Heat waves are not good for cold-water fish species

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 19, 2024

Tuesday is National Go Fishing Day, but Maine biologists are encouraging people to leave the cold-water species in their safe zone during the heatwave and seek warm water fish such as bass, perch or pickerel. Like a person trying to breathe in high humidity, a cold water fish swimming for any length of time in really warm surface water will struggle to get enough oxygen.