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Scientists link climate change and Atlantic croaker fishery

A new climate-population model developed by NOAA scientists to study rising ocean temperatures and fishing rates on one East Coast fish population could also forecast the impact of climate change and ...
Gizmodo

Here’s One of the Creepiest Things You Could Catch While Fishing

Wildlife officials in Texas found a fish with its tongue cut off and replaced by a crustacean parasite—all part of the circle of life. Reading time 2 minutes Wildlife officials in Texas recently ...
KSAT

Tongue-eating creature found inside fish at Texas state park is the stuff of nightmares

Tongue-eating louse or ‘snapper-choking isopod’ are somewhat common among certain species of fish, like Atlantic croaker (as pictured), spotted seatrout, and a few species of snapper. (Texas Parks and ...
The Washington Post

Deep Sea Cold Cited In Fish Kill

Up and down the beach at Ocean City, they washed ashore: dead fish, rotten and smelly, victims of what scientists believe was a sudden shift in the temperature of the ocean. More than a million ...
JSTOR Daily

Modeling the Population Effects of Hypoxia on Atlantic Croaker (Micropogonias undulatus) in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico: Part 2—Realistic Hypoxia and Eutrophication

Kenneth A. Rose, Sean Creekmore, Dubravko Justić, Peter Thomas, J. Kevin Craig, Rachael Miller Neilan, Lixia Wang, Md Saydur Rahman and David Kidwell Estuaries and Coasts Vol. 41, No. 1, Special ...
Houston Chronicle

'Spooky' tongue-eating parasite found in fish at Galveston Island State Park

Officials with Galveston Island State Park recently came across a "spooky" discovery: a fish with a beady-eyed creature staring out from its mouth. The unsuspecting fish, an Atlantic Croaker, had ...
USA Today

When nightmares are real: Photo shows a parasite that ate – and then replaced – a fish's tongue

A Texas state park shared a seemingly unreal photo of a fish whose tongue was eaten by a parasite – and then the parasite replaced the organ altogether. “MARTIAN SPOTTED AT GALVESTON ISLAND STATE PARK ...
Newsweek

‘Martian’ Parasite Masquerading As Fish Tongue Found in Texas Park

A post shared online by Galveston Island State Park has taught some Texans about the existence of a common parasite that terrifyingly replaces the tongues of fish. The parasite, which the park ...
foxsanantonio

Spooky-looking parasite found inside fish's mouth

GALVESTON, Texas - Just in time for Halloween, Texas Parks and Wildlife spotted a really spooky-looking parasite inside a fish's mouth. It is truly the stuff of nightmares. "Inside this Atlantic ...
The Washington Post

Fish Lines Water temperatu ...

Water temperatures are much higher than normal throughout the mid-Atlantic region. Chesapeake and Delaware bays recorded surface temperatures topping 80 degrees during the past week, while the ...
The Press of Atlantic City

Daily Shep on Fishing report: Some nice sized croaker can be found

Steve Bent operates the charterboat Free Spirit from the new Margate Sport Fishing Center at Captain Andy's Marina during the summer and from Utsch's Marina in Cape May in spring and fall. He is in a ...