We’ve come full circle now, and anglers around Melbourne are incensed that trout are about to be purged from Australian waters.
The popular game fish has been declared an alien species and put on a hit-list for eradication in a move that has outraged anglers.
Trout would be culled from major Victorian rivers such as [...]

The grocery clerk was ill prepared for Singlebarbed repartee, he’d asked whether I wanted “paper or plastic,” and I’d responded, “ choose between a Pterodactyl or a pine tree? You pick, let the guilt be on your conscience.. ”
From now on I’ll be much gentler, he still percolates his coffee, mine has the bark on..
I’ll decimate Pine trees until [...]

It’s the tertiary phase of plundering a communal resource, tensions around the globe are escalating mightily around fishing and fishermen.
North and South Korea got into a shoving match at Panmunjom, the Russians have just confiscated Japanese trawlers, and even Croatia is about to lay claim to parts of the Adriatic. Little wonder that boorish [...]

I was only kidding about the “too-big” trout for pike to eat, it appears the Department of Fish and Game was paying attention however, as they’ve just planted 33,000 pounds of 2-4lb Eagle Lake rainbows in Lake Davis.
Actually it was the American River hatchery that pressed the issue, as the trout earmarked to restock [...]

Thin the prey to benefit the predator? Somehow it sounds all wrong, but Swedish scientists suggest it’s one way to reestablish a predatory fish whose numbers have dwindled.
Scientists found that culling older, larger prey fish can lead to more small fish for predators to dine on, even though the overall number of prey decline.
Makes [...]

Recent data from the Millennium Assessment suggests that there’s some unseen agents at work contributing to the decline of historic wildlife populations and species. Man is the root cause, but the conversion of land to agrarian usage replaces resident wildlife with an artificial ecosystem that is less diverse.

Scientists suggest the increased conversion of land in [...]

Males appear to be more sensitive to pollution than females. Areas of the world are experiencing a decline in male children with pollution thought to be the agent. Dioxins and Estrogen have shown the same effect in both people and fish, perhaps this is the start of a long term trend.

Water is the “cause celebre” for the Singlebarbed editorial staff, and keeping an eye on the tenuous arrangement unfolding in Georgia (as a precursor to what we all may experience), suggests the issue may be headed for the courts.
A tentative arrangement brokered by the Bush administration, between Georgia, Florida, and Alabama, looks like it may [...]

The Partnership for Sustainable Oceans has released a draft plan for Northern California Marine Life Protection Areas (MLPA) for consideration by the California Department of Fish and Game.
You may remember an early post on the Southern California Marine Preserves, this new plan is in response to the next round of legislated sanctuaries, covering Mendocino [...]

A billion dollar fund to restore fish, but don’t expect any dams to be breached. That’s the gist of the NOAA’s third draft of the plan for the Columbia and Snake watersheds:
The draft plan would provide new equipment to detour fish around deadly dam turbines, manage spills to better match when fish are present, fine-tune [...]