Happy Fish Fry Day! Just like many Wisconsin restaurants, we’ve got fish on the menu today. The special? Suckers with a side of steelhead. Watch as CFL graduate student, John Rodstrom, and post-doc, Allison Moody, …
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Fish Fry Day: “FishWerks,” New App to Optimize Fish Barrier Removal
Pretend for a moment that you’re a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources scientist tasked with connecting migratory Great Lakes fish to upstream habitats. Let’s say the stream you’re working on has two dams and five impassable road …
Fish Fry Day: Shad, Like Ships, Use Locks to Get Upstream
Happy Fish Fry Day, when, like any good Wisconsin restaurant, we put fish on the menu. Today’s post is shared with permission from The Nature Conservancy‘s “Cool Green Science” blog. Thanks, TNC! New Research Makes …
Field Samples: Restoring the Flow for Great Lakes’ Migratory Fishes
Field Samples is a weekly Q&A asking researchers what they’ve been up to and what they’ve learned. Today, post doctoral researcher, Allison Moody, talks dams, road culverts and getting migratory fish moving again. Who are you, where …
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, …
Road Block: Study Maps Stream Barriers in Great Lakes Basin
Over the last several years, state agencies and environmental non-profit organizations have targeted dam removal as a way to quickly improve the health of aquatic ecosystems. Dams keep migratory fish from swimming upriver to spawn, …