Later, Researcher Wraps Up Summer Season of “Bass-Walleye” Study

Posted on September 7, 2018

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 – …

Posted in Fish, Graduate Student Research, Trout Lake StationTagged bass, bass-walleye, fisheries science, Holly Embke, Jake Vander Zanden, Trout Lake Station, walleye

Fish by the Light of the Blood Moon: Late-Night Research on Northwoods Lakes

Posted on August 27, 2018

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 …

Posted in Fish, LTER, Trout Lake StationTagged electrofishing, Long Term Ecological Research, lter, Noah Lottig, Pam Montz, walleye, Wisconsin fishing, yellow perch

Forensic Fishing: Using eDNA to Track Fish Populations

Posted on August 20, 2018

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 …

Posted in Fish, Graduate Student Research, Trout Lake StationTagged eDNA, fisheries management, Mike Spear, Northwoods, Trout Lake Station, walleye

Study Finds “Hidden Harvest” in World’s Inland Fisheries

Posted on June 18, 2018

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 …

Posted in Fish, Global Change & Long-Term EcologyTagged Etienne Fluet-Chouniard, Food and Agriculture Organization, food security, global food security, Pete McIntyre
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