Newspaper article about my Field Course

Kudos, Ken! It's always great to get a bit of face time in the media. It's an interesting article, too - a plug for field biology, a dig at stuffy ivory tower research, and a guide to eating fish, all in one package.

More importantly, though, kudos for putting together that fieldwork course. I find that immersion experiences like that can really be turning points for students.

All the best,

- Mike
 
WTG !! Soon folks'll be asking for your autograph !! Just don't forget us little folk, when you become a big realty star !!:D

Seriously congrats, and thanks for sharing the knowledge with our younger generation !!:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
 
Good stuff Ken!!! So do you guys eat the fish after you study them?

Thats one of the better pics of you I think....:p
 
tonym said:
Good stuff Ken!!! So do you guys eat the fish after you study them?

Thats one of the better pics of you I think....:p
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I'm the one with the hat, the other one is a fish :D

Thanks....Aside from a couple little things e.g. use of the word marine instead of freshwater, they did a pretty good job on the article. You sometimes never know how it will turn out. It really is a fun course to teach. Just two more days of it and I'm done - will be glad for it to end too!
 
A weeks fishing on a boat with a bunch of sexy young students and being able to call it work......your the man Ken !!!!!
 
That is pretty cool! But, you are secretly the one being held, right? I mean, you can't be the one in the background.. :D
 
richard j said:
thats not a bad picture.


(are the fish safe to eat)?
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Not a bad picture at all. Well, it's a nice hat, anyway. :)


According to the article, the fish are POLLUTED ! but not as badly as years ago.According to another article there, Great Lakes fish seem even worse: http://www.windsorstar.com/technolo...tion+Environmental+Defence/1778165/story.html


Mentor is right, these are the classes we remember. My third year of high school, we got a wildlife biologist for a biology teacher. Less lab work but after-school walks through local woods and swamps. Mud mud mud. But I still do it, for fun now instead of credits.
 
Good sleuthing Esav!

The press release by Environmental Defence is touch misleading. The are indeed more fish advisories in place (in Canada) now than there were in 2005. This isn't because of changes in the degree of pollution of waters or fish tissus, but because Health Canada lowered its threshold triggers for issuing advice information. The former minimum trigger for issuing a fish advisory due to PCBs in 2004 and earlier was 500 ng/g wet fillet weight. In 2005 the trigger was lowered to 153 ng/g and in 2009 it was lowered again to 105 ng/g wet weight in skinless dorsal fillets. So contaminants are not really decreasing, they are stable, but there are more advisories issues today than there were in 2004 and 2005.

Mind you, most of the advisories are restrictions on how much fish you can eat e.g. 8 meals /month or 4 meals/month depending on the species and size. There are few very severe restrictions, i.e. 'Do Not Eat'. In the Detroit River the only advisories of Do Not Eat are in place for the general public: Carp (>20" in length); white bass (>14" length) and channel catfish (>16" in length).

However, more restrictive advice information is given for women of childbearing age and children under the age of 15. There are a much larger number of species listed in the advice information booklet that the sensitive human sub-population should refrain from eating.
 
Have you been watching those Bass fishing shows?

Holding the fish out at arms lenght does not make it look bigger when you got both hands on it. Ya gotta lip it! :D

Congrats Ken! :thumbup:

cs
 
Cool, and congrats. You should come down here and do that. They are continually doing this here because of the industry and power plants....but I'd love to here the findings of someone who understands but isn't on the state payroll.
 
Ken, it’s like the story of my life.

Where ever I go and feast on nature’s bounty, the government decides it toxic.

Be it the oyster that grow on trees in Florida’s everglades, the striped bass from Long Island Sound or the trout from my local river; it will all kill me in sufficient quantities.

But then again, so will too much exposure to the sun.

I have decided it’s best to live off the land, and to have a good time, before I let the land live off me (ashes to ashes and dust to dust, and all that stuff).



Big Mike

”Scaring the tree huggers.”

Forest & Stream
 
That's a Good Article Ken "You Got a Great Job/Prefesion, It's Real Sad that our Waterway's Lake's- River's- Stream's and the Sea's & Ocean's are Toxic/Polluted and the Future Is'nt Good, Our EPA Is a Joke !
 
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