Posts for tag "fish"
Angler-Driven Citizen Science: Monitoring Black Bass Populations in Arkansas
In Arkansas, the rugged terrain of the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains dominates the north and west, eventually yielding to the vast, fertile flatlands of the Mississippi River Delta to the east. Hundreds of reservoirs and lakes punctuate...
- Posted August 4, 2025
Bringing Fish Back: Reviving Britain’s Freshwater Habitats with the Wild Trout Trust
Freshwater covers less than 1% of the Earth’s surface but has an outsized impact on global ecosystems, supporting more than 10% of all known species, reports the World Wildlife Fund. Freshwater environments such as rivers and wetlands...
- Posted February 3, 2025
Reintroducing Historically Native Fish in America’s Largest Wilderness
Among the dozens of publicly protected national parks, hundreds of wilderness areas, and thousands of state parks in the contiguous U.S., none are larger than the Adirondack Park, a 6 million-acre wilderness area that spreads across upstate...
- Posted September 16, 2024
Gar-Bage Fish No More. It’s Time to Respect Gar
Gar, long considered a trash fish, are newly valued by science and fishermen around the country.
- Posted January 27, 2021
Custom, Student-Designed Underwater Camera Mounts Help Capture Fish Behavior
Shedd Aquarium and Northwestern Engineering students team up to find innovative new tech for studying animal behavior in the wild.
- Posted February 22, 2019
From Butterflies to Birds: Five Rivers MetroParks Fauna Get Thorough Environmental Monitoring
Butterflies, deer, turtles, salamanders, frogs, fish and birds are some of the many species being monitored at Five Rivers MetroParks.
- Posted September 14, 2018
Monitoring for Biodiversity with 1st Commercial eDNA Service in the UK
A commercial eDNA kit enables almost anyone, including citizen scientists, to monitor even rare aquatic species in a less intrusive, more effective way.
- Posted August 17, 2018
