Friday night fish fries are a popular tradition in Milwaukee, but is this tradition under threat because the fish are no longer as abundant as they once were? Faced with this grim outlook for fish fry lovers, Jonathan Bales and Leon Todd have co-founded the Urban Aquaculture Center (UAC) which they believe gives Milwaukee the [...]
A Veteran’s Vision for the Soldiers Home
I recently visited one of Milwaukee’s best kept secrets, a sprawling campus near the Brewer’s Stadium known in a previous time as Wood, Wisconsin. The Milwaukee Soldiers Home is part of the Veterans Administration Complex which still provides services to area veterans, including myself. Much of the complex is a well tended cemetery, where tens [...]
Not a Fish Story
Milwaukee’s popular Friday night fish fry tradition is under threat − by price increases and the declining availability of fish. Harvesting fish from the wild is becoming less sustainable as world fisheries collapse, so it makes good sense to look at alternative solutions.
Fortunately, something can be done. The Urban Aquaculture Center (UAC) proposes a sustainable [...]
The Creel
The Urban Aquaculture Center (UAC), a new WAA member from Milwaukee, proposes this question to members: “Why not farm fish in urban areas”? The UAC is hoping to bring Milwaukee into the Twenty-First Century in terms of fish production with a proposed large-scale production and educational facility that will also provide innovative solutions [...]
Fish Lecture
Leon Todd and Jonathan Bales will present a lecture on “The History of the the Wisconsin Friday Night Fish Fry and the Disappearing Fish” on Wednesday, May 21 (noon) at the Milwaukee County Historical Society Museum located at 910 Old World Third.
Leon Todd and Jonathan Bales are co-founders of the Urban Aquaculture Center. Their presentation [...]