Fishing
The Last Days of the Blue-Blood Harvest
There is another way though—a way for modern medicine to make use of modern technology rather than the blood of an ancient animal. A synthetic substitute for horseshoe-crab blood has been available for 15 years. This is a story about how scientists quietly managed to outdo millions of years of evolution, and why it has taken the rest of the world so long to catch up.
NPR
Worries over racism, waterways inspire push to rename fish
Minnesota state Sen. Foung Hawj was never a fan of the “Asian carp” label commonly applied to four imported fish species that are wreaking havoc in the U.S. heartland, infesting numerous rivers and bearing down on the Great Lakes.
But the last straw came when an Asian business delegation arriving at the Minneapolis airport encountered a sign reading “Kill Asian Carp.” It was a well-intentioned plea to prevent spread of the invasive fish. But the message was off-putting to the visitors.
Hawj and fellow Sen. John Hoffman in 2014 won approval of a measure requiring that Minnesota agencies refer to the fish as “invasive carp,” despite backlash from the late radio commentator Rush Limbaugh, who ridiculed it as political correctness.
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Usually getting a sporting license in New York is much more of a pain then it really should be.
Stores never have the paper, or a clerk, and DECALS always crashes. Hell, even when I go the NYS DEC World Headquarters vending window at 625 Broadway Albany, New Yak 12233, staffed by central staff in the Bureau of Fish and Wildlife they are struggling to make DECALS website or their printer work. You’d think at the DEC World Headquarters, they’d know what they are doing.
I went to Tanner’s Outdoors Sport in Spectulator today on my lunch break, and I was in and out in less then 2 minutes. I barely had time to count the $25 out before they handed me my new fishing license. I think that’s the first time that’s happened in my life.
bLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH you should get your lifetime sporting license. And I probably should but that seems like such a damn commitment to the future.
Pollution from car tires is killing off salmon on US west coast, study finds | Environment | The Guardian
In recent years, scientists have realized half or more of the coho salmon, also known as silver salmon, returning to streams in Washington state were dying before spawning. The salmon, which reach 2ft in length, are born in freshwater streams before making an epic journey out to sea where they live most of their adult lives. A small number then return to their original streams to lay eggs before dying.
Fears for a million livelihoods in Kenya and Tanzania as Mara River fish die out Read more The cause of the die-off has remained a mystery but a new study, published in Science, has seemingly found a culprit. When it rains, stormwater carries fragments of old car tires into nearby creeks and streams. The tires contain certain chemicals that prevent them breaking down but also prove deadly to the coho salmon.