Fish romance

Captured sturgeon awaits partner

I kinda doubt that the sturgeon is waiting. It's mostly just swimming around and eating, like fish do. It's a fish! Anyway, the scientists are looking for a female. Like scientists do.

I missed this one

al.com: NewsFlash - State biologists hook rare Alabama sturgeon

Internet problems last week, but apparently the Alabama sturgeon is not, quite, extinct, because some biologists caught one in Wilcox County. Unfortunately, it was a male; they had wanted to catch a female they could use in a breeding program. The fish was implanted with a tracking device (just like Scrushy!) and released back into the river.

Ketchup?

Whaling: A Japanese Obsession With American Roots - New York Times

Apparently, Japanese schools are now serving delicious whale meat stewed in... ketchup.

Anyway, as I've noted in the past, the Japanese are positively obsessed with whale meat. Not quite so much as they are with, say, giant robots, but obsessed. This article has the goods on why. Since this is the Times, of course it's all our fault.

They are obviously after me

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So, why are the Alabama Marine Police parked outside my apartment? The only logical supposition that they're spying on the state's preeminent fish blogger. I didn't know that there were Alabama Marine Police until today.

Pope Spongebob I

Okay, this was taken with my cellphone so the image quality isn't too hot. If you can't read it, it says "Let Foodmax be your Seafood headquarters for Lent!" Which is all fine and dandy, though I actually don't eat much seafood and am not Catholic.

I do wonder about the propriety of using Spongebob Squarepants as their spokesman in this endeavor. Moreover, Mr. Squarepants seems extremely enthusiastic about Lent. And (I've never watched the show, because I don't use pot) aren't most of his friends, you know, fish?