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Fish Migration

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K. Ouchley

Even the most nature-deprived urban dwellers among us are aware of the basic concept of bird migration.  They know that some types of birds fly north in the spring and return in the fall.  However, few people including most outdoor-oriented folks in this region who should know better realize that migration is also a vital part of the life cycle of other kinds of local wildlife.  Consider freshwater fish, for example.

  

Kelby was a biologist and manager of National Wildlife Refuges for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for more than 30 years. He has worked with alligators in gulf coast marshes and Canada geese on Hudson Bay tundra. His most recent project was working with his brother Keith of the Louisiana Nature Conservancy on the largest floodplain restoration project in the Mississippi River Basin at the Mollicy Unit of the Upper Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge, reconnecting twenty-five square miles of former floodplain forest back to the Ouachita River.
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