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Fish news and info I found

Started by Guest_FirstChAoS_* , Jun 27 2012 02:33 AM

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#1 Guest_FirstChAoS_*

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Posted 27 June 2012 - 02:33 AM

I found a few news and articles on native fish lately I was debating posting, I decided to link them all in one post.

Scientist caught a giant bull shark and outfitted it with an ID tag

http://www.grindtv.c...ive bull shark/

Bow fisherman in texas catches and eats a possible record alligator gar. I am sad to see this one go, I have no issue with fishing. Just true giant fish are rare these days and I think the biggest of them should get released to breed. (releasing not possible with a bow, I know)

http://www.grindtv.c... alligator gar/

This one is a couple years old but after years of absence sauger are rediscovered in Lake Champlain

http://www.mychampla...champlain-1980s

Finally this isn't a news item but I found a fish listing for NH's coastal Lamprey River in a target fish community article. Fish info for rivers in my state are rare so I am always glad to find it.

http://des.nh.gov/or...resentation.pdf

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#2 Guest_Usil_*

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Posted 27 June 2012 - 09:40 AM

Very interesting. Thanks for the post.

Usil

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#3 Guest_FirstChAoS_*

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Posted 28 June 2012 - 10:28 AM

I just found another article on record sockeye salmon returns http://news.yahoo.co...-214721088.html

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#4 Guest_FirstChAoS_*

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Posted 29 September 2012 - 10:01 PM

I found some more fish news

The October 2012 Scientific American has an article on shifting food webs due to species alterations and how to predict them, and mentions an experiment done by putting bass in a pond without them to see how they alter the species mix.

1000 pound sturgeon caught in British Columbia/ If you ever wonder why people mistake sturgeons for monsters (I have heard of at least 3 cases of it in different water bodies) this fish gives you a good idea why. http://www.grindtv.c... anglers in bc/

I decided not to post a link to an article on the practical joke of a man lifting a stingray up to some girls backs for a photo as it didn't seem NEWS worthy.

Edited by FirstChAoS, 29 September 2012 - 10:02 PM.

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#5 Guest_EricaWieser_*

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Posted 29 September 2012 - 10:43 PM

Bow fisherman in texas catches and eats a possible record alligator gar. I am sad to see this one go, I have no issue with fishing. Just true giant fish are rare these days and I think the biggest of them should get released to breed. (releasing not possible with a bow, I know)

http://www.grindtv.c... alligator gar/

I bet she was full of eggs and in the middle of spawning, too

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#6 Guest_rjmtx_*

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Posted 30 September 2012 - 08:16 PM

I bet she was full of eggs and in the middle of spawning, too

Yeah, but another way to look at it is that she has spawned quite a few times before being killed. I don't know about gar, but some fish are less successful breeding once they reach a certain size.

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#7 Guest_FirstChAoS_*

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Posted 06 October 2012 - 08:19 AM

A few more bits of fish news.

A new global warming threat, warmer seas means less oxygen leading to smaller fish http://weather.yahoo...-174716882.html

New species of mosquitofish found with distinctive hooked reproductive parts http://news.yahoo.co...-160152632.html

I know this isn't a fishing forum, but someone brought fishing to a new level of laziness as he caught a fish from his living room. http://www.grindtv.c... football game/

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#8 Guest_FirstChAoS_*

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Posted 14 October 2012 - 10:11 PM

A dead oarfish washed up on shore in mexico, which ended up news as the species is large and rarely seen. http://www.grindtv.c...an lucas beach/

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#9 Guest_mywan_*

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Posted 14 October 2012 - 11:19 PM

I bet she was full of eggs and in the middle of spawning, too

I grew up in an area with lots of gar. I wouldn't say they were by any means rare enough to be concerned about them population wise. They weren't even traditionally a usual target for fishermen. Though, apparently, in recent years the popularity of gar fishing has greatly increase. Texas has, since 2009, imposed a 1 gar per day limit.

