October 27, 2026
Monday Mystery Answered
On Monday I wrote… Yesterday morning, top Celery Farm Nature Preserve birder Julie McCall saw an unusual-looking hawk over the…
I have a story in The Record today about a nifty study on New Jersey’s brook trout, which have been swimming in the same brooks — and the same gene pools — for the past 10,000 years.
Although many of the brook trout in larger bodies of water have interbred with hatchery-raised trout — affecting their genetic makeup — these guys have pretty much the same genetic makeup.
After I had interviewed the researcher and filed the story, my editor asked a question that never occurred to me:
Do these brook trout taste any different?
My story is here.