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Lee Gutowsky
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DFO Research Scientist | SAR | Fish & Fish Habitat | AIS | Dad | Husband | 🇨🇦
This documentary needs more views: Nick Klundt along with local legends like Lars Aadland tell the incredible story of Lake Sturgeon extirpation & recovery in Minnesota ❤️ youtu.be/X80Y8NMkozM?...
Kings in the North: Lake Sturgeon Recovery in the Red River
YouTube video by Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
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December 19, 2024 at 1:30 AM
Reposted by Lee Gutowsky
Migratory fish species are in drastic decline, a UN report details. 🧪🌎🐟🌿🦑 www.sciencenews.org/article/migr...
Migratory fish species are in drastic decline, a new UN report details
The most comprehensive tally of how migrating animals are faring looks at more than 1,000 land and aquatic species and aims to find ways to protect them.
www.sciencenews.org
November 24, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Congratulations to Marshall Stuart of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for defending his MSc yesterday afternoon.
Marshall is the rockstar who, alongside Amanda Caskenette, was behind a lot of the analyses in this recent Bigmouth Buffalo paper 👇
www.facetsjournal.com/doi/full/10....
Bigmouth Buffalo (Ictiobus cyprinellus) migratory behaviour and seasonal home range overlap are functions of geographic space in a fragmented riverscape
In temperate rivers, where environmental conditions vary seasonally, many fishes migrate among summer, spawning, and winter habitats. Dams disrupt these migrations, limiting access to habitat and pote...
www.facetsjournal.com
November 23, 2024 at 9:15 PM
New paper on an underappreciated but utterly fascinating fish: the Freshwater Drum

Did you know they will swim hundreds of km/month?!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Exploring the extensive movements and home range of one of North America’s most mobile fish: the freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens) - Environmental Biology of Fishes
Freshwater drum Aplodinotus grunniens are a unique and ubiquitous freshwater species of the family Sciaenidae. Despite the species’ wide distribution and unique biogeography, life history, and behavio...
link.springer.com
November 22, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Twitter is polluted. So here I am, ready to read and write about science 🫡
November 18, 2024 at 1:49 AM