Isn't it time you put your carcass to work?

At least 137 different species — from grizzly bears to gray wolves — depend on salmon for part of their diet. Even trees and plants benefit from the nutrients brought back by salmon from the seas.

LINK (via: Salmon Nation)

Fishstarter - Tarpon Tracking and Research

Project Tarpon has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the distribution of 2,000 streamer tags to be placed in tarpon and to create a website for reporting and publishing recapture data.

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Plastic fish are coming to save salmon

Photo: Courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

In a bid to find out the kind of struggles fish that live near hydroelectric power plants face, scientists have designed "sensor fish" — plastic tubes filled with technology that can measure the stresses and strains put on salmon swimming through dam machinery.

LINK (via: The Verge)

Net economic value of recreational steelhead fishing in Idaho (1985)

Some of my steelhead conservation friends might find some useful historical data in this US Department of Agriculture study from 1985.

Fish with Gigantic Genitals Were the First Species to Get Laid

Real fish porn.

Sex is an ancient act, but it hasn't been around forever. From the beginning of time to about 430 million years ago, life forms reproduced by spawning. But sometime between then and 385 million years back, a kind of armored fish known as a placoderm developed things like arms, legs, jaws, and genitals that—if you squinted real hard—made it resemble a human being.

LINK (via:Vice)

A Bridge to Far

Photo: brewbooks

A recent study provides strong evidence of substantial migration interference and increased mortality risk associated with the Hood Canal Floating Bridge, and may partially explain low early marine survival rates observed in Hood Canal steelhead populations.

LINK (via: PLOS One)