By: The Philosophical Fish|17 January, 2012|Categories: Just Thinking|Tags: aquaculture . environment . fish
An article written for Aquaculture North America (Jan/Feb 2012) by a well respected member of the aquatic sciences community, and worthy of passing on, mainly because the amount of misinformation in the media is overwhelming. Anatomy of Deception by Brad Hicks When anti-salmon farming activists announced the discovery of Infectious Salmon Anaemia Virus in British Columbia last fall it was…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|26 November, 2011|Categories: Just Thinking|Tags: aquaculture . critical thinking . fish
A wonderful article I stumbled on a few days ago. Regardless of who wrote it, it highlights the ridiculous buy-in that some extremists manage to get from normally, and otherwise, intelligent people. And there was a wonderful surprise in the comments that followed the article – an intelligent response from a former student. _____________________________________ North Island Gazette – Salmon face…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|08 September, 2011|Categories: 52 Weeks|Tags: 52 weeks . fish . photography
One of the male sockeye we captured and used for spawning. His genes will be passed on to the next generation via the caring hands of hatchery staff at Inch Creek.
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|16 August, 2011|Categories: Photo a Day - 2011|Tags: 365 . Daily Shoot . fish . photography
228/365 (August 16, 2011) – I’ve now been in my new job for 8 weeks. My fish health course is out of the way and I now have to create a new educational program for the community groups. But today was a field day. Another fellow and I jumped in the truck and headed out to the Valley for the…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|12 April, 2011|Categories: Photo a Day - 2011|Tags: 365 . critical thinking . Daily Shoot . fish . photography
102/365 – Sometimes I marvel at the links between birds and fish. They live in such different environments, but they share some cool similarities.
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|22 November, 2010|Categories: Photo a Day - 2010|Tags: 365 . fish . photography
By: The Philosophical Fish|14 October, 2010|Categories: Photo a Day - 2010|Tags: 365 . fish . photography
287/365 (October 14, 2010) – On the way back home to Vancouver we took a detour up to Adam’s River to see the sockeye salmon. This year is a dominant cycle year. Every four years the largest run returns to the Fraser River, and the Adam’s River run is one of the largest. In recent years the runs have been…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|30 January, 2010|Categories: Photo a Day - 2010|Tags: 365 . fish . photography
It was a cruddy Saturday and so what better thing to do than visit the Vancouver Aquarium and spend some time in the Amazon. Beats hanging out in the drizzle. In 2004, just weeks after defencing my PhD thesis I had the good fortune to travel to Brazil for a conference and a subsequent boat trip up the Amazon above…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|29 October, 2009|Categories: Food Mood . Just Thinking|Tags: fish . food & drink
Ever had one of those days when you wished you hadn’t picked up the phone? I just did. I received some bad news, news I’d been expecting for about 6 months, but hoped wouldn’t come. There is a reason I call myself an optimistic pessimist. I hope for the best, but I always expect the worst, and over the past…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|22 May, 2008|Categories: Just Thinking|Tags: fish . Travel
I had the opportunity to visit several research sites in the Broughton Archipelago yesterday. We flew in and around the area in a small Beaver airplane for most of the day and set down first at a farm site that is currently fallow, but where University researchers are looking at the physiology of juvenile pinks salmon infected with sea lice.…
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