Solomon David spoke at the CFL last week about the November migrations of the Great Lakes populations of whitefish. We started thinking about ways to spread the message that keeping fish “on the move” is …
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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 …
Fish Fry Day Video: Walleye on the Run
While our post doctoral researcher, Solomon David, prefers more primitive fishes, like the northern pike he was recently catching, tagging and studying during their annual spring migration run, he also stumbled across (okay, waded into) …
Spring Has Sprung in Wisconsin’s Waters
It’s official! Not even highs in the low 40’s and a couple of overnight snow showers could stop it – spring has arrived in Madison. According to the Wisconsin state climatologist, Lyle Anderson (sorry, John …
Fish Fry Day: Whitefish Runs Return to Wisconsin Rivers
Last week, an excellent article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel covered some great news – lake whitefish are migrating inland to spawn and, in many cases, fish were running up into tributaries where they hadn’t …
Fish [Black] Fry Day Video: “FIsh-nados” Lurk Off Chicago Shoreline
With apologies to the Syfy network and its outstanding ability to combine species into preposterous science fiction specials, we’re showcasing these videos our post doc, Solomon David, recently took with colleagues from the Shedd Aquarium …
Fish Fry Day Goes Primitive
Happy Fish Fry Day, Folks! It’s the day when we (sometimes!) feature fish on the blog and any restaurant worth its salt features fish on the menu here in Wisconsin. Today we’re just going to …
Fish Fry Day: Longnose Gar
It’s that time of week again. Time for fried fishes of all sorts to pop up on Wisconsin menus and time for us here at the blog to feature a new fish for “Fish Fry …