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Louis Agassiz

Fishes of Wisconsin: Louis Agassiz & the Mississippi Silvery Minnow

Posted on January 22, 2016

Last year we launched an overly ambitious project here on the blog – post each week about one of the 183 species on the epic “FIshes of Wisconsin” poster. That proved easier said than done, …

Posted in Fish, Fish Fry DayTagged Fish Fry Day, Fishes of Wisconsin, Louis Agassiz, minnow, Mississippi silvery minnow

Fish Fry Day: Three Reasons Fish Matter

Posted on February 28, 2014

We’re sure you’ve already got it circled on the calendar but, just in case, May 24th is World Fish Migration Day. We here at the CFL are partnering with places like The Nature Conservancy and …

Posted in Fish, Fish Fry DayTagged eels, limnology, Louis Agassiz, migratory fish, paddlefish, salmon, World Migratory Fish Day

Muckraking Mendota: “Take this fish and look at it”

Posted on September 13, 2013

Louis Agassiz was an early prominent ichthyologist (someone who studies fish) at Harvard in the mid-1800s. When one of his graduate students, Samuel Scudder, showed up for his first day, Agassiz told him to take …

Posted in Fish, Fish Fry Day, Hasler Lab, Muckraking MendotaTagged bluegill, crappie, Emily Hilts, Lake Mendota, Louis Agassiz, muckraking Mendota, naturalist

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