FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Madison, Wis. When it comes to water temperatures, fish can be a lot like Goldilocks. Some water bodies are too warm, others too cold, and a handful are “just right” – providing the perfect thermal habitat for a species to flourish. As lakes across the Midwestern United States continue to warm …
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 interested and they were kind enough to share. Enjoy! by Stephen Klobucar – Sam Rayburn. Okeechobee. Castaic. Erie. St. …
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 part of a whole-lake experiment studying the way those species interact with the lake’s declining walleye population. But in a …
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 – another field season behind her and a summer’s worth of data to process. Which means that Holly’s job is just …
When it comes to fish food webs, the basic narrative is that the bigger the fish, the bigger its prey. In fact, one of the measurements scientists often use to determine a predator’s potential diet is “gape size” which calculates, quite literally, the biggest possible thing a fish can fit into its mouth. But such …
by Riley Steinbrenner Week One One of the first things I did up north was walk on water–well, on a bog, that is! TLS Interim Director Susan Knight took CFL outreach/communications specialist Adam Hinterthuer and me out to “Why Not” bog (because, why not?), which is located across from Firefly Lake and nearby Crystal Lake. …
Following up on our call for political officials in Wisconsin to start taking climate change seriously, here is a post originally published in September of 2016 about one of the potential impacts global warming will have on Wisconsin and Midwest lakes. For more, check out the researchers’ amazing website! Climate change is predicted to alter …
This summer, Anna Krieg, an undergraduate at Arizona State University, will spend a few months in a much wetter habitat as the CFL’s summer outreach intern at our Trout Lake Station. Enjoy her Notes from the Northwoods: by Anna Krieg – Just as the sun is setting over the trees at Trout Lake Station, Martin, …
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 ichthyological goodness, thanks to an awesome new (and free) app for your smartphone, “Wisconsin Fish” From trophy muskies to the …
by Emily Hilts While walking along the lakeshore to my first day of work, I spotted a smallmouth bass hanging out in the rocky shallows of Lake Mendota. After watching for a minute, it finally struck me … the water was clear. I could see the bottom! So much for the scummy cesspool I’d imagined. …