Dad/husband + hunter/angler/guide/hiker/brewer/curling. Professor of Biology @MemorialU, Past-Pres @CARSAFS, Director Salmonid Assoc Eastern NFLD. Tweets=mine.
St. John's, NL, Canada
Joined November 2013
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Gave this seminar yesterday for the Foundation for Conservation of Atlantic Salmon
youtube.com/watch?v=bAqY28eO…
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The biggest event of the #GSOC season is here! 🥌🤘
The KIOTI National is taking over St. John’s from Nov. 26 – Dec. 1, and it’s going to be EPIC. The world’s best teams will battle it out on the ice, and the fans will bring the energy like never before. 🔥
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#LetsRock #Curling
These rare and mysterious deepsea fish are washing up in California, and no one's sure why | CBC Radio cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/doo…
“Unprecedented” Atlantic Salmon Symposium Happening in New Brunswick | VOCM vocm.com/2024/10/22/atlantic…
Looks like we came close to getting screwed
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We are devastated to learn of the death of one of our employees following a plane crash yesterday during a scientific mission near Corner Brook, Newfoundland. Our thoughts are with the families of the employees aboard the plane and with all our employees.
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Congratulations to Drs. Craig Purchase and Shawn Leroux who, in partnership with ERMA, have received $1.2 million for a multi-year project on Exploits River Atlantic salmon
Learn more here: gazette.mun.ca/research/savi…
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.@usfws is listing the San Francisco Bay-Delta longfin smelt as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The decline in fish populations indicates environmental problems in the San Francisco Bay estuary. More: ow.ly/AmWT50SMx9M
ALT a longfin smelt swimming
ALT close up shot of a longfin smelt
Perils of beach sex
Operational sex ratio is very male biased in beach spawning capelin. This carnage is >99% male.
Reproductive fluids enabling cryptic female choice of paternity do not induce concomitant gamete-mediated paternal effects in embryos of hybridizing salmonid fishes biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Celebrating the completion of Phase A of radio tagging Atlantic salmon on a trib of the Exploits River with 5 members of the MUN salmon team.
Thanks to @HellstromKGV for the summer solstice gift from Sweden.
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N.L. to entomb its Unknown Soldier today in solemn ceremony of remembrance | CBC News cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundl…
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Thanks to @ParksCanadaNL and @MemorialU for bringing us close to searun #brooktrout. In a remote area free of dams, inv. brown trout and fishing pressure this ongoing dream project will help to protect and understand the sea-going form. @HellstromKGV @DrBrodin @CraigPurchase
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Enjoying the anadromous #brooktrout tracking expedition of a lifetime with @HellstromKGV @CraigPurchase and @ParksCanada in northern #newfoundland . Beautiful #seatrout , amazing people and receivers sent to the bottom of the Gulf of St.Lawrence attached to lobster traps!
