Fish

Eastern Oregon Cattle Grazing Injunction

June 19, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Court orders cattle grazing to temporarily stop in Oregon’s eastern Malheur National Forest. The measure is to help protect native trout species (including steelhead).

Hooks Pain Cruelty – Survey of Anglers’ Attitudes

May 2, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

A survey for anglers concerning pain and cruelty in fishing.

Fish Pain – Here We Go Again

April 30, 2009 ⋅ 10 comments

New research appears to liken a fish’s pain to a human’s pain.

Artist – Fish Carver – Spencer Alexander

April 17, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

Spencer Alexander is an artist specializing in fish carvings. Get information about, and see some of, his work.

Fish Science – Evolution, Extinction and Stocking

March 26, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Three new fishy articles from Science Daily: Evolution Of Fins And Limbs Linked With That Of Gills ScienceDaily (Mar. 25, 2009) – The genetic toolkit that animals use to build fins and limbs is the same genetic toolkit that controls the development of part of the gill skeleton in sharks, according to a new study. [...]

Fish Science to Think About

March 18, 2009 ⋅ 7 comments

A couple of recent science articles from Science Daily: Killing Young Fish Results In Population Growth, Study Finds If you kill more fish, the total population of the species declines. However, kill only small, young fish, the total number of small, young fish increases. This seemingly paradoxical conclusion has far reaching implications for the sustainable [...]

Exterminating Cutthroat – Part 3

November 15, 2008 ⋅ 5 comments

Part 3 of more than 3. Part 2 is found here and should be read before part 3. Another take on the utilitarian/anthropocentric view is that all life depends upon each other in a great “web of life,” and the extinction of any one species affects every other species in one way or another, including [...]

Exterminating Cutthroat – Part 2

November 6, 2008 ⋅ 18 comments

Part 2 of more than 3. Part 1 is found here. It’s not mandatory to read, but it might give a little background. This is going to be “Talk Me Down” time. I plan on presenting different reasons why we should allow the extinction of cutthroat. I want you to talk me down (or agree, [...]

Exterminating Cutthroat – Sneak Peak – The Tease

October 30, 2008 ⋅ 11 comments

Part 1 of a (probably) 3 part post. This is “The Tease” (hopefully something to get the blood boiling flowing). Who needs them? Cutthroat, that is. Specifically, Bonneville cutthroat—Oncorhynchus clarki utah. Who needs another subspecies of a fairly healthy species of trout? Really, I truly mean that. Are they needed on planet earth? How about [...]

Tagged Fish – They Aren’t Playing Hide and Seek

October 8, 2008 ⋅ 9 comments

During my fishing two weeks ago I caught a tagged fish. Out of curiosity I emailed the director of the National Aquatic Monitoring Center (he lives and works in my hometown) to see if he knew what the tag was about. He sent my email on to Gary Thiede, a fishery biologist at our local [...]

USFWS – New Magazine – “Eddies”

June 24, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The US Fish and Wildlife Services has a new fish magazine, Eddies, to tout their successes (as they perceive them). A lot of the magazine is devoted to management issues, especially regarding hatcheries. I would like to see more dealing with conserving habitat instead of just hatchery issues. I found the brief essays on Gila [...]

Science Proves: Fish More – Work Less

June 13, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Most excellent news! You now have a medical excuse to take more days off work and go fishing instead. New research shows that psychosocial stress at work increases the chance for Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). Increasing the intake of oily fish decreases the risk of RA. This is a triple whammy folks: there is now a [...]

The Fishing/Science Connection

June 7, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I haven’t done a fishing and science connection since the post about lying, so I thought I’d do several rolled into one. Beer This doesn’t apply to me, but I know it’s important to a lot of fishermen, so I thought I’d throw this in first as an attention grabber. (But I do have a [...]