The California Department of Fish and Game will be detaining all boats on Interstate 5 on May 22nd and 23rd in Tehama County. All trailered boats will be subject to a Quagga and Zebra mussel inspection by department biologists and trained detection dogs.

Apparently there’s more species in Cache Creek than I’ve thought - I’m considering attending the Cache Creek walk, a 3 day - 17 mile jaunt through much of the Cache Creek basin, complete with scientists and ecology buffs.

Alert to trends in fly fishing, fish, and tackle - we’re just going to have to point the bat at the left field fence, so’s you can flock to the cutting edge…
It’s the next great “Urban Safari” - pools teeming with voracious, predatory fish and only you know about them. It’s light tackle and gossamer […]

Recent photographs from Borneo depict evidence of Orangutan fishing with a spear. A rare photo proving that tool usage in primates is more common than once thought.

We’ve seen clothes that can store and generate power, what’s always been in doubt is what we need the power for….
The Boys at MIT have answered part of the mystery with the HCID (Handwear Computer Input Device), a glove based computer interface currently destined for the military.
“Old Guys” use fishing to “get away from it all” […]

The California department of fish and game will be trucking this year’s salmon smolts around the Delta pumps to pens in San Pablo Bay. There they’ll be acclimated to saltwater, then released. Tiny tags will be added to their nose to trace their origins and learn where they were ultimately caught.

It’s the best advice I’ve seen to date and based on our track record would work swimmingly, the downside is you’d have to develop a taste for Zebra Mussel Meatloaf, or Quagga Milkshake.
“How to handle an invasive species? Eat it” - an article from the NY Times suggesting there’s something we can do about […]

PETA offers 1 million dollars for someone to invent the next great fake meat. Assuming they’ll make it from something without feelings like parsnips or asparagus, whose stem cells will they harvest the lard genes from? It’s not meat unless the medical community is warning you off it - or is it?

Fisheries research suggest the older mature fish should be released and angling regulations changed to allow only young fish be taken. Maturity is necessary to fish populations - and youth is less so. Makes us old guys feel good, but college cheerleaders won’t change their preference anytime soon.

I figured carp and bass would still be plentiful and assumed I could move to Canada before they close the borders. 
We’ve known the Cockroach is a survivor, and now it’ll have company - as the CO2 enriched atmosphere is building a Poison Ivy superstrain.
New research shows the rash-inducing plant appears to be growing faster […]