{"id":6304,"date":"2022-04-16T12:06:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T18:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/westerncanada\/?p=6304"},"modified":"2022-05-23T20:53:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T02:53:24","slug":"restoration-tip-dont-flush-your-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/westerncanada\/2022\/04\/16\/restoration-tip-dont-flush-your-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Restoration Tip: Don&#8217;t flush your fish!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>#ERestorationTips &#8211; Restoration Tip 236<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the number of invasive common carp was successfully reduced through a restoration project in the Hamilton Harbour, the niche was taken over by goldfish set free or flushed down the toilet by area residents.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about how the Department of Fisheries and Oceans is tracking the goldfish and the impacts this has on native fish species <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/society\/environment\/the-goldfish-invasion-in-hamilton-harbour\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Image courtesy of Jess Robichaud<\/p>\n<p>Read all the past Restoration Tips created by students in the University of Saskatchewan&#8217;s SLC 350 class <a href=\"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/westerncanada\/resources\/2018-weekly-restoration-tips\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#236 Invasive species affect aquatic ecosystems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":6305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/westerncanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/westerncanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/westerncanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/westerncanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/westerncanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/westerncanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/westerncanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/westerncanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/westerncanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/westerncanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}