Croix and lake whitefish on White Moose Lakes. The new species that were added to the game were sauger in Emerald Lake, clear muskie on St. The kayaks will be available to rent on five of the game’s fictional lakes: Lake Saint Croix (Mich.), Emerald (N.Y.), Falcon (Ore.), White Moose Lakes (Alberta, Canada) and San Joaquin Delta (Calif.) There also will be new entry points to several lakes. The developers had previewed the kayak system in a previous forum on their website, and had been pointing toward a night fishing feature being added around Halloween with its Gar-O-Ween event. However, an update that took place early Tuesday morning adds even more content to the already successful game, including kayak rentals, new fish species and topwater and night fishing. “Fishing gear, which even as debris continues to catch marine life through what we call ghost fishing, appears to contribute a large proportion of the plastic seen on mesophotic reefs,” said co-author Lucy Woodall, associate professor in marine conservation biology and policy at University of Exeter, UK.The “Fishing Planet” simulation video game has been hailed as one of the top fishing games on the market today, especially after making its jump to PlayStation 4 (free to play, no less!) in August. “It was surprising to find that debris increased with depth since deeper reefs in general are farther from sources of plastic pollution,” said Luiz Rocha, Academy curator of ichthyology, and senior author on the study. The study found coral reefs to be more contaminated by plastics than other marine ecosystems that were evaluated, and that the contamination, increasing with depth, peaked in the mesophotic zone. The lowest density of plastic pollution was seen in the Marshall Islands, a coral island group in eastern Micronesia (Oceania), while the highest was recorded at Comoros, an island chain off the southeast coast of Africa, at nearly 84,500 items per square kilometre. Human-derived debris was found in nearly all locations studied, including some of the planet’s most remote and pristine coral reefs, such as those adjacent to uninhabited islands in the central Pacific. Of the total debris, 88 per cent was macroplastics larger than about five centimetres.
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