Warming Waters May Be Increasing Northern Pike Predation in Alaska
Scientific research suggests that warming waters are increasing the appetite of invasive northern pike.
For the study, researchers compared the stomach contents of northern pike caught by the US Fish and Wildlife Service in the Deshka River during the summers of 2021 and 2022 with data collected a decade earlier.
The study, Warming causes modest increase in the consumptive demands of invasive Northern Pike (Esox lucius) in Alaska freshwaters, was published in Biological Invasions, a peer-reviewed journal with research led by the University of Alaska...
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