Fishes of Lake Waccamaw, Columbus County, North Carolina
Let’s start this blog off with a slew of questions: Regardless if you know all the answers to these questions or do not know any of the answers, come along … Read more
The Fishes of North Carolina
Let’s start this blog off with a slew of questions: Regardless if you know all the answers to these questions or do not know any of the answers, come along … Read more
In North Carolina, the Freshwater Drum, Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 1819 (Figure 1), is indigenous to the western Mountain river basins where until recently, had been known from only a handful … Read more
Christopher Scharpf of the ETYFish Project (https://etyfish.org/) recently posted a revised guide to zoological nomenclature (see attached pdf file). His essay is an introduction to zoological nomenclature illustrated with names … Read more
Written by Holly Kays, Smoky Mountain News, Waynesville, NC, Wednesday, August 09, 2023 The Little Tennessee River isn’t deep as it flows through the patchwork Needmore Game Lands near the … Read more
Written by Holly Kays, Smoky Mountain News, Waynesville, NC, Wednesday, August 02, 2023 When the impending closure of Canton’s paper mill was announced in March, conservation professionals predicted a swift … Read more
Submitted by Bryn H. Tracy and Brena K. Jones Reprinted from the Summer 2023 Issue of the Newsletter of the North Carolina Chapter of the American Fisheries Society On the … Read more
Luke Etchison, Dylan Owensby, and Chantelle Rondel North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Aquatic Wildlife Diversity Program, Waynesville, NC The French Broad River (Map 1) is one of the oldest rivers … Read more
Fritz Rohde1, Bryn H. Tracy2, and Michael Fisk3 1Wilmington, NC; 2Apex, NC; 3North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Aquatic Wildlife Diversity Program, Mebane, NC The American Brook Lamprey, Lethenteron appendix (Dekay, … Read more
By the NCFishes.com Team The New River basin, in the extreme northwest corner of North Carolina, is one of the smallest river basins in the state with a drainage area … Read more
By the NCFishes.com Team How did this fish, the smallest member of the Stickleback family, get here? And when? As written in our previous blog on sticklebacks (https://ncfishes.com/is-north-carolina-too-far-south-for-sticklebacks/), Dr. Hugh … Read more