AK fish nerd. Piscivore. Jiu jitsu black belt. Former Hokie/Spartan. Co-host of Fish of the Week! #AllTheFish All things #fishing #teamfish

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Prized for their blue spot and legendary as bait, the Fat Sleeper is valued wherever it is: judging you from your aquarium, breathing air from the top of its head, predicting storms, or unlocking nutrients from mangroves 🐟⛈️ fws.gov/fish-of-the-week-pod… 📷 Fletcher Stone CC BY-NC 4.0
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DYK America is the primary home to almost #allthefish in the sucker family Catostomidae (78 species)? We're pleased to introduce you to one of them: the beautiful, bejeweled Golden Redhorse. Catch the episode later today: fws.gov/fish-of-the-week-pod… 📷 Courtesy Drew Geving
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Get to know the Emerald Bowfin 🐟 New episode later today wherever you catch your podcasts!🎣fws.gov/fish-of-the-week-pod… This amazing native fish is: ✅ Always hungry ✅ Always angry ✅ One of the gamest fish to catch ✅ A dedicated parent ✅ A living dinosaur 📷 Griffin Blegen
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Get to know the American Star Drum: an abundant, silvery little bulldog-faced fish that feeds everything from popular sportfish to beloved birds and dolphins! ✨🥁🐟 fws.gov/fish-of-the-week-pod… Star Drum. 📷 Vince Golder CC BY-NC 4.0 Georgia salt marsh. 📷 Bryan Fleuch
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Get to know the Brook Trout of the Southern Appalachians! 🐟 Head to North Carolina to learn about where to find this fish, its habits, & how folks with non-fish day jobs are making a difference. fws.gov/fish-of-the-week-pod… The NC Brook Trout scene 📷 Tyler Pait/used with permission
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Meet the beautiful Watercress Darter! This week we're heading to Birmingham, Alabama: an urban space with both a rich industrial history and well-stewarded freshwater oases that hold this precious endangered fish. Listen to the story: fws.gov/fish-of-the-week-pod… 🐟💎🎣 #AllTheFish
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Meet the Blackbanded Sunfish, a beautiful and rare native species found in pockets of blackwater habitats along the east coast. Guests this week from @MarylandDNR. Catch this episode later today: fws.gov/fish-of-the-week-pod…🎣 📷 Michael Zambardino CC BY-NC 4.0 #AllTheFish
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Meet the Trout-Perch. It's neither trout nor perch, though, but rather one of only two species in the genus Percopsis. Discover #AllTheFish 🐟🎣🎧 fws.gov/fish-of-the-week-pod… (new episodes every Monday!) 📷 Freshwater Conservation Canada (CC BY-NC-SA) #Freedom250
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From scaling waterfalls to farming algae, Hawaii’s native ‘o’opu gobies embody a mauka to makai (mountains to sea) way of living: fws.gov/fish-of-the-week-pod… nōpili 📷 Jules Wyman CC BY-NC 4.0 nākea📷 Cody Chicon ‘alamo‘o and 'akupa 📷 Cory Yap naniha (not pictured) #AllTheFish
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Meet the invasive Round Goby (suction cup & black dot on dorsal fin). Not to be confused with native Mottled Sculpin or Johnny Darter. 👀 fws.gov/fish-of-the-week-pod… 1-2. Round Goby 📷Suzanne Labbé & Jaehyoung 3. Mottled Sculpin 📷lordsuperbeast 4. Johnny Darter 📷Cameron Layne
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Per listener request, get to know the fish so nice they named it twice: the Mahi-mahi/Dolphinfish! fws.gov/fish-of-the-week-pod… 🐟🎣 Mahi-mahi schooling 📷 Luis Pérez Berrocal (iNaturalist / CC BY-NC 4.0) Tagged and released Mahi-mahi in different color phases 📷 Wess Merten
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Meet the River Chub! 🤩 With a big pink head adorned with tubercles during the spawning season, males move thousands of rocks. Other fish rely on their nests, making Nocomis chub species very important indeed. 🐟 fws.gov/fish-of-the-week-pod… 📷 Charlie Mellor CC-by-NC 4.0 #AllTheFish
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Meet the gem of central Texas: the Guadalupe Bass! 🐟 Native only to clear, groundwater-influenced streams of Texas Hill Country, this spunky bass is an amazing catch fws.gov/fish-of-the-week-pod… Bald cypress trees frame a headwater stream where Guadalupe Bass live. 📷 Chris Johnson
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Meet the Bluemask Darter! Head to Tennessee with podcast hosts Katrina and Guy guests Bo Baxter and Derek Wheaton to understand the habits and history of this tiny cog and wheel in our amazing, beautiful world. fws.gov/fish-of-the-week-pod… 📷 Derek Wheaton/Conservation Fisheries
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This baby fish is sharper than your kid's back-to-school #2 pencil! ✏️ This week we chat with Ed Baker from @MichiganDNR to learn about where this fish lives, its history, and what it needs to thrive: fws.gov/fish-of-the-week-pod…. New episodes every Monday! 📷 Sam Stukel/USFWS
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How many spots does a Kenai River Rainbow Trout have? Dare you to count them. 🐟🌈 How many ways are there to access, float, & fish the Kenai? Also a lot! 🎣 New episodes by end-of-day every Monday wherever you get your podcasts fws.gov/fish-of-the-week-pod… 📷 Mitch Paisker
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Get to know Utah's cutthroat trout...complete the slam and catch all four subspecies! 🐟🎣Listen: fws.gov/fish-of-the-week-pod…. Send your thoughts & we'll read your questions, ideas and feedback on our "fanmail darter" segment. Bonneville #CutthroatTrout 📷 Clint Wirick/USFWS
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Fish of the Week podcast fans: we had a request to feature spot shrimp! What better fish than Yelloweye Rockfish to help illustrate the life of this fascinating crustacean while keeping to our weekly fish theme! Catch the latest episode: fws.gov/fish-of-the-week-pod… 🐟🦐 #AllTheFish
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