What are snot otters, why do we want them around, and how are we working to help them? Find out when Stone Lab’s 2018 Guest Lecture Series continues this evening, Thursday, June 21. Continue reading
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Watch: What people mean to water mean to fish
CFAES scientist Suzanne Gray explains her research connecting water quality, aquatic diversity and human activities in the video above. It’s her lightning-round talk (6:36) from CFAES’s Annual Research Conference. How do fish — from bluegills in the Scioto River, to walleyes in western Lake Erie, to cichlids in the Nile River basin — respond to rapid changes in their water caused by people?
Now THAT sounds intriguing
Hanping Wang, director of CFAES’s Ohio Aquaculture Research and Development Integration Program, has succeeded in raising faster-growing fish — yellow perch and bluegills — “by artificially mating them in a not so typical way.” Ultimately, the breakthrough should have benefits to keeping Ohio fish farmers profitable, producing healthy protein for people and preventing overfishing of wild fish for food. It’s one of our CFAES Stories.
If you teach a person about fish
… you feed them for a lifetime. Congratulations to CFAES’s Suzanne Gray, assistant professor of aquatic physiological ecology, School of Environment and Natural Resources, who today was named a recipient of Ohio State’s top honor for teaching. Gray is the fourth from the left.
What a #greatday @CFAES_OSU @ENRAlumni @OSUEnvironment surprising @graysm25 with @OhioState Distinguished Teaching Award in her classroom. #CFAESproud pic.twitter.com/Hfh5OgP6sM
— Cathann Kress (@cathannkress) March 1, 2018
This talk is rec’d for fish fans
Florida International University’s Jennifer Rehage presents “Understanding the Dynamics and Sustainability of Recreational Fisheries: Patterns, Drivers, Space and Time in Bonefish (Albula vulpes) in South Florida” from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Feb. 8 in 164 Howlett Hall, 2001 Fyffe Road, on Ohio State’s Columbus campus. Learn more.
Her talk is part of a seminar series hosted by CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources.
For background, read Global FlyFisher’s quick treatise on bonefish biology. (Photo: A totally cool-looking bonefish, iStock.)
Winter fish kills in ponds revisited
CFAES’s Eugene Braig takes a deeper look at keeping your pond (and the fish that live in it) sustainable.
Pond fish hurting under ice? What you can do
Long periods of ice and snow on a pond are hard on the bass, bluegills and other fish swimming below, sometimes even killing them. We revisit a winter 2015 article, featuring CFAES Aquatic Ecosystems Program Director Eugene Braig, that shares details — and what you can do.
Hear latest on Lake Erie’s fish populations on Thursday night at Stone Lab
Stone Lab’s weekly summer guest lecture series wraps up at 7 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 3, with a featured talk by Janice Kerns of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ Fairport Harbor Fisheries Research Unit and a research brief by Elizabeth Marschall of Ohio State’s Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology. Continue reading
Hooked on aquaponics
Matthew Smith, aquaculture specialist with CFAES’s outreach arm, OSU Extension, is one of the scheduled speakers at the Ohio Aquaculture Association’s March 10 Aquaponics Workshop in Columbus. (Image: Rainbow trout, iStock.)
Care for your pond (and what’s in and around it)
Eugene Braig, aquatic ecosystems program director in CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources, presents a free program on managing ponds on March 16 in northeast Ohio. Sign up by March 13.