Fisherwomen

Two exciting announcements: I recently had the great honor of appearing as a guest Jill Corey’s wonderful podcast, Water Women. And, I just had my very first peer-reviewed article published, in the latest issue of the Western North American Naturalist! I’m currently moving for a new job, hence the radio silence. But rest assured, I’m working behind the scenes on Fisherwomen whenever I can, and look forward to the return of Fisherwomen in 2022!Osborn, Katherine, Tim Mulligan, and Andre Buchheister. 2021. Seasonal fish communities in three Northern California estuaries. Western North American Naturalist 81(4): https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/wnan/vol81/iss4/2/Fish: Blobs vs. Noodles? – Katie Osborn on the Water Women Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/y6jwx2va

Bruce Koike has gone from poultry farmer in Missouri to aquarium scientist in New Orleans to artist in Newport, Oregon. We discuss his unusual career path, the parallels between art and science, and the history of Gyotaku. Of course, we also find time for some great fish stories! Stay tuned for the creature feature to learn about the five major invasive carp species in North America!Check out Bruce’s art: koikebruce.wixsite.com, where you’ll also find a list of his upcoming appearances at art festivals and fisheries conferences.Submit a creature feature to be aired on the show! Learn more at: fisherwomenpod.com/ Resources (*indicates paywall or item for purchase; **AFS publications)Fisheries Blog: A compilation of fish art from the last quincentenary: https://tinyurl.com/yht424tyGuidetti and Micheli. 2011. Ancient art serving marine conservation. The Ecological Society of America. Essay: https://tinyurl.com/35t5yua7 Related news article: https://tinyurl.com/hv87n92*Miyazaki, Yusuke and Atsunobu Murase. 2020. Fish rubbings, ‘gyotaku’, as a source of historical biodiversity data. Zookeys 904:89-101. https://tinyurl.com/289s8tz4 *Fukuchi, Mitsuo and Harvey J. Marchant. 2006. Antarctic Fishes: Illustrated in the gyotaku method by Boshu Nagase. Dural: Rosenberg Publishing **Publications of the American Fisheries Society**Kocovsky, Patrick M., Duane C. Chapman, and Song Qian. 2018. Asian Carp is Societally and Scientifically Problematic. Let's Replace It. Fisheries 43(7): 311-316. **Murray, Devin N., David B Bunnell, Mark W. Rogers, Abigail J. Lynch, T. Douglas Beard Jr., and Simon Funge-Smith. 2020. Trends in Inland Commercial Fisheries in the United States. Fisheries 45(11): 585-596. **Tsehaye, Iyob, Matthew Catalano, Greg Sass, David Glover, and Brian Roth. 2013. Prospects for Fishery-Induced Collapse of Invasive Asian Carp in the Illinois River. Fisheries 38(10): 445-454. **Zhao, Yingming, Liang Zhang, Chunfang Wang, and Congxin Xie. 2020. Biology and Ecology of Grass Carp in China: A Review and Synthesis. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 40: 1379-1399. **Stuart, Ivor G. and Anthony J. Conallin. 2018. Control of Globally Invasive Common Carp: An 11-Year CommercialTrial of the Williams’ Cage. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 38: 1160-1169 **Hayer, Cari-Ann, Michael F. Bayless, Catherine A. Richter, Amy E. George, and Duane C. Chapman. 2021. Grass Carp Reproductions in Small Tributaries of Truman Reservoir, Missouri: Implications for Establishment in Novel Habitats. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. CreditsThank you to Bruce Koike for the great cover photo of himself on his fishing boat for this episode. Theme mixed by me, using sounds sourced from sfxgo, orangefreesound, and freesound. Please see website for full credits.  

