NOAA Gulfstream G-IV flight aborted due to a fish strike

A Gulfstream from NOAA rumbled down the runway at MacDill Air Force Base until the crew noticed it hit something. At first they thought it was a bird, most likely an osprey, and aborted the flight. But when the base wildlife management officer looked around for a dead bird, she couldn’t find one. But she did find a fish.

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High-Tech Tuna Researcher Uncovers Marvels of the Big Fish

Bluefin tuna are badass.

Of all tunas tested by Block and various co-authors, at all temperatures tested, the bluefin displays the highest rate of calcium uptake in the tuna family, twice that of albacore and three times that of yellowfin tuna and bigeye tuna.

LINK (via:National Geographic)

“It was a real frat-boy scene, a total circus”

The Town of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard has wisely put an end to the Monster Shark Tournament.

LINK (via:Bloomberg Business Week)

Fish-guiding technology getting a test run on US salmon

California’s department of water resources is installing a floating, fish-guidance boom to prevent migrating chinook salmon taking a dangerous detour.

LINK (via:Undercurrent News)

Officials eye restoring westslope cutthroat trout to Camas Lake, Big Camas Creek

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is considering introducing westslope cutthroat trout to Camas Lake and Big Camas Creek.

Prior to stocking rotenone would be used to remove the Yellowstone cutthroat that currently reside in the lakes.

LINK (via: The Missoulian)

Stalking Puget Sound Steelhead With Science

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