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 sauger.
Sauger’s part of the Percidae (perch) family which includes the closely-related, very-similar looking, + often more-talked-about cousin: the walleye #25DaysofFishmas pic.twitter.com/PLr1TKQAbd
– Katherine O’Reilly (@DrKatfish) December 15, 2017
Read O’Reilly’s thread on Twitter and learn all about today’s fish. Follow along with the #25DaysofFishmas.