Columbus Dispatch, Feb. 6, 2022; Ohio State research cited
Mirage News, Feb. 3, 2022; Ohio State researchers included
Cleveland.com, Jan. 30; featuring Tory Gabriel, fisheries educator, Ohio Sea Grant
The new Great Lakes Fresh Fish Finder website, according to our CFAES colleagues at Ohio Sea Grant in their monthly email newsletter, “features businesses where consumers can buy wild-caught and farmed fish and shellfish to eat, for stocking ponds, to use as bait and for ornamental purposes.” Learn more and visit the site.
If you fish for steelhead in a Lake Erie tributary, or walleye in Lake Erie, think of CFAES alumnus Kevin Kayle (MS ’86 Natural Resources, BS ’83 Fisheries and Wildlife Management). Here’s why.
Suzanne Gray’s students net benefits from her teaching, and now the CFAES associate professor—her focus is aquatic physiological ecology—has received another award for it.
Read the story. (Photo by Ken Chamberlain, CFAES, at the Olentangy River in Columbus, 2014.)
Registration is open for Ohio Sea Grant’s Science and Outdoor Writers Workshop, set to be held virtually Oct. 28–29, 1–3 p.m. both days. Check out the topics and speakers:
Continue reading Workshop for writers who write on Lake Erie
Want some good cold-weather reading? Ohio State’s Ohio Sea Grant program offers a 160-page PDF e-book called Ohio Field Guide to Aquatic Invasive Species, with color photos for identifying aquatic invasive species and tips for preventing their introduction and spread. Featured are fish, plants, algae, mussels, crustaceans and others, including bighead carp, silver carp, didymo (an alga also called “rock snot”), fishhook waterflea, red swamp crayfish and Eurasian watermilfoil, to name just a few.
Ohio Sea Grant Specialist Tory Gabriel and Eugene Braig, CFAES aquatic ecosystems program director, helped produce the guide, whose introduction says, “Identifying and preventing the introduction and spread of aquatic invasive species are the keys to averting long-term ecosystem damage and ensuring the highest probability of effective control.”
Stone Lab’s 2018 summer guest lecture series wraps up at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 2, with “Fish Management in the 21st Century” by Rich Carter, executive administrator of the Fish Management Group in the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ Division of Wildlife; and a research brief called “Invasive Species Management and Research: Are We Working at the Same Scales?” by University of Toledo ecology professor Jonathan Bossenbroek.
Admission is free and open to the public. Learn more about the program and how to attend. You also can watch online.
Stone Lab, part of CFAES, is located at Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie. (Photo: Stone Lab Lake Erie sport fishing workshop, 2016, Tory Gabriel, Ohio Sea Grant, via Flickr.)
“Simply moving across the slick, gloopy wetlands was difficult.”
So says an article about how Ohio Sea Grant- and CFAES-affiliated researchers are helping The Nature Conservancy to (1) improve water quality and (2) give homes to fish and wildlife by restoring a large marshland near Lake Erie. (Photo: iStock.)
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.