In this episode I speak with Sarah Hoffman, a fisheries scientist with BioMark (https://www.biomark.com) in Boise, Idaho. We discuss her doctoral research on sharks off the Florida coast, and her current work at Biomark finding new research and conservation applications for drones and databases. Our creature feature continues the shark theme and follows up from where we left off last time in my episode with Susie Zagorski. Listen and learn why sharks are more warm-hearted than you might think! If you would like to hear more about Sarah Hoffmann’s work, check out her appearance on the Reality Capture Network podcast last year: https://tinyurl.com/fammd8e4Submit a creature feature of your own to be aired on the show! Find out more at: https://fisherwomenpod.com/ Is your pet’s microchip registered? Without registration the tag is just a serial number, with none of you or your pet’s information should they get lost. Thankfully, there’s more free registries out there than ever before, such as Michaelson Found Animals (https://microchipregistry.foundanimals.org/), which I use for my pets, and the free pet microchip registry (https://www.freepetchipregistry.com/). So, if you’re unsure whether your pet is registered, or if the information might be out of date, check your pet’s registration status today! Resources (*indicates paywall)Sea Turtle Database: https://seaturtledb.com/about RoboTuna: https://news.mit.edu/1994/robotuna-0921 Farmer, C.G. 2000. Parental Care: The Key to Understanding Endothermy and Other Convergent Features in Birds and Mammals. The American Naturalist 155(3): 326-334. https://tinyurl.com/3d325unz See, K.E., M.W. Ackerman, R. Carmichael, S.L. Hoffman, and C. Beasley. 2021. Empirically Estimating Carrying Capacity for Juvenile Chinook Salmon. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 102(2). 6 pgs. https://tinyurl.com/3uzyueab*Block, B.A. 2011. Endothermy in Tunas, Billfishes, and Sharks. In: Farrell A.P.(editor), Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology: From Genome to Environment(3): 1914–1920. San Diego: Academic Press.*Hoffmann, S.L., T. Buser, and M.E. Porter. 2020. Comparative morphology of shark pectoral fins. Journal of Morphology*Moyle, P.B. and J.J. Cech. 2004. Buoyancy and Thermal regulation. In: Fishes: An Introduction to Ichthyology. University Press.*Vogel and Wainwright. 1969. A Functional Bestiary. Laboratory studies about living systems. 112 pgs. Addison Wesley Publishing.CreditsThank you to Sarah Hoffmann for the great cover photo of herself for this episode. Theme mixed by me, using sounds sourced from sfxgo, orangefreesound, and freesound. Please see website for full credits. Thank you.

In this episode I speak with Susie Zagorski, who at the time of our conversation was Field Project Manager for the North Pacific Fisheries Research Foundation. We discuss her research to ensure the sustainability of the Alaska Pollock fishery, the largest fishery in the United States. Since our conversation, Susie has switched jobs and now works as a purser on C/P Starbound, a commercial Alaska pollock fishing vessel (C/P is for “catch/process” and denotes a ship that fishes for a species and processes that species onboard). Our creature feature this week is on swordfish and why they’re literally hotheaded.Submit a creature feature to be aired on the show! Learn more at https://fisherwomenpod.comResourcesIanelli, James N. and D.L. Stram, 2015. Estimating impacts of the pollock fishery on western Alaska Chinook salmon. ICES Journal of Marine Science 72(4): 1159-1172. https://tinyurl.com/yzwar46v Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch and their consumer guides: https://www.seafoodwatch.org/recommendations/download-consumer-guides Alaska Pollock fishery: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/alaska-pollock California’s swordfish fishery: https://tinyurl.com/4csdbucb B.A. Block. 2011. Endothermy in Tunas, Billfishes, and Sharks. In: Farrell A.P. (editor),Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology: From Genome to Environment (3): 1914–1920. San Diego: Academic Press. https://tinyurl.com/r6mnjtn3 Fritsches, Kerstin A., R.W. Brill, and E.J. Warrant. 2005. Warm eyes provide superior vision in swordfishes. Current Biology 15(1): 55-58. https://tinyurl.com/3b23y662 CreditsThank you to Susie Zagorski for the great cover photo of herself for this episode. Theme mixed by me, using sounds sourced from sfxgo, orangefreesound, and freesound. Please see website for full credits. 

