Caverns to remove exotic fish from pond
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State Game and Fish officials will help staff members at Carlsbad Caverns National Park remove exotic fish and amphibians from the pond at Rattlesnake Springs.
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By JOHN FLESHER TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - It hardly seems fair, but new research suggests that water creatures nimble enough to avoid being gobbled up by predators may harm their species more than help.
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By Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune  Feb. 18--BIG BAY, Mich. -- Deep in the rugged hills of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a meandering river harbors giant fish that once thrived throughout Lake Superior and its tributaries.
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By Rachana Rathi, The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Sep. 16--The state Department of Environmental Protection says it has a way to help local fishermen catch more large trout. The fishermen say no thanks.
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  May 31--If you're heading to Horsethief, leave your big boat behind.   The Idaho Department of Fish and Game drained the reservoir last fall to remove illegally stocked yellow perch, and it hasn't refilled enough to make the boat ramps useable.
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A Royal Commission warns species are at risk unless steps are taken to close up to a third of UK fishing grounds.
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Saguaro National Park managers are trying to eliminate exotic plants that are threatening to crowd out native vegetation in the Sonoran Desert.
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By Lentz-Cipollini, Kendra A; Dunson, William A  ABSTRACT  Seventeen seasonal ponds in Pennsylvania containing the federally endangered northeastern bulrush, Scirpus ancistrochaetus, were sampled for water chemistry, hydrology, and plant population area.
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It hardly seems fair, but new research suggests that water creatures nimble enough to avoid being gobbled up by predators may harm their species more than help.
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By Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle  Feb. 8--They looked like modified crab traps, those dozen or so mesh-wire cages that appeared here and there in the shallows of the river slough I often fish.   I'd heard of these things -- turtle traps. They work somewhat like crab traps.
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By Chris Pollock, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Jun. 2--There is such a thing as deadly heat, as the residents of Freemansburg found out firsthand over this week when more than 100 dead fish appeared at the northern end of the Lehigh Canal in the borough.
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The bronze bowl seems unremarkable until you study it from above. Then, the shallow basin suddenly seems to teem with life: etchings of tiny tadpoles, turtles and fish wriggle across the bottom and up the sides, as if trapped in a real-life pond.
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By Anna King, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Sep. 23--NACHES -- It's no easy job to keep tiny fish out of irrigation ditches and on their migratory path to the ocean.   Especially when small salmon really like slower moving waterways that offer plentiful bugs and hiding places.
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By Kirsten Valle, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 10--Thousands of fish have died in Mecklenburg County ponds this  month after a spell of hot and dry weather, county officials said.
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Like some advanced race of moles, crews are boring a 3-mile-long tunnel under Rhode Island's capital city to capture raw sewage that is now jettisoned into waterways during heavy rains, often forcing authorities to close shellfish beds that are a lifeblood of the commercial fishing industry.
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An alien species of catfish has been caught in the Delaware Raritan Canal, prompting fears among environmental officials that the voracious predator could devastate native catfish, sunfish and some sturgeon populations the way it has in southeastern states.
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By PETER B. LORD  An expert on invasive species in marine waters will give the first lecture this year in the 2006-2007 Mark D. Gould Memorial Lecture Series sponsored by the Rhode Island Natural History Survey.