June 7, 2013Teaming up to Tackle Invasive Species
By Tim Campbell
The tournament project continues into 2013 and I attended my first tournament of the year last weekend in Oconto, Wisconsin. Each year of the project has seen some evolution. We started with just simple observations at the tournaments. We then moved into engaging more of the anglers with the Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers pledge and the tournament organizers with our best management practices. This year we will be taking things a step further and engaging local support groups in efforts to help tournaments prevent the spread of AIS.
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- June 7, 2013
MWC Oconto 2013, a set on Flickr.
UW Sea Grant’s Jeremy Jones—also known as @spinywaterjay— heads to Fond du Lac this weekend, there to spread the Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers! message at the Mercury Marine Nationals fishing tournament.
Before he begins reporting back, take a minute to appreciate some photos from last weekend’s Cabela’s Masters Tournament in Oconto.
- June 5, 2013
UW Sea Grant videograher John Karl hung out with invasive species specialists Tim Campbell and Jeremy Jones at last weekend’s Cabela;a Masters Walleye Circuit tournament in Oconto, Wis. He captured some video for a project he’ll complete later this year.
- June 5, 2013
Shallow Shipwreck: Surveying Davidson’s Adriatic
By Aaron R. Conklin
It’s sitting in 14 feet of water, but it contains more than 120 years of history. This week, the uncovering begins.
Backed by funding from the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute, a pair of maritime archaeologists with the Wisconsin Historical Society lead a team of divers who’ll survey the wreck of the Adriatic, a 202-foot wooden schooner retired and abandoned off the piers of the Bay Shipbuilding Co. in Sturgeon Bay. The Adriatic is one of several ships built by the legendary timber magnate James Davidson, who continued to build and sail massive wooden vessels during the late 1800s, when others had moved on to iron and steel.
For the next two weeks, the team, led by Tamara Thomsen and Chad Gulseth, will spend their days measuring, sketching, photographing and mapping the Adriatic, a three-masted schooner barge built in 1889 and eventually converted to a self-unloading barge in 1914. The team includes 30 Maritime Studies graduate students from East Carolina University, including Caitlyn Zant, whose participation in the survey project is being funded by UW Sea Grant.
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- May 29, 2013
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