Age determination in fish fish. Johannes Reibisch, working for the Commission of Scientific Investigation of German Seas at Kiel, attempted to use Hoffbauer’s techniques to age plaice ("Plueronectes platessa") but found it difficult to accurately discern annuli. He decided to study a different structure and in 1899 he published the first procedures using otoliths as an aging structure. A fellow scientist also with the German Commission at Kiel, Friedriche Heincke, also frustrated with difficult scale annuli, further studied other structures to age fish. He discovered annuli in the vertebrae, opercula, and pectoral girdle and published his findings in Heicke 1905. The works of Hoffbauer,
Cooking on the Wild Side Cooking on the Wild Side Cooking on the Wild Side is a cooking show hosted by Phyllis Speer and John Philpot on the Arkansas Educational Television Network (AETN) and produced by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. The show was originally part of "Arkansas Outdoors," and featured many cooking segments from that series alongside new content. Phyllis Speer and John Philpot have co-hosted together for over 18 years, first on "Arkansas Outdoors" and then on "Cooking on the Wild Side." Speer is known for her work in education, and a member of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission's Hall of