Nebraskaland Magazine
From time to time I like to blog about some deep, science-stuff. I do not do it often, because I do not want to be boring. On the other hand, I know many of you have at least a passing interest in fisheries science and the work done by pointy-headed, fisheries biologists.
There is an overwhelming amount of scientific literature documenting everything related to fisheries science and the almost infinite number of fish species. Unfortunately, there is so much it is hard to keep up with it all. For certain, there is way more than a casual observer wants to know about.
However, I saw an announcement recently. It will give you an excellent idea of what I am talking about. The American Fisheries Society recently published the proceedings of the third international catfish symposium, Catfish 2020.
If you are interested, follow the link, and take a look at the titles. That will give you an idea of the breadth of fisheries research being done just on a variety of catfish species. Click on some abstracts, see what was done, what was learned. Go even deeper if you wish and read the whole article.
Yes, notice the catfish research that was done in Nebraska! I often hear that “all the good biologists work in other states”. Well, we know what is going on in other states, and they know what is going on in Nebraska!
The thing is, the more we know, the more questions we ask; the more we realize we don’t even know what we don’t know. But, science, fisheries science, marches on. We know a lot more now than we used to! That is good for our resources, and good for our fishing!
