Fisherwomen

Ralph Lampman, Lamprey Project Biologist for the Yakama Nation, wants to spread love and understanding of Pacific Lamprey. We talk about their long evolutionary and cultural history, the many unknowns surrounding lamprey, and the efforts tribes are taking to restore these remarkable fish back to the vibrant fishery they once were! Check out his music video for this year’s Eurofishion contest here, and give him a vote! https://eurofishion.com/portfolio-item/west-coast-lamprey-rap-arctic-lamprey-rap-ralph-lampman-hiroaki-arakawa-kenji-hashizume-usa/

I also encourage you to watch the two short films on lamprey listed in the resources at the bottom of the show notes. You can also stay up to date on lamprey issues by following the Yakama Nation’s Facebook page on Pacific Lamprey: https://www.facebook.com/pacificlampreycolumbiabasin/

You can learn more follow MC Hannon on twitter here: https://twitter.com/__emsea

Resources

Yakama Nation Lamprey Project: https://yakamafish-nsn.gov/restore/projects/pacific-lamprey-project

The Columbia River Intertribal Fisheries Council page on lamprey, including a wonderful 5 minute film presented at the American Fisheries Society Film Festival on the importance of Pacific Lamprey to Columbia Basin Tribes: https://www.critfc.org/fish-and-watersheds/columbia-river-fish-species/lamprey/

Film put together by Ralph Lampman using music by Ryuichi Sakamoto: The plight and curious life of asum (Pacific Lamprey) *asum is the Sahaptin language for Pacific Lamprey (https://vimeo.com/242105080)

Identification Guide for Lamprey Species in the American West, authored by Ralph Lampman: https://www.fws.gov/pacificlamprey/Documents/Identification%20Guides/2017%20Lamprey%20Identification%20Guide%20Final.pdf

Manual on Incorporating Lamprey considerations into fish passage projects (ODFW): https://fws.gov/oregonfwo/Documents/Lamprey/2017.06.20%20LampreyPsgFINAL.pdf

This week I speak with Jen Ripple, founder and editor-in-chief of DUN magazine, about what brought her to flyfishing and why she decided to found the first flyfishing magazine for women. You can subscribe to DUN here: https://dunmagazine.com/ This episode marks the first in a series on flyfishing. I’ll be learning to flyfish this season and I invite you to join me! Follow fisherwomen on social media to stay up to date with the flyfishing journey! The creature feature this week comes from Marshall Phan and is on the Scaly Foot Snail. References for today’s creature feature are listed below.

Credits: Thank you to Rick Pope for allowing use of the great photo of Jen with a Jack Crevalle. Theme mixed by me, using sounds sourced from sfxgo, orangefreesound, and freesound. Please see website for full credits.

Fly Fishing Resources:

Jen’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

References on the Scaly Foot Snail :

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/deep-sea-snail-iron-shell-first-creature-declared-endangered-ocean-mining-180972727/ https://www.wired.com/2015/02/absurd-creature-of-the-week-scaly-foot-snail/ https://www.pnas.org/content/116/41/20376 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15522-3

On this episode, I speak with Bonnie Basnett about collaborating with sportfishing guides, fieldwork logistics, and why lingcod are super rad. Sea urchins are also pretty rad, as we learn in this week’s creature feature from Cari Williams. If you'd like to see Bonnie with a lingcod, look no further than the cover photo for the episode! Check out Bonnie’s latest paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/eva.13037 and follow her to see her ocean inspired artwork and learn some cool science facts at: https://www.instagram.com/artbybonbon/

Cari’s thesis is available for free here: http://humboldt-dspace.calstate.edu/handle/10211.3/175352

Credits: Thank you to Bonnie Basnett for allowing use of the great photo of her in the field with a turquoise morph lingcod. Theme mixed by me, using sounds sourced from sfxgo, orangefreesound, and freesound. Please see website for full credits. Thank you.

Resources: 

Descending devices and barotrauma (https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Marine/Groundfish/Barotrauma), 

Lingcod (http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/csas/Csas/status/2001/A6-18e.pdf; https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/06/17/322920045/red-fish-blue-fish-where-the-fish-flesh-rainbow-comes-from),

California Collaborative Fisheries Research Program (https://www.mlml.calstate.edu/ccfrp/about/),

The Love Lab at UC Santa Barbara, an excellent place to while away the hours on the internet, while almost certainly learning too much about rockfish (https://lovelab.msi.ucsb.edu/)