{"id":1102,"date":"2019-12-02T15:08:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T20:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/hooklinescience\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2023-07-27T15:50:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T19:50:11","slug":"what-are-the-most-popular-blogposts-from-the-second-six-months-of-hook-line-and-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/hooklinescience\/what-are-the-most-popular-blogposts-from-the-second-six-months-of-hook-line-and-science\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are the Most Popular Blogposts of the Year from Hook, Line and Science?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Fish shrinkage, invasive lionfish appetites, and cobia movement were our most popular topics.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n YES! Hook, Line and Science<\/em> is one year old. Twelve months, 52 Mondays and 50 science summaries about topics related to saltwater fishing. To be honest, I didn\u2019t know we\u2019d get this far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I can\u2019t tell you how many interesting blogs I\u2019ve visited over the years \u2014 only to return to them a short time later to find they had been abandoned. Not wanting this to be our fate, we set out to post weekly updates each Monday for a year. So today, I\u2019m proud to say that in the past 12 months we\u2019ve covered a great many topics of interest to saltwater anglers (and to many others who have been interested). Some of those have been covered by the popular press, but many have not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our goal, as scientists who specialize in marine fisheries, is to provide saltwater anglers, in particular, and a broader audience, in general, with easy access to science-based information related to fishing and fisheries. We can\u2019t cover everything, so we\u2019ve been seeking articles of interest that our statewide survey of anglers<\/a> identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Below are the most popular three posts of the year from Hook, Line and Science<\/em><\/a>. All three describe work that North Carolina fisheries scientists conducted in our state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do Fish Shrink After They Die?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Interesting finding:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Scientists monitored several popular sportfish after death to determine shrinkage rates. While most species shrank relatively little, most did shrink<\/em>, and any reduction in length from a fish harvested and retained at the minimum size would result in an angler being in possession of smaller fish \u2014 which might be illegal, depending on the law and the body of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n