Fish farming in the state has traditionally centered on raising bait and sport fish for anglers, but new aquaculture businesses are moving the focus back to fish meant to be eaten.
Small pieces of plastic have skirted the wastewater treatment process and ended up in the eastern Wisconsin lake, research says.
The fish are cut off from their spawning grounds by a wood-and-rock irrigation dam in eastern Montana. They now number about 125 wild fish, and U.S. government officials have acknowledged that the species could go
city followed DNR protocol by shutting water levels to the minimum level, but did not predict the impact on fish – up to 5,000 died.
Researchers are using oil that comes from a gland on chickens’ tails to improve survival at fish farms; the oil reportedly also could be used to domesticate wild fish like walleye and allow them to
Atlantic salmon face a number of challenges in the wild, ranging from the presence of river dams to continued fishing pressure off of Canada and Greenland.
More than 1,000 of the fish dead at Hickory Hills Park fishery – likely due to natural spawning stress, although health of largemouth bass, bluegills and black crappies as a whole is good.
State officials say while releasing fish bought in pet shops may seem harmless, they can become invasive and multiply by the thousands, or they can struggle to survive and to fend off more aggressive predators.
State’s leaders fail to recognize opportunity for aid.
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