{"id":7576,"date":"2011-01-07T03:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=7576"},"modified":"2011-01-07T03:00:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T08:00:46","slug":"here-fishy-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7576","title":{"rendered":"Here, Fishy Fish!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/05\/us\/05trees.html?_r=2&amp;ref=science\">Firs for the Fish (and the Fishermen)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leftover Christmas trees used as fish habitats in lakes, somewhat like old ships being sunk and used as artificial reefs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The trees are taken to a different lake each year, where volunteers bundle them and secure them to the lake bed. Within days, the newly denuded branches become covered with algae, which attract aquatic insects, fish and, ultimately, fishermen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The incentive to get volunteers?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf they help, we give them the GPS coordinates of the trees,\u201d Mr. Mitchell said of the volunteers, many of whom are anglers. \u201cYou can go right to the spot, and it\u2019ll be good fishing there.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firs for the Fish (and the Fishermen) Leftover Christmas trees used as fish habitats in lakes, somewhat like old ships being sunk and used as artificial reefs. The trees are taken to a different lake each year, where volunteers bundle &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7576\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-other-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}