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
Collecting Trip
Face-to-Face with Fish – Blue Ridge Snorkel Trail Celebrates Kickoff
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
‘Hard To Believe’: Downstream Fish Populations Explode Following Mill Closure
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
Cape Fear Shiner Augmentation – Part II
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
Bringing Back the Natives: Reintroduction of Three Sucker Species in the Upper French Broad River
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
Distribution of American Brook Lamprey, Lethenteron appendix, in North Carolina
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
Biologists Continue Sicklefin Redhorse Recovery Effort in the Little Tennessee River Watershed
A Candidate Conservation Agreement (CCA) was finalized in 2015 for the undescribed Sicklefin Redhorse, Moxostoma sp., and was signed by primary partners: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), North Carolina … Read more
Territorial and mating calls of the Sheepshead Minnow – Cyprinodon variegatus
Acoustic signals of the Sheepshead Minnow, Cyprinodon variegatus.
Campostoma anomalum Video
I’ve collected tons of video over the years, mostly from GoPros and cellphones. In an attempt to both share some of these videos, and to free up tons of storage … Read more
Sargassum Community
This article was written in June 2015, and published in July 2015. Today I wanted to share a collecting trip of a different sort: sargassum sampling. Sargassum … Read more