Guest Author: Sarah Martin When I hopped in the car at 6:30am to begin the trek North from Portland, OR to Longview, WA, I had no idea what to expect from the day. I knew I was going to help fish biologists at Abernathy Fish Technology Center with a stream sampling project but, aside from…
Author: Patrick Cooney
Pharmaceuticals for Fish
By Craig Springer, Guest Author The Aquatic Animal Drug Approval Partnership (AADAP) moves medicine from the theoretical to the practical The parallel is too curious to be overlooked. James Henshall, M.D., had his home just a short walk from his work in a Victorian two-story that still stands. There on the grounds at a national…
Plastic trash is an increasing but preventable hazard to fish health
By Sarah Wheeler Look around you. How many plastic items are within your arms reach? There is no question that it is virtually impossible to avoid plastic. It wraps our food, transports our water, and is the building block of countless products. But, less than half of produced plastic ends up in landfills, and alarming…
Killing sea lions to save salmon
By Patrick Cooney I rubbed my eyes, focused, and asked: Is it Sasquatch? A massive beaver pushing a log? Or is it Humphrey the Wayward Whale up to his old shenanigans? After spending much of my life in rivers around the globe, I had never seen such a large hairy beast plying freshwater like I…
Are NOAA Administrators and President Obama giving up on a century of research?
By Ben Kornegay and Patrick Cooney Who warns you about approaching dangerous weather and hurricanes, produces incredible maps and charts of the seas and skies, conducts research for sustainable use and protection of ocean and coastal resources, and is responsible for improving stewardship of the environment? We will tell you who: Scientists with the National…
Earning a PhD: A Family Affair
by Jennifer Cochran Biederman, guest author As a little girl, my dad (a fish biologist and college professor) never read me the classic storybooks – you know, those ones bursting with bright, colorful illustrations and creative story-lines about cute hungry caterpillars or precocious talking cats. Instead, each night, I would curl up at the end…
Fact or Fiction: The 10 Question Fish Quiz!
By Patrick Cooney Do you often fall for farce over fact? Take a quick look at the following fish stories and see if you can discern the real from the ludicrous. Once you have decided on all 10, check out the answers towards the bottom. Leave a note in the comments (or take the poll)…
The Swimming Dead: Videos of Zombie Fish
By Patrick Cooney Like an underwater horror show, I filmed dead fish swimming amongst the living last week in a coastal river of western Washington. Or at least, the zombie fish looked like they were dead. Nowhere is the “Circle of Life” more apparent than in a river during salmon spawning season. Years after leaving the comforts of freshwater…
Topless Mermaid Protestor Misunderstands Scientists
By Patrick Cooney Mermaids misunderstand scientists that are presenting in hotel behind (source). In the 1980s box office hit titled Splash, a scientist nearly goes mad while attempting to advance his cause by exploiting a mermaid. As if making a reference to the movie, but in a complete reversal of roles, a topless mermaid took…
Come see our presentation
If you are going to be at the American Fisheries Society meeting this coming week in Little Rock Arkansas, be sure to see our presentation: Communicating Fisheries Science to an Internet Audience Tuesday morning (10:40am, 09/10/2013) Fulton Room
Finding Nemo lied to your kids, and they will do it again in the sequel: Finding Dory!
By Patrick Cooney The Disney film, Finding Nemo, lied to your kids! Disney would simply argue that they altered reality to create a more entertaining storyline, but read below for the true story, and you tell me which you think is a more entertaining. Disney forced them to hide the truth! How Finding Nemo started:…
What’s So “Great” About the Great White Shark, Anyway?
Don’t you hate it when radio stations play a song that you really like so much that eventually you can’t stand to hear it anymore? What may have been a legitimately great song gets over-played to the point that its quality becomes diminished somehow. That’s how I feel when it comes to Shark Week and…
Conference Review: Deep-Sea Fish Biology 2013
By Patrick Cooney In a rare occurrence, the early July sun shone brightly for a week on the Scottish landscape that is so typically shrouded in dark clouds and rain. In a similarly bright and rare occurrence, nearly 100 of the world’s leading deep-sea fish researchers convened at the University of Glasgow, Scotland for a…
Young Anglers Team with Scientists
By Patrick Cooney Flame azalea blooms blanketed the opposite river bank in vibrant orange while long morning shadows still harbored temperatures that required a warm beverage to chase away the chills of the Appalachian Mountains. A gaggle of kids, warm with excitement, flanked the close shoreline like a battalion ready to face its adversary. The…
Happy 4th of July from The Fisheries Blog!
We here at The Fisheries Blog are taking a week off—our summer vacation! We’ll be back with new content next week, but to all our readers: Enjoy the holiday week and we’ll see you soon! And for those who just need something to read, here’s a short, light read that will make you smile. (Source)…
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