I know precisely where, in east Texas, you can go to easily net some smaller gar that overflow from a lake into a very small washout. Seen some in there somewhat exceeding 3 feet, but mostly in the 8 to 18 inch range. In many small lakes in the area very near dark was the best time to see them in open water rolling near the surface.

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#10 Guest_FirstChAoS_*

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Posted 01 November 2012 - 10:04 PM

In the November 2012 Scientific american, Their was a small single column article on page 20 on the rapid rate at which North American fish are going extinct.

Salmon cross a flooded road and face trouble with dogs.
http://news.yahoo.co...-174532713.html

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#11 Guest_FirstChAoS_*

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Posted 15 February 2013 - 01:22 PM

Anti-anxiety medicing make perch antisocial, Hey, at least their not full of anxiety.

Though this study was done of european perch, I posted it here in case yellow perch may be similarly affected by medicine in the water as they are closely related.

http://news.yahoo.co...-212928534.html

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#12 Michael Wolfe

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Posted 15 February 2013 - 02:07 PM

...the fish became more antisocial... likely putting themselves at greater risk of predation... also ate more quickly... venturing out into open areas..."But the exposed fish didn't care,"
This makes me wonder about Irate Mormon...!!!
On a serious note, its interesting to think about purposely dosing a aquarium to make hard to feed fish "more comfortable".

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin

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#13 Guest_EricaWieser_*

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Posted 15 February 2013 - 02:15 PM

...the fish became more antisocial... likely putting themselves at greater risk of predation... also ate more quickly... venturing out into open areas..."But the exposed fish didn't care,"
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On a serious note, its interesting to think about purposely dosing a aquarium to make hard to feed fish "more comfortable".

The phenylalanine that is an ingredient in diet soda pops is a known antidepressant. You could try adding some diet pop regularly to a fish tank with some [expendable] shy native fish in it and see if they travel out into open areas more. It is hard to quantify behavior, though.

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#14 Guest_Skipjack_*

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Posted 15 February 2013 - 02:20 PM

Really? Is this an actual conversation. Surely a sign of the times, prescribe antidepressants to fish? I will be back after I vomit.

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#15 Guest_EricaWieser_*

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Posted 15 February 2013 - 02:42 PM

Really? Is this an actual conversation. Surely a sign of the times, prescribe antidepressants to fish? I will be back after I vomit.

lol sorry
I just love experiments XD

Oh, and, try caffeine free diet pop if you try it. Caffeine is poisonous to most animals. Humans are sort of weird in that we can tolerate it.

Edited by EricaWieser, 15 February 2013 - 02:44 PM.

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#16 Guest_don212_*

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Posted 16 February 2013 - 06:31 PM

went snorkeling at blue springs state park in volusia cty fl. last year water is crystal clear, the gar are bigger than the gators.

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#17 Guest_Auban_*

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Posted 19 February 2013 - 07:17 AM

on the antidepressants, i wonder if exposing some gilbertis to them would make the males show their colors more? or not at all... either way, if it had that affect, it would probably make them easier to select for color. just dose all the males with antidepressants and pick the most colorful, since they wouldnt be acting naturally. hmm.. i know of some herbal antidpressants...

i smell an experiment coming lol

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#18 Guest_Skipjack_*

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Posted 20 February 2013 - 09:19 PM

Heck, dose them with some smack. Reckon they will show their happy colors. This is all wrong, wrong, wrong.

Anyway as wrong as it is, Ginko biloba increases blood flow, and may make those colors come out, or it may just kill them. It also increases serotonin in humans.

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#19 Guest_rjmtx_*

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Posted 21 February 2013 - 08:46 AM

THere was a "King of the Hill" about that. Bass love crack!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0620252/

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#20 Guest_Kanus_*

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Posted 21 February 2013 - 11:45 AM

I've actually been wondering if Bruce has come up with the proper dosage and synthesis techniques for 11-ketotestosterone usage in aquaria. I think there would be a small dedicated market (especially within NANFA) for a powder that could be added to our tanks to cause breeding coloration on-demand. Maybe have a bottle with before and after pictures of a Tennessee shiner, and call the product Silver-No-More. Eh, Bruce?