Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) just can’t catch a break. Like their Pacific counterparts, Atlantic salmon are anadromous, meaning they live in the ocean as adults, but swim upriver to spawn. Despite having the evolutionary advantage of being able to spawn more than once in their…
I’ve spent the last week at the 141st Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, where nearly 4,000 fish nerds from the worlds of academia, management, and even art descended on Seattle for four days of talks, socials, interesting conversation over beer. It was good…
It’s day 2 of JMIH/AES, and, as usual, there were too many great talks for me to go through them all. Make sure to check WhySharksMatter and labroides on Twitter to fill in some of the gaps, and if anyone else is reading this and…
The past few posts have been quick short-form recaps of what’s been going on that day. Now that I’m back in town (after we called the trip early due to weather) I finally have a chance to upload the pictures from the trip and give…
Animal Planet has an article up called the Top 10 Most Endangered Fish Species, which is a pretty good light read and gets most of its facts straight. It gets kudos for having some species that don’t normally make this sort of list, such as…
Tip o’ the hat to Mike L for this sweet find. The manuscripts and plates from the Challenger expedition are available in their entirety online. This is a huge boon for ocean nerds, and I intend to spend considerable time going over it once I…
One of the most contentious topics on modern fisheries management and elasmobranch ecology has been the supposed “explosion” of skates and dogfish in Georges Bank. The fact that this coincided with the crash in commercially important groundfish populations (cod, haddock, flounder, and other delicious bottom-dwellers)…
After hanging out in port for a couple days, the Bigelow is now ship-shape (I will never apologize for puns) and spent yesterday steaming down to the first sample sites off of New Jersey. Being on the midnight-noon watch, I was on hand when we…