by Matt Miller, The Nature Conservancy – If you’re thinking about how fisheries feed people around the globe, chances are you start picturing oceans. The images of saltwater commercial fishing are everywhere around us: on popular cable television shows, on the supermarket shelf, even on conservation blogs like this one. But what about freshwater fisheries? …
Until recently, when ecologists wanted to study aquatic ecosystems at a large spatial scale, they had to rely on maps that weren’t exactly fine-tuned. In fact, these satellite-generated maps were assembled from plot points of 25 square kilometers. To get a sense of that scale, says Etienne Fluet-Chouinard, such a map would combine all of the …
Happy Fish Fry Day folks! Before you tune out for the rest of the day and dream of delicious fried fillets of your favorite fish, we’d like to introduce you to a brand-new website all about the incredible journeys many fish make to feed and breed and survive. Called “Fish On the Run,” the site …
The following is from The Nature Conservancy’s “Cool Green Science” blog on a study co-led by new CFL post-doc, Peter Lisi. By Matt Miller, senior science writer, TNC — A shrew, hunting insects along a stream bank, slips into the icy water. It swims frantically to reach shore, using all its energy to stay afloat. …
When the doors to Chicago’s world-famous Shedd Aquarium opened the Saturday before Memorial Day, Center for Limnology researchers were scrambling to get last-second details in place. Thousands of “fish passports,” a half dozen posters and two enormous fish-researcher cut-outs were at the ready. It was May 24th, World Fish Migration Day. By the day’s end …
by Stephanie Januchowski-Hartley “What kind of fish might migrate up rivers in your region?” I asked Junior School students at Erskine Stewart’s Melville (ESMS) in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. “Salmon”, said one. “Trout”, offered another. “Yes, those are both migratory fishes,” I responded. “But, what about eels?” “No way! Eels?” I was inspired to visit ESMS …
by Aaron Koning “At the next site we’ll have to be careful to avoid the elephants” warned my field assistant, Witu. His words would have struck me more soundly if I hadn’t come across the two Elaphas along the banks of the Ngao River while conducting snorkel surveys a day earlier. The two captive individuals …
Readers of this blog may already be aware that Pete McIntyre and a handful of his staff and students are undertaking a big research project in Tanzania. Now a new interactive website is in the works that will let folks at home follow along as the team plies the waters of Africa’s gigantic Lake Tanganyika. …