Intro: 5-10m

Prizes and consolation prizes-have everyone except Kevin.  Kevin get a hold of me love your bit on reel arrogance!

I am on it

FITN:  Klamath River Dam Removal

https://apnews.com/article/klamath-dam-california-removal-restoration-473a570024584c2e02837434e05693da

https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/08/klamath-river-dams-demolition/#:~:text=But%20now%20these%20vestiges%20of,state%20line%20will%20be%20gone.

Teen Arrested For Taping Fish To ATMs: KSL says a Provo, Utah teen was recently charged for taping fish to ATMs around town. The teen's Instagram account, "fish_bandit84," gained a following of 52,000 people. Police believe his fish videos were meant as a joke and to gain followers. The teenager once taped a fish to a Provo police car. He caused minimal damage. 

Wisconsin Free Fishing Weekend:

https://www.onfocus.news/free-fishing-weekend-jan-20-21/

totoba Fish Laundering:

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-12-07/advocates-say-a-mexican-startup-is-illegally-selling-a-health-drink-from-an-endangered-fish

Below is a wikipedia entry about totoaba and why it is an endangered species.  The damming and overuse of the Colorado River has changed the salinity of the totoaba spawning grounds.  That is severely affecting the totoaba population.  They are a slow growing fish that does not spawn until it is 6-7 years old. Also, the Chinese use totoaba bladders in “traditional medicine” which can sell for 20,000 each. Their own related species the bahaba is in very short supply so they have switched to totaba.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totoaba

Doc and the Fish Kill Boys: 

1. More information about fish kill causes can be found at: https:/ /ksoutdoors.com/Fishing/Special-Fishing-Programs-for-You/Pond-

Management-Program/ Producing-Fish-and-Wildlife-in-Kansas-Ponds

2. If there appears to be a harmful algal bloom (HAB) present at an HOA or private owner pond information can be found at the Small Business Environmental Compliance Assistance page posted by the K-State University Pollution Prevention Institute at: https:// www.sbeap.org/

3. If a citizen suspects a harmful algal bloom is present on a public water body (creek, river, pond, or lake), HABs can be reported to KDHE via an ArcIS survey123 survey found on KDHE's HAB webpage at:

https://www.kdhe.ks.gov/777 /Harmful-Algal-Blooms

4. Fish kills can be reported to the 1 of the 6 District Office. Contacts for KDHE can be found at the KDHE webpage, google KDHE AND district offices: https://www.kdheks.gov/288/District-Offices

Rex’s Bluefish Story

Music for Fish Kill Boys-Audionautix “Heavy Action” with comic lyric by John “Crappie Hippie” King

“Fish Kill, Fish Kill, the Rainbow Fish was murdered by industrial swill,

No D.O., Nowhere to go, suffocated, belly up, they’ll swim no more,

Fish Kill, what if you had gills? We sow our own destruction Fish Kill!” (big explosion, black confetti rains down)

Minnesota Species Angler -  Shark Attacks & Clay is  TV Star   328

Clay was in an episode teaching about foraging with Explore New England -the Greening of the Whites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hRVagrpHvE

FISH IN THE NEWS LINKS 

https://www.ksl.com/article/50834248/utah-monitoring-popular-reservoir-after-finding-illegally-introduced-fish-

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-12-04/american-tourist-killed-in-shark-attack-in-bahamas-police-say

https://www.wbrc.com/2024/01/05/man-strips-jumps-into-fish-tank-bass-pro-shops-leeds/

Cayden and Chad Hutmacher are on an epic angling quest, follow along on their Yout Tube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@thingschrisdoes9779/videos