A team of boat landing inspectors is on Great Lakes sites to spread educational messages to boaters: clean, drain and dry. They protect Wisconsin waters.

Emma Wiermaa is working to give aquaculture a good name — not that it has a bad name — but people sometimes have misconceptions about its fish-raising practices and food safety. Wiermaa is the new part-time outreach specialist at the Northern Aquaculture Demonstration Facility (NADF) in Red Cliff, Wis.

Computer modeling by Wisconsin Sea Grant researchers will provide information for upcoming state-tribal fishing agreement renegotiations in Lake Superior.

The next monthly River Talk is scheduled for May 27, 7 p.m. at the Clyde Iron Works Restaurant (2920 W. Michigan St., Duluth, Minn.). Representatives from the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve and Wisconsin Sea Grant will host a trivia night, featuring prizes and questions based on previous talks.

UW Sea Grant’s assistant director for research leaves to take a job in private industry, but the things he’s accomplished here remain.

The 2014 Wisconsin general fishing opener is May 3. Download a handy app before heading out with a rod, reel and tackle box.

The next monthly River Talk is scheduled for Apr. 29 at 7 p.m. at the Clyde Iron Works Restaurant (2920 W. Michigan St., Duluth, Minn.). John Lindgren and Paul Piszczek with the Minnesota and Wisconsin departments of natural resources will present, “Something Fishy: What’s happening with fish in the St. Louis River Estuary.”

What’s an Attack Pack, you ask? One Madison educator shares her experience with the teaching tool.

Nguyen Khac Tiep will address the linkage between climate change and energy generation on April 28 at UW-Madison.

In February, a team of five high school students from Spring Valley in Pierce County, Wisconsin, emerged victorious in the 2014 Lake Sturgeon Bowl. Now, it’s off to the national competition in Seattle.