<p>Really interesting stuff here - they've studied how exercise effects the way gar breathe air, how gar use air-breathing to socialize with other gar of the same species, and how temperature effects their breathing. I added this page to the links section, hoping maybe somebody might find this info useful in your quest for more and bigger gar!</p>
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<a href="http://www.bio.davidson.edu/people/midorcas/animalphysiology/websites/2010/Kern/index.htm">Here's the link to the website</a></h3>
Very interesting stuff, the little drawings are pretty comical though haha. The social aspect of it was fascinating. I had always wondered why when one gar surfaced others would too, even fish that weren't very close to one another. I especially noticed this with Alligator Gar.
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Cool stuff, a lot of very interesting information and theroys in this. But.....
I disagree with some of the findings in this report, this line especially....
"Thus, in the interest of preserving the species and passing on genomes similar to their own, gar might rise with fish most like them to reduce the risk of predation, but not with gar of a different species who would have much more variable genome".
I think its pretty safe to say different Gar species will hybridize with each other. I have also seen two different species of gar hanging out together on multiple river systems.
Still very cool though, I wish more studies like this were done on some of the non game fish we know and love.
The gods do not subtract the alotted span in men's lives the hours spent in fishing.
Enjoyed the comments by Corey and the other Roughfish guys in the article "Trash Fish" in the July issue of Field and Stream magazine. Not sure about the Trash Fish title, but Lawrence Pyne did an excellent job on praising and encouraging the sport of Roughfishing in a national magazine.