What about the current drought… should we be worried?

6/24/2021

In the current climate emergency, fish are the marker. If we can keep them alive and well, we have hope.

These rainbow trout are sheltering under a Biohaven floating island, where they find security and shade

Trout shelter under a BioHaven floating island to find security and shade

It’s not even July yet and a new heat wave is developing, due in just a few days. We’ve already broken heat records for the year a dozen times, and more record-breaking heat day are coming!

Climate change changes everything when it comes to stewardship of water and fish. Is this the tip of the iceberg? What iceberg? It’s melted.

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BioHavens and Bass

5/18/2021

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Fishing for bass among BioHavens is an exciting strategy for algae reduction on Fish Fry Lake

A smiling woman holds up a stringer of large bass harvested from Fish Fry Lake

The first three bass from Fish Fry Lake to be harvested in 2021 in our "grow fish instead of algae" stewardship program

It’s just now mid-May and our water temperature has finally edged over 60 degrees, on top. Fish Fry Lake went through its seasonal turnover a month ago, so dissolved oxygen (DO) was homogenous across the water table for a few weeks. When that happened, bass were everywhere in the lake, top to bottom, even in its deepest reaches where DO normally diminishes as the season progresses. We fished spoon plugs, minnow and crawfish imitations. The use of “plastics” started yesterday, those plastic worms, probably imitating leeches, that seem to trigger insane bass action. The official beginning of the new season started with a big bang!

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Three Ways To Grow Fish... Or Not

5/11/2021

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Floating Islands Help Fish Grow and Prevent Algae from Growing

A nice stringer of bass caught in BioHaven-enhanced Fish Fry Lake

Of the nearly 10,000 BioHaven floating islands launched since Floating Island International opened its doors in 2005, a sizable number have been focused on fishery enhancement. People like myself, who grew up with a fishing pole in their hands, pick up on the idea that nature can be helped. Nature can be enhanced. Building an ultimate fishing hole, or supporting a public fishery with good habitat design, has motivated many island launches. But there’s usually only a vague understanding of just how floating islands help fish grow. For certain, the other two popular methods to grow fish are better understood. But are they better for water?