Climbing perch may make it to mainland Australia

An aggressive foreign fish that can move across dry land and choke birds and other fish is threatening to make its way onto Australian soil from Papua New Guinea.

Researchers and rangers are monitoring the climbing perch, which has already overrun waterways on two Queensland islands in the Torres Strait.

The noxious fish can last several days on land by using lungs to breathe.

LINK (via:ABC)

USA! USA!

Congratulations to Team USA who took the Silver Medal, and Devin Olsen who scored the individual Bronze, at the recent 35th World Fly Fishing Championships in Jajce, Bosnia.

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Creek poisoning proposal upsets some Soda Butte Creek enthusiasts

Yellowstone National Park, in coordination with partner agencies Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks; Wyoming Game & Fish Department, and the U.S. Forest Service; propose to remove brook trout from Soda Butte Creek to continue a two decade long effort to restore Yellowstone's native fish population.

Officials have proposed trading electrofishing gear for poison on the creek, an idea that has some anglers upset.

LINK (via:Bozeman Daily Chronicle)

Colorado's wild rainbow trout story could have a fairy tale ending

Much like the mythological unicorn, though, Colorado's rainbow trout pulled a disappearing act about 20 years ago. The black magic known as whirling disease decimated the state's rainbow trout population, reducing it to less than 1 percent of the total trout population in former strongholds such as the Colorado River in the mid-1990s.

With fish hatcheries and rivers statewide soon testing positive for the parasite responsible for whirling disease, the outlook grew increasingly grim. But the tumultuous story may have finally found its fairy-tale ending.

LINK (via: The Denver Post)

Sea Justice

Someone's been a bad boy in Astoria.  Several Sea Lions and a harbor seal have been found shot near Astoria, Oregon recently and there is now a $5,000 reward for the unknown marksman. LINK  

Another, well-loved and well-known sea lion named Nessie was also recently found shot in the head on a sandbar near the Cowlitz River near Longview, WA.  LINK

In related news, video has surfaced of seals being trained for possible retaliation in a secret Russian training facility.

Dead mayflies inches deep on road

The Route 462 bridge over the Susquehanna River between Columbia and Wrightsville has reopened after mayflies forced its closure Saturday night, police said.

Photo Gallery (via: Lancaster Online)