{"id":5232,"date":"2022-11-30T12:07:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T18:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=5232"},"modified":"2022-12-01T05:36:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T11:36:16","slug":"something-fishy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/something-fishy\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Fishy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2359\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/lake-trout.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2359\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/lake-trout.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Trout\" width=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2359\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake Trout (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ah, there&#8217;s nothing like seeing a dead fish to lift the spirits. I usually don&#8217;t post photos of deceased animals but this one is worth mentioning. On November 29, 2022 I found a washed-up Lake Trout (<i>Salvelinus namaycush<\/i>) on Montrose Beach. This might be the first Lake Trout I&#8217;ve seen at Montrose. Most of the large predatory fish in Lake Michigan are non-native and introduced, like the familiar Chinook and Coho Salmon. Lake Trout were once the dominant large predatory fish in the Great Lakes; lamprey predation, pollution, and overharvesting greatly reduced their numbers. Thanks to conservation measures, they&#8217;ve rebounded but they aren&#8217;t as common as they once were.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Identification:<\/strong> We know this is a Lake Trout and not an introduced salmon because of the small white spots on the body and the deeply forked tail. Our non-native salmon have dark speckling on their bodies and shallower tail forks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, there&#8217;s nothing like seeing a dead fish to lift the spirits. I usually don&#8217;t post photos of deceased animals but this one is worth mentioning. On November 29, 2022 I found a washed-up Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush) on Montrose Beach. This might be the first Lake Trout I&#8217;ve seen at Montrose. Most of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5232"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5238,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions\/5238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}