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Is Tiny Find in Lake Mendota a Silver Lining for a Declining Species?

Posted on September 20, 2021

Earlier this summer, Alice Ogden-Nussbaum was checking on a gill net she had set a day earlier in Lake Mendota’s deepest waters. As she rolled the curtain of net up out of the lake, a …

Posted in Fish, Learn Your Lakes, LTERTagged cisco, lake herring, Lake Mendota, lter, Madison fishing, Wisconsin fishes

Learn Your Lakes: Fish on the Move

Posted on April 13, 2020

Ah, it’s mid-April in Wisconsin and, right on cue, snow popped back up in the forecast and temperatures this week are going to struggle to get above freezing. Spring, it seems, is on hold for …

Posted in Fish, Learn Your LakesTagged fish migration, Learn Your Lakes, northern pike, suckers, walleye, Wisconsin fishes

Fish Fry Day: “Save Yourselves!” Fish Under Attack Sound The Alarm to Others

Posted on March 10, 2017

Happy Fish Fry Day folks! You’ll find perch and walleye specials at our fair state’s eateries today, but here on the blog we’ve got a tiny little martyr on the menu – the blacknose shiner. …

Posted in Fish, Fish Fry DayTagged blacknose shiner, fish alarm cues, Fish Fry Day, Virginia Hughes, Wisconsin fishes

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