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Rachel Crawford
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PhD freshwater ecology, University of Waikato| Fish passage & fish swimming | Seattle to New Zealand | she/her 🐟
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Can you feel it? #25DaysOfFishmas is in the air, and will kick off on Monday 🥳🐟🎅🥳

As a little teaser before I announce the theme tomorrow, here's a quick odd-one-out - one of these organisms would not fit into this year's category:
November 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Seattle No Kings from the monorail
October 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Decades of public-lands planning, overturned in a day - High Country News share.google/IKTztC8JUsFJ...
Decades of public-lands planning, overturned in a day - High Country News
The House voted to nullify three Bureau of Land Management plans, and critics fear many more could follow.
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September 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Excited to announce that my 5th and final PhD chapter is now published! 🥳

Teaching fish new tricks: repeated exposure to a velocity barrier improves passage performance #fishlearning #fishpassage #galaxiids #fishswimming #fish

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Teaching fish new tricks: Repeated exposure to a velocity barrier improves passage performance
Instream structures like culverts and dams can impede upstream fish migration, acting as environmental filters that only allow onward migration of individuals that can successfully pass them. Cognitio...
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August 13, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Seems like the media is starting to wake up. There are thousands of these stories they need to report on #parkchat

www.king5.com/article/news...
Trump fires thousands of US Parks, Forest Service workers: 'It's like having the rug pulled out from under me'
Mass firings of National Parks and Forest Service workers began last Friday in the name of "government efficiency."
www.king5.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
On the 7th day of #fishmas (8th day here in NZ)

Giant kokopu released after an electrofishing depletion survey in Hamilton 🐟
December 7, 2024 at 9:53 PM
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On the 6th day of #fishmas biologists remove salmonids (along w every other species of fish & critter they catch) for fish-passage improvement projects in the PNW (actually they do this during the summer, low water "fish window" in compliance w permits.
December 7, 2024 at 4:57 AM