Fisherwomen returns with all new episodes starting Tuesday, July 20th! Here’s a few other fisheries podcasts to tide you over in the interim:

Social Fishtancing (Coastal Routes Radio): https://ssfhub.org/resource/social-fishtancing-podcast-coastal-routes-radio-vol-1

Anchored, Marine Life in Lockdown (Scottish Fisheries Museum): https://anchor.fm/scotfishmuseum/episodes/Anchored-Marine-Life-in-Lockdown---Episode-1-ejvvk4

NudiBrains (Emily Pierce): https://blubrry.com/nudibrains/

The Fisheries Podcast (Nick Kramer, Julie Vecchio, Brett Kelly): https://fisheriespodcast.podbean.com/#

In this episode I speak with Richie Jones, who has lots of great fish stories and loves sharing them. Check out his website at: https://www.africanamericanflyfishing.com/ Richie also mentions “Soul River,” a program that connects veterans and at-risk youth through flyfishing. More information is available on their website: https://soulriverinc.org

The film mentioned today is “The Sacramento River at Current Speed,” free to watch here: https://www.wildandscenicfilmfestival.org/film/the-sacramento-at-current-speed/

Our Creature Feature this week comes from Vrijenhoek’s 2010 article in Molecular Ecology: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04789.x

Submit a creature feature to be aired on the show, information here: https://fisherwomenpod.wordpress.com/creature-feature/

Resources:

 Jen Ripple’s article on tips for first-timers: https://dunmagazine.com/posts/5-things-you-should-know-before-you-try-fly-fishing

A starter flycasting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAyj9KF_MQE

Fly Fishers International (FFI) has a great series of free videos. This one has some helpful drills for practicing the basic flycast: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/My6AEc8HTAbFpwx9SbjjrhSyqNNl3aoWWkG5j03RheB5TpYc3PRMTZbOgfG0EbI62b7ncU1W-Ll_H8XX.rINYmTRXaflwWf1h?continueMode=true&_x_zm_rtaid=2TnPW9TARtqYj5cGFM8-tw.1601841063988.e9c5af59c81e60598ba59a34cee9b467&_x_zm_rhtaid=661

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In this episode I speak with Alexa Whipple, Project Director at the Methow Beaver Project, a program of the Methow Salmon Recovery Foundation. Visit the Methow Beaver Project online (https://methowbeaverproject.org) and follow them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Methow-Beaver-Project-221123695055531

 

Our Creature Feature this week is on pupfish of the genus Cyprinidon. They’re cute. They’re badass. And they’re mostly endangered. Want to submit a creature feature of your own to be aired on the show? Please do! Learn how at: https://fisherwomenpod.wordpress.com/creature-feature/

Get Involved! (listed north to south and west to east)

Washington: The Methow Beaver Project https://methowbeaverproject.org

Oregon: Beaver Works (Bend) and The Beaver Coalition (Jacksonville)

https://beaverworks.org

https://www.beavercoalition.org: A hub of beaver resources, sparked by the award-winning 2018 documentary “Beaver Believers”

California: Bring Back the Beaver Campaign (Sonoma County), Worth a Dam (Martinez, East Bay Area), the SLO Beaver Brigade (San Luis Obispo)

https://oaec.org/category/water/beaver/

https://www.martinezbeavers.org

http://www.slobeaverbrigade.com

Massachusetts: Beaver Solutions LLC: https://www.beaversolutions.com/

Connecticut: Connecticut Beaver Initiative: https://cwrawildlife.org/ct-beaver-initiative/

Pennsylvania: Beavers Matter: https://www.beaversmatter.org/

North America and Europe: The Beaver Trust, The Beaver Institute and BeaverCon

https://beavertrust.org

https://www.beaverinstitute.org/

https://www.beavercon.org/

 

Resources (Open-access listed first; * indicates paywall/ 11       products for sale)

