Fish Stories? Some Fish Personality Types Are Most Likely To Get Caught

Talk to long-time anglers with a favorite spot and they will often tell stories of one fish they could never get. In mythical overtones, they will speak of its ability to avoid capture, attributing an almost supernatural intelligence (for a fish). Such stories were once so common that 'fish story' became its own brand of tall tale. A new study mapped individual heritable traits of fish to environmental conditions and concluded that some fish really are going to be harder to catch. The work by the University of Eastern Finland and the Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute in the Paltamo Unit of the Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute read more

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