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Global Warming Coming To An Ice Fishing Contest Near You
Posted by Greg Laden on February 9, 2016 
Over the last several years, ice fishing contests, which are a big deal in Minnesota, have been repeatedly cancelled due to insufficient ice thickness on the relevant lake. Some of these contests have been permanently cancelled because the annual cancelations were becoming more frequent. Just now, the Maple Lake Ice Fishing Derby has been cancelled.…
Humans being loud under water, Cuttlefish
Posted by Greg Laden on October 11, 2014 
Last June (and May and July and part of August) we had a lot of precipitation in Minnesota. This caused lake levels to rise modestly. One lake, which is large enough to have meaningful waves, has older settlement along it so lots of cabins, boat houses, and such are right on the shoreline. With the…
The strangest supposed “fish” yet?
Posted by Greg Laden on November 23, 2013 I’m sure that several years ago a bunch of out of work “oceanographers” like the people here got board and started faking various “fish” that only they ever saw in the wild and only they ever photographed and that lived in the “deep” ocean where nobody could verify their existence. I assume this was a…
Man fishing for bluegills catches shark by hand instead
Posted by Greg Laden on July 18, 2013 This is funny: Just so you know, he was not fishing for “bluegills” This is a bluegill: Bluegills live in fresh water and are like “sunfish” and “pumpkinseeds” and “crappies” etc. all of which are in the bass family. Bluefish live in the ocean and roam along littoral regions in large schools. This is what…
Japan Nuclear Disaster Update # 37: Glow in the dark fish, and the meaning of “Power”
Posted by Analiese Miller and Greg Laden on October 5, 2011 As a result of our last posting on Fukushima, we had a discussion initiated by commenter Daedelus2u about radioactive istopes of Cesium becoming concentrated in fish. I thought I’d take this opportunity to expand on that discussion a little. This relates to the possibility that radioactive elements spilled or spewed from a nuclear reactor site…
World’s Largest Fish that is not a whale* on film!
Posted by Greg Laden on February 11, 2010 This sucker was filmed in the Gulf of Mexico swimming among the oil rigs!!! It propelled itself with undulations of its dorsal fin and looks a lot like a sea serpent. In fact, it is said to be “the origin of the sea serpent myth” but I’m not quite sure what the difference is between…
“I only fish for the fishing, not the catching”
Posted by Greg Laden on July 11, 2009 There are two lies you will hear from anyone who is into the sport of angling. 1) “It was THIS BIG!” and 2) “Catching fish isn’t the point. It’s the experience of fishing that matters.” The Mocking Bass. For four years this fish watched me cast lures and live bait from the end of the…
Hey Dawg, check out this fish…
Posted by Greg Laden on May 22, 2008 This is apparently some kind of a record.
Shark
Posted by Greg Laden on February 11, 2008 It is no secret that shark videos are very, very popular. So, it is not surprising that Mark Powell at Blogfish has posted this rare and unusual footage of shark-human interaction.
Giant Shark Freaks Out Oceanographers
Posted by Greg Laden on February 7, 2008 The video of the shark is cool, but to me it’s just a video of a shark. But listen to the commentary and you realize that this is a big deal. Five or six meters long, a head a meter wide, something really interesting about its gill slits. I’m glad these guys are having so…