Sunday, August 18, 2013 at 12:00AM 
Unless they're drunk.
Scientists swear they had a really good reason for building a robotic fish, getting some other fish drunk, and then chasing them around with it.
LINK (via: Inkfish)
fish in the news, fish science in Science Monday, August 5, 2013 at 12:03AM A roundtable presented by Monmouth University featuring some noted angling and scientific experts.
Wednesday, July 31, 2013 at 12:00AM 
New research from the University of Exeter and King’s College London has shown how a population of brown trout can survive in the contaminated waters of the River Hayle in Cornwall where metal concentrations are so high they would be lethal to fish from unpolluted sites.
LINK (via: Science Blog)
brown trout, fish in the news, fish science in News, Science, Species Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 12:00AM 
Compiling data from MPAtlas.org and MPA.gov; researchers from the Marine Conservation Institute in Seattle, Washington; and Mission Blue calculated the fraction of coastal waters that each state or territory has designated as a no-fishing zone.
Here's the percentage of state waters currently set aside in no-take reserves:
22.9%: Hawaii
8.7%: California
5.7%: U.S. Virgin Islands
1% or less: Florida, Puerto Rico, Oregon, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Washington, American Samoa, North Carolina, Virginia, and Maine.
0%: Alabama, Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire , New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Texas.
While science says that marine reserves help fish stocks recover, recreational fishing interests mobilzed in fierce opposition when California's marine protection areas were first proposed.
So how are those California's marine reserves working?
Six years after California put in place the nation's most expansive network of marine reserves -- a controversial experiment aimed at bringing back crashing populations of fish and other ocean species by creating dozens of "no-fishing zones" along the coast -- the effort appears to be working.
fish science, marine protection zones in Conservation, Environment, Science Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 12:03AM 
Recreational angling for sharks is becoming a popular leisure activity worldwide. Sharks are also landed as bycatch when recreational anglers target other fish species. Given the important role sharks play in marine ecosystems, developing a better understanding of when recreational anglers encounter sharks and how they handle sharks once landed is important for their conservation and management.
Thanks!
fish science, fishing for sharks, what would quint do? in Action, Science Friday, March 22, 2013 at 12:00AM 
Researchers have discovered that Dolly Varden feasts once a year and, in doing so, quadruple the size of its stomach.
Other animals have been discovered to grow and shrink their digestive tracks, but this is the first time researchers have found a wild fish to do so.
LINK (via: iTech Post)
