Rusty crayfish may not have a nose as such, but they do have an exceptional sense of smell. With a “sniff”, these crustaceans can glean all sorts of information…
A new study in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences has found plastic is making its way into double-crested cormorants in the Great Lakes. The authors identified…
California sea lions and Cassin’s auklets were starving. Tropical fishes were found swimming in Alaskan waters. It was 2014, and a large patch of the northeast Pacific Ocean was…
If asked to think of the ecological role fish play in rivers and streams, there’s a good chance you will immediately think of the fish as a predator or…
Climate change is causing ice in the Arctic to quickly recede, opening the Northwest Passage to increased traffic of ships and boats. The frequency of sound that fish can…
The location of fishes can be tracked using underwater listening stations. But is the detection of electronically tagged fish by these stations equal across habitats? In their new publication in Canadian Journal…
Anglers use nets to land fish and fisheries scientists use networks to study the relationships between resource consumers and natural resources. One such scientist is Dr. Christopher Chizinski, Assistant…
Passages built beside dams to allow trout and salmon to continue moving upstream are common mitigation tools but do these structures work for little fishes too? In a new study published in Canadian…
In Canada, plastic pollution of our waterbodies is an emerging concern in a crowd of aquatic stressors. Similar to chemical contaminants such as PCBs, plastics can be pervasive across…
Where you find a fish, you also find a fish’s habitat. You can find rockfish among British Columbia’s kelp forests. You can find speckled lake trout cruising in the…