aquaculture
Fish farmers find new applications for old dairy farming equipment
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As smaller dairy farms are sold to larger operations, fish farmers are finding use for their old manure lagoons.
aquaculture
Million dollar grant funds study of Great Lakes aquaculture
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A million-dollar grant to study aquaculture aims to boost the number of fish farms in the Great Lakes region.
Fish
Bigheaded carp pose big threat, new model suggests
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Bigheaded carp are a big threat to yellow perch, according to a new model that forecasts what would happen over the next several decades if bighead and silver carp made it into Lake Huron’s Saginaw Bay.
Fish
Michigan fish-sorter has global implications
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A $20 million test facility used to find how to keep undesirable fish from moving upstream without using a dam is coming to Michigan’s Boardman River.
Fish
Communicating science with art: how are fish and us alike?
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by Weiting Du
We like fish. And we are like fish. Two Michigan State University scientists recently displayed that similarity through art. Ingo Braasch and Julia Ganz, researchers at the university’s Department of Integrative Biology, compiled videos and photos taken during their research into artwork named “Life in Technicolor: The Art of Fish Development and Evolution.” They showed it at a recent MSU science-art exhibition. The art is a byproduct of differentiating types of cells to better study them.
Wildlife
Fish can hear boat noises and their ears are in trouble
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Researchers found that fish can hear human-created, noises and that their ears are harmed by them.
Wildlife
Fish guts show changes on the Lake Huron menu
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Alewives were once an important food source for top predators and popular gamefish such as salmon and lake trout. But Great Lakes populations of the small fish started to decline in the early 1980s.
Fish
The dose is in the bite: silent effects of parasitic sea lamprey
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The research could have implications for estimating how many lake trout are in the Great Lakes.
Recreation
Tagging fish with #fisHER
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Women who fish have created a new Twitter hashtag to promote awareness of their growing numbers.
Citizen science
Record a prized catch for science without revealing your favorite fishing hole
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Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium has released the Great Lakes Fish Finder App to record fish sightings in the Great Lakes area.