Great Lakes researcher Katie O’Reilly (@DrKatFish on Twitter), is featuring a fish every day in December. Image: Katie O’Reilly
Great Lakes researcher Katie O’Reilly created a new holiday celebrated on Twitter with the hashtag “#25DaysofFishmas.” It’s a hat’s off to Great Lakes fish — a group of animals that O’Reilly said are often out of sight and out of mind.
Today’s fish? The gizzard shad.
❄️It’s a blizzard! ❄️ A blizzard of gizzard (shad), that is! Meet Dorosoma cepedianum, the gizzard shad #GreatLakes #25DaysofFishmas pic.twitter.com/54a12g8VEE
– Katherine O’Reilly (@DrKatfish) December 13, 2017
Read O’Reilly’s thread on Twitter and learn all about today’s fish. Follow along with the #25DaysofFishmas.