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The Happy Anachronism:  a fishing blog

The Happy Anachronism: a fishing blog

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Hey. Did you get the memo?

The Pleistocene is over. The hunter-gatherer shtick has gone the way of disco and yes those waders do make you look fat.

Let's go fishing anyway.

Fishing, conservation and aquatic ecology topics from the Midwest US, Belize, Central America and from around the world.

Stop by any time.

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  • Lagoons are for kids

    Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 10:22

    The fish Richie is holding here is a juvenile snapper caught in Placencia Lagoon, Belize. It may not look especially impressive, but when it matures this species can be found in huge spawning aggregations on the Mesoamerica Reef. In April and May, th...

  • Mangrove planting and something fun

    Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 09:31

    Adrian found them while we were planting mangroves Saturday. It's nice to know the large charismatic wildlife is hanging in there. We didn't see any crocs though.The old plantings were looking quite robust.Here's the biggest tree of the lot, pushin...

  • Out like a Lion. Fish.

    Posted on Thursday October 22nd, 2009 at 11:42

    Red lionfish are quite beautiful...in the Pacific where they belong.In the Caribbean, they are an invasive species and they are serious trouble. Escaped from a private aquarium in Florida during hurricane Andrew in the mid-80s, red lionfish now compr...

  • The North American Conservation Model

    Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 20:50

    Time for more geeky conservation introspection.Alas, I cannot pretend I found "The North American Conservation Model" in a serious academic pursuit. It was...dare I say it....on Facebook, specifically on the Sierra Club's Hunter/Angler Heritage page....

  • Night of the Living Toadfish

    Posted on Tuesday October 6th, 2009 at 12:54

    So......you've caught a few fish. And it's getting dark but you don't want to quit yet. Then you get another bite and you begin reeling in and you realize that you have not hooked your run of the mill snappper.What appears at the end of your line h...

  • Marine Debris Day

    Posted on Monday September 28th, 2009 at 11:00

    I spent Saturday, International Marine Debris Day, working with the Southern Environmental Association, the University of Belize and the Belize Fisheries Department cleaning up the beach at Hunting Caye in the Sapodilla Cayes Marine Reserve.The beach...

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This blog is currently rated a 4.67 out of a possible 5 based on 3 comments.

sempurai

5 stars robinson unau g

Nice!

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TimSmith

5 stars Tim Smith

That's Ok Michael, no one else can understand my English either!

You also have a terrific blog with excellent photos and a fantastic diversity of fish. I truly wish I could read your language and understand your writing too.

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MRDCIERA

4 stars michael risdianto

I like your blog. Even my English not good to read all the articles, i enjoying there... Mike, Indonesia

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