Frank Bures is a writer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He’s the author of Pushing the River: An Epic Battle, a Lost History, a Near Death, and Other True Canoeing Stories and The Geography of Madness, a book about culture-bound syndromes around the world. He frequently writes about science, travel, and the outdoors, and produces audio tours for VoiceMap.
Fisheries scientists are only now coming to understand the important roles native “rough fish” play in freshwater ecosystems across North America—even as these long-maligned species are increasingly at risk.