The Beaver Restoration Guidebook. Updated June 2017. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e573dd0e2dc52648c2d6577/t/5f10a89a17d20b4ac4dc62c4/1594927290953/BRGv.2.0_6.30.17.pdf

Fairfax, Emily and Eric Small. 2018. “Using remote sensing to assess the impact of beaver damming on riparian evapotranspiration in an arid landscape” Ecohydrology.

http://geode.colorado.edu/~small/docs/Fairfax_et_al-2018-Ecohydrology.pdf

B. Clure and C. Thorne. 2014. “A stream evolution model integrating habitat and ecosystem benefits” River Research and Applications.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/97b5/7edce62571b00897b0ba5c182076772cf92a.pdf

Michael M. Pollock, Timothy J. Beechie, Joseph M. Wheaton, Chris E. Jordan, Nick Bouwes, Nicholas Weber, Carol Volk, 2014. “Using Beaver Dams to Restore Incised Stream Ecosystems” BioScience.

https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/64/4/279/2754168

2020. “Beaver power provides year-long water to Idaho ranch” Beef Magazine. (News) https://www.beefmagazine.com/sustainability/beaver-power-provides-year-long-water-idaho-ranch

Michael M. Pollock, George R. Pess, and Timothy J. Beechie. 2004 “The Importance of Beaver Ponds to Coho Salmon Production in the Stillaguamish River Basin, Washington, USA.” North American Journal of Fisheries Management

http://duff.ess.washington.edu/grg/publications/pdfs/Pollock.pdf

Whipple, Alexa. 2019. “Riparian Resilience in the face of Interacting Disturbances.” (Conference Presentation) https://www.rrnw.org/wp-content/uploads/5.1-RRNW-Alexa-Whipple-2019.pdf

*Frances Backhouse. 2015. “Once they were hats: in search of the mighty beaver” (Book)

https://www.amazon.com/Once-They-Were-Hats-Search/dp/1770412077

*Ben Goldfarb. 2018. “Eager: the surprising, secret lives of beaver and why they matter” (Book) https://www.amazon.com/Eager-Surprising-Secret-Beavers-Matter/dp/160358739X  

*The Beaver Believers. 2018. (Film) https://www.thebeaverbelievers.com/

 

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In this week’s episode I’ll be speaking with Sarah O’Neal, PhD candidate at the University of Washington, about the impacts of the proposed Pebble Mine on Bristol Bay Sockeye Salmon. Update: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers determined on Monday, October 19 that, “the project as proposed cannot be permitted under the Clean Water Act.” According to the USACE announcement, the mitigation burdens for the proposed Pebble Mine had not been met, and USACE has given developers 90 days to return with a revised proposal. But we’re not in the clear yet. Listen and learn about this critical issue and why copper mines pose a particular threat to aquatic life and salmon specifically.

Our Creature Feature this week is on the endangered Least Tern and comes from Nora Papian, a graduate of Humboldt State University’s M.S. Wildlife program.

Resources

 Documentary, “Just Keep Swimming” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQy7vRUT4HQ

Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment (EPA 2014): https://www.epa.gov/bristolbay/bristol-bay-assessment-final-report-2014

Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Pebble Project (USACE 2020): https://www.pebbleprojecteis.com/documents/finaleis

“Bristol Bay Alaska: natural resources of the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems (edited by Carole Ann Woody 2018): https://www.amazon.com/Bristol- Bay-Alaska-Terrestrial-Ecosystems

Fisheries and Hard Rock Mining: AFS Symposium Synopsis (Sarah O’Neal 2012): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241727916_Fisheries_and_Hard_Rock_Mining_AFS_Symposium_Synopsis

Trout Unlimited’s campaign to protect Bristol Bay on social media: https://www.facebook.com/SaveBristolBay ; https://www.instagram.com/savebristolbay/?hl=en ; https://twitter.com/SaveBristolBay

Sarah O’Neal in the field in Alaska: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt1W6ypFpMo Sarah O’Neal on ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sarah_Oneal2

