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Logan Cutler @logancutler.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

New obsession: Metazooa, a taxonomy guessing game. Each guess reveals the closest common taxonomic rank as you narrow in on the animal of the day. Nerdy, educational, and mildly addicting.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I'm reviewing abstracts for an upcoming scientific conference, helping the planning team to select which attendees get a chance to present their work. Some are amazingly good. Some suggest that the applicant has not ever been taught how to write an abstract. Here are some basic tips: 🧪

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Watersheds Canada @watersheds.ca · 10/12/2025

Fish Habitat program manager Melissa Dakers and Executive Director Robert Pye were invited onto the 'Doc Talks Fishing' podcast! This show, hosted by Bass Pro Shops & Cabela's Ambassasor Gord Pyzer and Liam Whetter, explores fisheries projects with environmental professionals from around the world.

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Titus Seilheimer @drfishsg.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Another #GarWeek spotlight species is the Bowfin. Check out this young of the year bowfin from a Green Bay coastal wetland. #GreatLakes

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American Fisheries Society @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

This week Executive Director @jeffkopaska.bsky.social joined Community Kevin Brannon on The Reel Anglers' Podcast to discuss conservation, fishing regulations, partnerships, and more: youtu.be/FbTIZ16cPpQ?...

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Reel Angler Podcast: Community Kevin talks with Jeff Kopaska of the American Fisheries Society.

YouTube video by Rough Edge Studios / Rough Edge FM

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GarLab @garlab.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Meet #GarLab member Charlie Vaughn! Charlie is a second year MS student based in UMN-Duluth, researching longnose gar and emerald bowfin life history variations in MN. He’s been thrilled to work with the team, and looks forward to further exploring the ecology of these species.

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Minnesota AFS @mnafs.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The ***online application form*** for Fisheries Professional Certification is here! Join us for a quick run through webinar and Q&A, on Nov 5th 2025 at 12pm Central time. Click to register: fisheries.org/membership/c...

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Kamden Glade @kgladefishsci.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Spent the last three days tagging, scanning, measuring, and stocking nearly 2,700 muskellunge to supplement natural reproduction and improve angling opportunities in Minnesota! #52FishyFridays 🐟🐠🎣

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Kamden Glade @kgladefishsci.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

This apple didn’t fall far from the tree, my daughter was fascinated with the native Minnesota predators at the Great Lakes Aquarium a few weeks ago! #52FishyFridays 🐟🐠

A toddler looks into an aquarium tank at a walleye and a muskellunge

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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I’m in Bozeman, Montana, to talk native fish conservation with the MeatEater folks! Looking forward to sharing and learning about diverse perspectives regarding stewardship of our natural resources!

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Logan Cutler @logancutler.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

And happy 18th birthday to ggplot2! 😳🎉

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Logan Cutler @logancutler.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

A harsh reality that I struggle to accept. “Fishes” still sounds weird to me, even if I know it’s right.

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Logan Cutler @logancutler.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Super quick and easy process (<5 minutes) to submit a comment!

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Logan Cutler @logancutler.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Weekend #FishPuke. This largemouth bass puked up a few soft plastic baits after I caught it. I pick up a few dozen of these baits off of lake bottoms each year, and apparently bass do too!

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Kamden Glade @kgladefishsci.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

#TeamFish for the win! #BirdsVsFish 🐟🐠

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Minnesota Sea Grant (MNSG) @mnseagrant.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

🔬 #LakeSuperior Speaks: Researcher Feature! UMD’s Dr. Mark Clark & Dr. Alec Lackmann will dive into lesser-known native fish of #Minnesota—and how tiny ear bones called #otoliths reveal their age, growth & life history. 🐟👀 📅 Register by July 10: z.umn.edu/mnsg_lakesup... #EduSky 🧪🍎

A Golden Shiner fish inside a flask of water. Credit: Minnesota Sea Grant.

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Logan Cutler @logancutler.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Who does this??? Enough people doubt science as it is 😅

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Logan Cutler @logancutler.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

So many anglers in the Great Lakes region are shocked to hear that not all lampreys are invasive.

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

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Logan Cutler @logancutler.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

#FishPuke from this weekend during a trip to Voyageurs National Park. This smallmouth bass puked up a trout perch *with force* while I was unhooking it.

A smallmouth bass with a trout perch that it had eaten and puked up.

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Mike Louison @mikelouison.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Hi all - Callout for help with class! I'm teaching an online course in fisheries conservation for UIUC this summer, and I'm looking to find a few more fisheries professionals/fish enthusiast academics to pop in over Zoom for a guest talk of the speaker's choice to the class! Anyone interested?

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American Fisheries Society @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Join AFS for our next webinar on Wednesday, June 11 at 2:00 pm EDT: Risk of the live baitfish trade as a pathway of invasive species introductions, with Hannah Mulligan from South Dakota State University. Register now: secure.fisheries.org/MemberRespon...

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drogle.bsky.social @drogle.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

A new v0.10.0 of #fish #rstats package #FSA is at CRAN. Growth modeling (i.e., find starting values and displaying eqns) and handling size structure length categories and standard weight eqns have been substantially modified. New demo and explainer articles are at fishr-core-team.github.io/FSA/

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Simple Fisheries Stock Assessment Methods

A variety of simple fish stock assessment methods.

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Logan Cutler @logancutler.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

One week after my wife helped out with musky netting for work, she landed a musky of her own on the same lake on WI fishing opener while targeting pike and bass.

