Tench: Doctor Fish — Fish of the Week!

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May we have your at-TENCH-ion please? Will the real Slime Shady please stand up? Folklore has it that Tench slime can cure any sick fish that rubs against it. Hence its other name: “Doctor Dre.” Oh wait, oops (checking notes). Hence its other name: "Doctor Fish." Guest Bryan Witte, a fisheries biologist with the Kalispel Tribe talks with us about ol' Tinca tinca including how and where to catch one.

Tench were first introduced to North

America in the 1870s. On our latest podcast episode of "Fish of the

Week!" we're talking all about Tench with a focus on eastern Washington.

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