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Eyes reveal life history of fish: Eye-popping research helps inform salmon and floodplain management – Science Daily

If you look deep into the eyes of a fish, it will tell you its life story. Scientists demonstrate that they can use stable isotopic analysis of the eye lenses of…

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If you look deep into the eyes of a fish, it will tell you its life story.Scientists from the University of California, Davis, demonstrate that they can use stable isotopic analysis of the eye lenses of freshwater fish — including threatened and endangered salmon — to reveal a fish’s life history and what it ate along the way.
They conducted their study, published today in the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution, through field-based experiments in California’s Central Valley. The study carries…

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