Tickets are going fast for a professional chef fish cook-off and tasting event hosted by the Wisconsin and Minnesota Sea Grant programs in Duluth, Minn., at the Depot on Oct. 4, 2013, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Judge for yourself; are Wisconsin or Minnesota chefs better at cooking Lake Superior fish? Tickets ($15) are available online or by calling (218) 726-8106. For more information, visit http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/fisheries/classic.

Carry 174 Wisconsin fish in your pocket with our downloadable apps. A mobile website with finger-friendly design is also available.

We are reprinting our always-popular “Fish of the Great Lakes” poster and are entertaining suggestions for what kinds of fish you want to see appear.

The SeaCavesWatch.org real-time wave observation system for the mainland sea caves at the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in Lake Superior just got even more useful. Kayakers can just press a big red button to access the web site, which provides photos and data about conditions at the sea caves, before they venture out.

University of Wisconsin-Superior senior Tucker Lindberg is spending the summer at boat ramps on Lake Superior. Although he enjoys being around the water, Lindberg is there for a purpose: to talk to boaters about invasive species and to inspect their boats so that they don’t unwittingly spread unwanted plants or animals to the next lake.

Revisit our 14-part podcast series in honor of Wisconsin Aquaculture Day, July 20. It commemorates the industry that contributes $21 million to the economy through live bait, fee fishing, stocking and food fish production.

Sea Grant’s John Karl collaborated with Caitie McCoy with Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant to produce a new video that details the processes and successes of the Great Lakes Legacy Act. The U.S. EPA project brings communities together to clean up contaminated sediments in the Great Lakes basin.

UW Sea Grant funds a team of maritime archaeologists and students surveying the wreck of the Great Lakes’ first self-unloading wooden schooner, abandoned in Sturgeon Bay.

Nationwide, each year more than 100 drownings are the result of rip currents. Rip currents can occur at any surf beach with breaking waves, including Great Lakes beaches.

A partnership between the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network and Wildlife Forever produces a new resource to help prevent the spread of invasive species.