CA study spotlights racist past of ‘junk fish’ in the U.S.
Andrew Rypel grew up fishing on Wisconsin’s pristine lakes and rivers. With just a worm on his hook, he caught suckers, gar, sunfish and other native fish he never saw in his game fishing magazines. From a young age, Rypel loved all the fish species and it surprised him that others paid little attention to the native fish in his area. … Now working as an associate professor at UC Davis, Rypel … and 10 of his colleagues discovered something that he’d known since his youth: Most fishing regulations are biased against native fishes.
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