This week’s NAS Seminar: Fisheries biologist Patrick Forsythe

The next installment of the Natural and Applied Sciences Seminar Series features a timely topic — it’s the opening of Wisconsin’s inland sportfishing season this weekend — as UW-Green Bay Assistant Prof. Patrick Forsythe of NAS speaks on the topic, “Reproductive Ecology and Habitat Use of Primitive and Sport Fishes of Green Bay.” His slide-illustrated lecture, free and open to the public, takes place at 3 p.m. Friday (May 1) in Room 301 of the Environmental Sciences Building. Forsythe cover the great ecosystem changes of the last century and the fact fish mangers know much more than they used to but still not as much as they’d like about the vast Green Bay fishery. He’ll outline ongoing and future research plans within the UW-Green Bay Aquatic Ecology and Fisheries Laboratory, and address population characteristics, reproductive behavior, and habitat preferences of top predators including northern pike, walleye and musky and recovering native species including whitefish and sturgeon. A social follows at approximately 4 p.m. in ES 317.