Over the past week Drs Colvin and Schumann of the fisheries management and aquatic conservation lab at Mississippi State University (R) had the unique opportunity to interact with the USFWS species status assessment framework implantation team (SSA-FIT) at a workshop in Tuscon, Arizona. The objective of the meaning was to... [Read More]

It’s been an absolute pleasure collaborating with US Fish and Wildlife Service researchers at Pvt John Allen Fish Hatchery and Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks! [Read More]

Every fisherman has a "honey hole," where they can get a good catch on almost any day of the year. However, as fish biologist we are after a good representation, not a "greatest hits." We might want to know, for example, the relationship between a species' presence and substrate particle... [Read More]

It’s been one week since we surgically implanted PIT tags into 36 Frecklebelly Madtoms. See image below. [Read More]

Yesterday the WFA4313 Fisheries Management class went out to a local stream to try to find some Southern Brook Lamprey Ichthyomyzon gagei. The gang did a 3 pass depletion on 95 meters of stream. Overall each pass took 1.2, 0.51, and 0.6 hours for each pass respectively. The catch varied... [Read More]