Eddies, Fall 2008, is online

The Fall 2008 issue of Eddies: Reflections of Fisheries Conservation,
published by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is now online.

In this issue, the scientific and technological capabilities of fisheries
science are on display. You’ll learn how scientists use cryogenics,
genetics, nutrition, disease pathology – and the written word in scientific
literature - to conserve game fishes and seriously imperiled fishes.

If you want to know how the American shad makes a living, read the
“American Fishes” story by shad angler and scribe, T. Edward Nickens.

H. Dale Hall, Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, ponders his
home waters, 30 years of experience around fish and bugs, and the future in
his back-page “Meanders” story.

You’ll want to read about the Apostle of the Black Bass . . . or was that
the Dean of American Anglers? History professor, Dr. Todd Larson, gives us
a slice of James Henshall’s life and accomplishments as a medical doctor,
fisheries scientist, and angler in “Pioneers.”

Veterinarian and fish biologist, Robert Bakal, writes about the serious
declines of frogs and toads from the fungal disease, chytridiomycosis, and
what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is doing about it, in "Fighting the
Amphibian Fungus."

John Tertuliani muses on the art work and life of the late Bob Hines. You
can sense a stick bait about to drop on his northern pike lurking on the
cover of Eddies; you’ll see more of his great work inside the magazine.

"Watermarks" has the newsy and noteworthy, and you’ll find it all here at
http://www.fws.gov/eddies/