Posts for tag "featured"
Making Dams in California Fish-Friendly
Salmon and other native fish across California are threatened by inhospitable streamflows altered by some of the states thousands of dams. The controversial work of getting flows right for fish can't begin until managers know which dams...
- Posted August 19, 2024
Improving Iowa Lake Conditions with Restoration Program
Amid the sprawling farm fields that rank Iowa as among the most human-modified landscapes in the world, the state's lake restoration program is among the best in the nation at improving water quality creating more opportunities for...
- Posted July 8, 2024
Shark Conservation in South Florida: Practices and Impacts
When Captain Chris Johnson of SeaSquared Charters takes his clients to his honey hole of a calm, grassy flat somewhere in the Florida Keys, they'll catch as many as 16 sharks in a four-hour trip. Despite the...
- Posted May 20, 2024
Using Fish Tags to Inform Habitat Restoration in the Huron-Erie Corridor
Researchers and resource departments utilize fish tags as a means of improving current fish and habitat management strategies.
- Posted April 29, 2024
Salmon Shifting Migration Habits Due to Climate Change
Migratory fish like salmon have long been traveling from their freshwater birth waters to the ocean and then returning to these lakes to spawn later in life. Unfortunately, recent changes in the climate have impacted these migration...
- Posted April 15, 2024
Considerations for Fish Stocking
Many fisheries engage in fish stocking, and the strategies they use can significantly influence the effectiveness of these efforts.
- Posted April 1, 2024
Predation Tags: Innovative Fish Tracking
Fish tagging has been a common practice for years, usually helping researchers track the movement of fish through a fishery or the return of migratory fish. While there are many different kinds of fish tags, the most...
- Posted March 11, 2024
Vegetation Biodiversity and Dissolved Oxygen in Aquatic Systems
Aquatic vegetation is important to ecosystems, but overgrowth is also tied to low-light conditions and hypoxia.
- Posted December 18, 2023
Smallmouth Bass Thriving After Round Goby Invasion in the Great Lakes
A review of 20 years of data shows that smallmouth bass caught in Lake Erie and Lake Ontario have gotten heavier since round goby invaded.
- Posted December 11, 2023
How Fishing Tournaments Impact Fisheries
Lake Champlain has been a popular bass fishing spot for some time, made so by its size, surrounding scenery and abundant fish habitat, especially in its northern end. The lake’s expansive tributaries also draw in anglers who...
- Posted December 4, 2023
Using Models to Prepare the Great Lakes Fishery for Climate Change
Like other lake regions across the world, the Laurentian Great Lakes are facing changes as a result of climate change. In particular, the Great Lakes Fishery has been hit hard—impacting habitat suitability, fish health, water temperature, seasonal...
- Posted November 27, 2023
Florida Redfish Population Look Healthier Decades After Commercial Ban
A new study shows the redfish population in some Florida waters look healthier decades after the 1987 commercial ban.
- Posted November 20, 2023
Impacts of Habitat Loss in the Georgian Bay Muskie Fishery
The Georgian Bay is infamous for its muskie fishery--however, the bay is not safe from environmental stressors and system decline.
- Posted November 13, 2023
Undersized Muskie in the Detroit River: How a Viral Video Exposed a Troubling Trend
In 2014, two muskie anglers caught another angler catching and killing an undersized Muskie on the Detroit River.
- Posted November 6, 2023
Ecosystem Service Map Directs Anglers to Mountains Streams
In 2014, researchers conducted a regional study to map the quality, capacity and demand of anglers in several freshwater sources in NC and VA.
- Posted October 23, 2023
Study: Impacts of Tiger Muskie on Stocked Salmonid Populations
Tiger muskies are popular with anglers as a highly sought-after trophy fish and have been thought to serve as protectors to hatchery fish.
- Posted October 16, 2023
Study: Forested Watersheds Make More Fish Food
A 2014 study in Daisy Lake looks at the effects of forested watersheds on lake fish as they rely on the tree line for food.
- Posted October 2, 2023
Study Backs Cheaper and More Efficient Habitat Solutions for Coho Salmon
A 2014 study supports an emerging method to improve habitat conditions for salmon more quickly and cheaply than traditional projects.
- Posted July 24, 2023
Unassessed Waters Initiative Finds Trout in Overlooked Streams
Pennsylvania's Unassessed Waters Initiative finds trout in overlooked streams with the help of local biologists and Trout Unlimited crews.
- Posted July 3, 2023
Understanding Snook Production in the Everglades
While snook are considered ecologically significant and a prized catch, much is still unknown about the species production in the Everglades.
- Posted June 26, 2023
