Fish

Bull trout are a char of the Salmonidae family (salmon and trout) that are native to the Pacific Northwest. They inhabit cold clear waters of the mountains and coastal rivers in the Yukon, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho (not coastal here!).  The species used to occur in northern California but is no longer found […]

This is an eastern U.S. fish – I went to undergraduate (NJ) and graduate school (MD) back east and worked back there for another 8 years (with one summer in AK) before I landed back in Seattle for good, so I’ll throw in some interesting eastern species now and then. The Percidae family includes the

This is an eastern U.S. fish – I went to undergraduate (NJ) and graduate school (MD) back east and worked back there for another 8 years (with one summer in AK) before I landed back in Seattle for good, so I’ll throw in some interesting eastern species now and then. The Percidae family includes the

If cod and haddock and other species cannot survive because man kills them, something more adaptable will take their place. Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us.   -Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed

..after we encamped a little Indian boy caugh several chubbs with a bone in this form which he substituted for a hook.  these fish were of about 9 inches long small head large abdomen, small where the tail joined the body, the tail wide long in proportion and forked.  the back and ventral fins were equadistant