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JD Schooley @dirtydog.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I really hope that content such as this reaches and resonates with hunters and anglers across the US. The downstream effects of the cuts to science and the people who do it will *definitely* impact mgmt of fish and game in all states. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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Ep. 371: A Former USFWS Director Speaks Out

Podcast Episode · Cal of the Wild · 04/28/2025 · 54m

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Logan Cutler @logancutler.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I wish I had this resource going into my master’s project!

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Logan Cutler @logancutler.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

When the bycatch is even cooler than the target. A couple more days and we’ll be switching from targeting walleyes to targeting muskies.

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Titus Seilheimer @drfishsg.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Saturday morning out it the field. That's just what we do at outreach and extension, get the job done and help improve habitat. We're a bargain and a great investment. Not billing hours, just serving the public.

A man, a creek, a mission. Restoring streams!

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Alex Latzka @alexlatzka.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Check out our new WI Fishing Finder. Public access, boat ramps, regulations, habitat, stocking histories, consumption advisories and more, all in one map. We can’t find the fish for you, but we can help you decide where to give it a shot dnrmaps.wi.gov/H5/?viewer=WFF

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Wisconsin DNR

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Titus Seilheimer @drfishsg.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

As we approach the Lake Sturgeon spawning season in Wisconsin's Wolf River, its fun to look at what is happening in the river with this live cam! I just saw a redhorse swim by and also spotted a walleye. www.youtube.com/live/O00yPee...

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Wolf River Cam LIVE

YouTube video by Wolf River Cam

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Chris Martin @fishspeciation.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

😱Wow, in other news, Devil's Hole #pupfish just plummeted to an historic low of 20 fish this winter from 191 fish in the fall. Luckily, USFWS had a handy refuge population and *for the 1st time ever* reintroduced captive fish into the wild, doubling the population. www.nps.gov/deva/learn/n...

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Devils Hole pupfish - spring 2025 count - Death Valley National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

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Logan Cutler @logancutler.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Saint Louis River sturgeon, a couple days before the season closes. This one went 55.75”. It’s the biggest one I’ve measured, but I believe I’ve caught bigger while walleye fishing on the Winnebago system.

55.75-inch Lake Sturgeon caught in the Saint Louis River, WI

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Titus Seilheimer @drfishsg.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Got out to see the northern pike again with the family. Lots of activity in this pond.

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Logan Cutler @logancutler.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

15.5” Lake Superior Coho Salmon. Swimming on Friday afternoon, now is no longer swimming.

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Alex Latzka @alexlatzka.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Following up on one of my first posts here, here’s a job coordinating fish passage and other conservation projects in our largest Brook Trout Reserve. Like trout, trout streams, or working with partners to pursue conservation projects - consider applying! wj.wi.gov/17546

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Titus Seilheimer @drfishsg.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Sea Lamprey control reduction during the COVID-19 pandemic corresponds to rapid increase in Sea Lamprey abundance #GreatLakes 🧪 academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...

Multiple Sea Lamprey Petromyzon marinus attached to a Brown Trout Salmo trutta caught in Lake Ontario in 2022. Photo credit: Andrew Bliss.

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Logan Cutler @logancutler.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Repost with a movie to which you know all the words. I’m terrible with movie quotes, but Anchorman is about as close as I get to knowing the whole script.

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a man and a woman sitting at a news desk with the words you stay classy behind them

ALT: a man and a woman sitting at a news desk with the words you stay classy behind them

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Logan Cutler @logancutler.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

After all that trout scooping for work, I had to go catch some for myself. I ❤️ brookies

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Logan Cutler @logancutler.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

2 brown trout population estimates complete. Handled around 1500 unique brown trout over 4 days, plus some bonus brookies, creek chubs, sculpin, white suckers, and Johnny darters. Now time to reset before walleye netting begins.

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Logan Cutler @logancutler.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

One brown trout population estimate down, one to go! Handled ~1000 fish in a 4 mile stretch over 2 days with 150-200 brown trout over 18”

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Folks, exactly 5 years ago today I made this offer, & I'll do it again. Many graduate students are in danger of losing their one field season for collecting data- in March 2020 because of the pandemic, now because of Musk-Trump BS. This means that many won't be able to finish graduate school. 🧪🧵

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Logan Cutler @logancutler.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Lake Superior is neat. A bunch of smallmouth (almost all >17”), a brown trout, and a pike off of the same rock hump. Walleye, burbot, splake, coho, whitefish and cisco are all up for grabs here too, but none today

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Brandon Gerig @brandongerig.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Unexpected bottom topography (ridges of clay with what look like scour holes) at 110 m in Lake Michigan. Anyone know more about these geologic features?

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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

For context, the funding being terminated is 50% of Maine Sea Grant's budget. Cutting $4.5 million won't make a drop in the overall federal budget, but will decimate the program. Maine Sea Grant, like all Sea Grant programs, exists to serve the American people. The return on investment is huge.

An infographic about the impact of Sea Grant funding

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Elizabeth Smith @eeeeelizzzzz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I’m a federal employee, a research meteorologist at a NOAA lab (OAR-NSSL). I still have my job tonight. Many of my NOAA colleagues and many more of my fellow civil servants don’t. I want to share what people like me do. Instead of doomscrolling, maybe we can learn what civil service looks like.

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Kamden Glade @kgladefishsci.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Among the other great points in this statement, “Every dollar spent on conservation in the US has a positive return of 2.4 times its original investment.” Conserving natural resources is good business. 🐟🐠🎣

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Alison Coulter @sdsufishecology.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Never thought a Dakota Chapter #AFS would be in the 50s but it ended up being a great trip to Bismarck. #SDSUNRM turned out:)

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