“Apparent survival of snowy plovers varies seasonally” (M.S. Thesis, Nora Papian, 2018): https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/etd/128/

Background and Recent Developments

(2014 – July 2019): This CNN article summarizes the timeline from 2014 through July 2019: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/09/us/epa-alaska-pebble-mine-salmon-invs/index.html

(August 2020) Politico on Trump’s decision to put the brakes on Pebble: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/22/trump-set-to-block-alaska-pebble-mine-400206 (September 2020)

NYTimes article on the Pebble Mine tapes: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/climate/pebble-mine-alaska.html (September 2020) Pebble Tapes: https://eia-global.org/reports/20200921-the-pebble-tapes (October 2020)

Midnight Sun article analyzing Alaska Governor Dunlevy’s letter supporting the mine, includes a link to the actual letter: https://midnightsunak.com/2020/10/15/pebble-opponents-call-dunleavys-divisive-pro-pebble-shows-how-little-he-knows-about-bristol-bay/?fbclid=IwAR17FaM8AW4ueavoiqGmOAeQVLG-9q97RaxAEhbCYnBBCwdkkkVv0KdZpo8

 

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This week we delve into fish parenting with true natural history stories every bit as interesting as Finding Nemo! The Pebble Mine podcast episode is coming soon. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this mini-episode and are inspired to share your own fish stories: https://fisherwomenpod.wordpress.com/creature-feature

Resources (Open access listed first; *indicates paywall)

Berra, Tim M., and Francisco J. Neira. 2003. "Early life history of the nurseryfish, Kurtus gulliveri (Perciformes: Kurtidae), from northern Australia." Capoiea: 384-390. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240775561_Early_Life_History_of_the_Nurseryfish_Kurtus_gulliveri_Perciformes_Kurtidae_from_Northern_Australia

Bernardi, G., and A. Vagelli. 2004. "Population structure in Banggai cardinalfish, Pterapogon kauderni, a coral reef species lacking a pelagic larval phase." Marine Biology 145(4): 803-810. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225718806_Population_structure_in_Banggai_cardinalfish_Pterapogon_kauderni_a_coral_reef_species_lacking_a_pelagic_larval_phase

Confirmation of Slope Sea spawning in Atlantic Blue-fin Tuna: https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/the-secret-tuna-nursery/

*Nelson, Stephen G. and C. O'Neil Krekorian. 1976. "The dynamics of parental care of Copeina arnoldi (Pisces, Characidae)". Behavioral Biology 17(4): 507–518. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0091677376909196?via%3Dihub

*Kume, Gen, Atsuko Yamaguchi, and Ichiro Aoki. 2002. "Dummy egg production by female cardinalfish to deceive cannibalistic males: oogenesis without vitellogenesis." Environmental biology of fishes 65(4): 469-472. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1021106504726

*Bakker, Theo, and Beat Mundwiler. "Pectoral fin size in a fish species with paternal care: a condition‐dependent sexual trait revealing infection status." Freshwater Biology 41.3 (1999): 543-551. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652427/1999/41/3

*Stein, Laura R., and Alison M. Bell. "Paternal programming in sticklebacks." Animal Behaviour 95 (2014): 165-171. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347214002863

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In this week’s episode we learn how you go from harvesting fruit to a new approach for salmon passage, and how you go from virology to fish biology with Janine Bryan, Vice President of Biological and Environmental Sciences at Whooshh Innovations. Janine and Whooshh want to find innovative ways to help fish and fisheries professionals. We talk about salmon passage, measuring fish with computers, and the pros and cons of going viral. The official video for the salmon passage portal is two minutes long and can be found on Whooshh's Youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KcBQDcU9EM&ab_channel=WhooshhInnovations

For more videos, you can subscribe to Whooshh Innovations’ Youtube channel and follow them on social media:

Resources

The Whooshh Innovations Website: https://www.whooshh.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JustWhooshh

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justwhooshh/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JustWhooshh?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

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