Tippets: Keys to Sight Fishing, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Face Warming

February 12, 2015 By: Erin Block

  • Whether you’re scanning saltwater flats or warmwater ponds, some of the same principles for sight fishing apply. From pacing to sunlight, read more about Kirk Deeter’s “six keys” for successful  spotting. Via Field & Stream.
  • New research published in the journal Nature Climate Change points to the weakening of a natural barrier due to a warming Arctic ocean that has served to separate fish species of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. “We know from historical examples that this kind of interchange, when biotas have been separated over long evolutionary time scales, can have huge consequence,” says Mary Wisz, lead author on the report and senior ecosystem scientist at Aarhaus University in Denmark. Via Discovery.