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Tag: The Fisheries Blog

Guest post: Hot take on our planet – freshwater biodiversity

Our friends at the Fisheries Blog do good work – you should check them out. Here’s a post from past CFL postdoc, Solomon David, on how nature documentaries seem to ignore freshwater systems and why they should be paying more attention. by Solomon David – Big-budget nature documentaries are chronically ignoring freshwater biodiversity relative to …

Guest Post: Pet Fish or Alien Invader?

If you aren’t following our friends at The Fisheries Blog, you should be. They post all kinds of fascinating science on the fishes of the world – like this recent post from our former post doc, Solomon David. Enjoy!   By Solomon David – (originally posted at The Fisheries Blog, January 21, 2019)  Although dogs and …

Guest Post: Are Fish “Bad Moms”?

We know we missed MOther’s Day (on the blog, NOT in real life, thank goodness) but our friends at The Fisheries Blog were on it. Enjoy this entry from Dana Sackett, who asks “Are fish bad Moms?” By Dana Sackett The lives of fish cannot technically be compared to the lives and pressures placed on …

Guest Post: How Do Fish Handle Cold Water?

Each winter people ask us what, exactly, is everything doing down under that ice? As those ice fishing shanties dotting the frozen surface of our lakes attest, fish are still active. So how, exactly, do fish get through winter? Brandon Peoples, one of our friends over at The Fisheries Blog recently answered the question of …

A Cocktail of Contaminants: Moving Away From Single Chemical Science

Efforts to relax environmental regulations and weaken wetland protections have been in the news a lot in Wisconsin recently, which made the post we just read from The Fisheries Blog even more relevant. What’s in our water? The answer is a whole lot of things. The real question is what they all do when they …