A secret weapon with a cold nose! Our law enforcement dept. has wildlife inspector canines with very important jobs, one of those jobs, detecting wildlife being smuggled into the U.S. and injurious invasive species, like zebra and quagga mussels, on watercraft. #NationalPetDay

Sculpin Challenge: Clean your house with your mouth.

During spring spawning season male sculpin will build a nest under a rock or log by clearing out pebbles with their mouths and brushing away debris with their fins.

Video by Ryan Hagerty / USFWS.

In case you aren’t in the line of Toad-ality for today’s Toad-al Eclipse of the Sun, this is what you’re missing.

Once in a lifetime experience.

#SolarEclipse #Eclipse #TotalEclipseOfTheSun #Toad

Graphic by USFWS.

By the time you finish listening to Fish of the Week, you'll either be glad or jealous you didn't soil your pants sliding down gray bat guano to meet this amazing fish (wherever you get podcasts).

Alabama Cavefish 📷 Matthew L Niemiller (used with permission) #AllTheFish

We have dive teams, yes we do! 😍Dive teams go through hours of special training, true experts. They play a crucial rule in the conservation of aquatic species and ecosystems by utilizing unique skillsets to collect data on species like freshwater mussels. Coolest jobs ever!👏

Hey, I was here first!🐢Turtles stack on top of each other to get closer to light/warmth. 1️⃣might find a place to bask then another wants too as well. Turtles do same on logs in the water. Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery uses turtles to introduce groups to native species.

Get caught up on #AllTheFish episodes of our award-winning 'Fish of the Week!' #podcast (at FWS.gov or wherever you get your podcasts). On deck next Monday: Alabama Cavefish 🎣

📷 Top to bottom: Green Sunfish, Razorback Sucker (Sam Stukel/USFWS); Capelin (USGS)

☝️Remember the days of the 'mom and pop' bait shops where your bait and cold soda pops were in the same refrigerated section of the store? Living in a rural area, it was the place to get all things fishing & more! 🎣Do you have a store like that near where you live? #MOMandPOP

So you want to reel in some bluegill? Got a few tips on finding but what bait is preferred? Hmm.🤔 You can look for those sneaky little fish in weed beds, around shady spots under piers and overhanging trees! They like quiet, warm streams, ponds, lakes with aquatic vegetation.

Meet a soft and flabby wonder with the smallest brain-to-body weight ratio of any vertebrate and a name that's bound to stimulate conversation: the Bony-eared Assfish (Acanthonus armatus). 👋

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📷 NOAA Okeanos Explorer, Océano Profundo 2015

Fish biologists will say she 'she saved my life' and it's a gulf sturgeon.

Video Description
A fish with a long pointed head slowly enters the water from a boat. Scenes of the fish swimming along a sandy river bed with dark murky waters in the distance.

Impressive salmon art at Portland elementary school!

Several public schools in the city are studying salmon right now, part of a USFWS Fisheries program that brings science education into classrooms.

USFWS photos: T. Suzuki

💧 #worldwaterday Water, an important resource for people/fishes/wildlife/plants, like the razorback sucker. Native to the Colorado River - it's been around more than 3 million years! Now endangered, the its populations are supplemented by stocking fish and reintroduction efforts.

What's in your tackle box? 🎣 Is it all organized or an, open the lid and toss it in, type box? Share a photo, if you dare. 😁

🎶 This is Wednesday (woo), and World Frog Day (hey)
So lay your sticky pads down, down, down, down
Cope’s gray tree frog are quite ribbiting 🐸 Their color changes from green to gray depending on their surroundings and their special sticky toe pads help them climb trees! 🌳

New episode just dropped: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fis… (or wherever you get your podcasts) 🐟

Green clothes, green drinks, green rivers. Who’s catching green sunfish today? ☘️

Green sunfish photos by Sam Stukel/USFWS?

As tides continue to change in response to climate change and sea level rise, the saltmarsh sparrow's future remains uncertain. But with ongoing conservation efforts to restore and enhance salt marsh habitat, there is hope for the salt marsh sparrow. ow.ly/P8gE50QUyfz

🌎 #GlobalRecyclingDay ! Been out fishing or swimming and get tangled up in fishing line left behind? Happens to fish & wildlife too.😔Some outdoor stores and fishing access sites offer recycling. Or wind it up around your hand, cut through each side before putting in trash.

👍 You know it’s a good day to go fishing when you go out and actually catch fish! 😁