University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tag: threatened fishes

“Fishes of Wisconsin” Challenge: A Tale of Two Sunfishes

It’s week 4 of the “Fishes of Wisconsin” challenge and we’ve got some drama unfolding right on the poster as, juxtaposed side-by-side are two species of sunfish with nearly polar-opposite trajectories. The first is also the first threatened species we’ve encountered on this Quixotic tilt at cataloging the state’s fish species. It is called the …