On Saturday, April 21st, Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium welcomed 9,256 visitors to its sprawling campus along Lake Michigan’s shoreline. 1225 of the youngest visitors grabbed “passports” to learn more about the migratory fishes on display for …
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Celebrating World Fish Migration Day at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium
This Saturday, April 21st, is World Fish Migration Day – a day to celebrate the incredible journeys that fishes undertake each year to spawn and continue their species’ existence. World Fish Migration Day is “a one …
CFL at Shedd Aquarium: World Fish Migration Day, May 21st!
This coming Saturday is World Fish Migration Day and, from 10am to 4pm, visitors who come to Chicago’s famed Shedd Aquarium will get more than just the usual stunning displays of amazing aquatic life – …
Field Samples: Trying to Predict Ecosystem Changes Before They Occur
Field Samples is a weekly Q&A asking researchers what they’ve been up to and what they’ve learned. Today, post-doctoral researcher, Eric Larson, from Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium, talks about better managing our resources by trying to predict ecosystem changes …
Fish Fry Day: Great Lakes Fisheries
Happy Fish Fry Day! This week, we’re bringing you an excellent roundtable discussion about Great Lakes fisheries via the program, “Great Lakes Now Connect.” If you’ve ever wondered about the past, present or future of …
Fish Fry Day: Ancient Fish, Windy City
Last month, Illinois Department of Natural Resources fisheries biologists on a routine patrol of the North Shore Channel, a straight as an arrow, concrete-lined tributary of the Chicago River, made a surprising find. They gave …
Fish Fry Day Video: An Encounter with a Prehistoric Fish
Followers of this blog will know that Soloman David, the post-doctoral researcher we share with the Shedd Aquarium, is an unapologetic lover of prehistoric fish and a whiz with a GoPro camera. For this Friday, …
CFL at the Shedd: 10,000+ “Migrate” to Aquarium on World Fish Migration Day
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 …
Video: (Migratory) Fish Fry Day – Spawning Suckers
Tomorrow is World Fish Migration Day! We’ll help host activity stations at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium, site of just one of 270 events around the globe celebrating the day. Below is an amazing underwater video taken …
CFL at the Shedd Aquarium: World Fish Migration Day, May 24th!
At the break of dawn this Saturday, May 24th, Center for Limnology researchers and your trusty blogger will hit the road for Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium. Once there, we will help Shedd researchers and volunteers set …