Fish News
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Louisville -
Free food!
The venerable Long John Silver's seafood restaurant chain will offer a free menu item on Saturday to celebrate its 45 years in business.
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An updated Monitoring and Response Plan (MRP) to protect the Great Lakes from an invasive species of Asian carp has been announced.
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Using skills that would put Bruce Lee to shame, a fish, which clearly appeared to be the "underdog," has managed to defend itself from becoming a dog’s dinner!
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By emitting and sensing weak electrical signals, the electric fish have bypassed the usual means of communication, such as with sounds and visual signals, and go directly to electrical signals. This allows them to quietly "talk" to each other in the dark.
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Following an in-depth study, scientists have found that sailfish use their bills to corral and slash other fish, like schooling sardines.
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Sydney -
Fish are losing their survival instinct -- even becoming attracted to the smell of their predators -- as the world's oceans become more acidic because of climate change, new research said on Monday.
In the Media
by AFP
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Cincinnati -
A genetic association has been discovered with facial asymmetry in an ancient cavefish and facial asymmetries in humans. Researchers hope to understand why genes behave differently on the right versus the left sides of the human face.
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It's time to rethink how we classify species in marine ecosystems, say two University of Windsor ecologists in the University of Windsor's Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research.
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Scientists are trying to understand why, in the spring, jellyfish emerge in the sea in high numbers. The effect has been described as "blooming like flowers." A biochemical trigger is thought to play a part.
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Lovund -
If you think the weather near you has been cold, ask this school of fish how chilly Norway is lately. The entire school of saithe was found frozen solid in the ice just off Lovund island.
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Only 55 adult Maui's dolphins are known to survive off the coast of New Zealand. A plan has been launched to try and save the few dolphins that are left.
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Environment Canada has permitted the company AquaBounty Technologies to produce its genetically-modified fish eggs on a commercial scale.
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A video uploaded nearly a year ago has recently been gathering some attention. The video involves a dolphin and a dead fish.
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A simple case of cause and effect may be why the world's coral reefs have been trending towards decline. According to a new study, the killing of too many sharks is also killing the population of herbivorous fish that keep reefs healthy.
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Honolulu -
Thousands of fish were found dead in the water at the Honolulu Harbor this week. It is now known that the cause was a molasses spill from a faulty Matson pipe under Pier 52.
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The tiny annual fish of Africa live in temporary puddles created by seasonal rainfall, and so must grow and reproduce quickly in order to lay their hardy eggs before the waters dry up.
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It’s evident that octopus intelligence is unlike any other animal we have seen. The octopus’s arms continue to remain alert, reacting to pain, long after they have been removed from the octopus’s body.
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The bald notothen is a small fish that lives in the freezing, icy waters of Antarctica. Scientists have figured out how the fish manages to survive in conditions that would kill most other sea creatures.
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Marbella -
Police discovered the frozen sardines in a truck en route from Morocco this week, and found them to have a rather unusual herbal stuffing — around 900 kilos of hashish.
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On June 21, a man, from Seattle, Washington, caught a fish off the coast of Alaska. The fish may be around the age of two-hundred-years-old.
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Blackpool -
A fantail goldfish who kept floating upside down has been saved by his owner's home-made buoyancy jacket. The goldfish now swims again and can carry on being trained to play fish football.
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Imagine butchering a squid at the local fish market. As you are cutting in your knife is brought to a halt by something that feels like a bowling ball. Yes you have just cut into a squid that has a bomb in it's body
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Scientists have identified a protein derived from Pacific cod that may inhibit prostate cancer and possibly other cancers from spreading.
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Fukushima -
Two years after the nuclear disaster, TEPCO has found a greenling fish in the waters near the crippled Fukushima plant, with a record quantity of radioactive cesium - 7,400 times the country's limit for safe human consumption.
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A new study has looked at the affects of pharmaceutical by-products that enter the water supply and how some by-products can affect the behavior of fish, putting them at risk.
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The nonprofit, ocean conservation group Oceana conducted a study in 20 states, discovering widespread mislabeling of fish.
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Reykjav -
Officials in Iceland are blaming the deaths of tens of thousands of herring on low oxygen levels in the Kolgrafafjordur fjord. This is the second time a mass herring death has occurred this winter.
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McDonald's says it will begin selling its fish sandwiches in boxes with the blue Eco-label of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). McDonald's has agreed to audits that will verify it serves only Alaskan pollock certified by the MSC as sustainable.
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A genetically engineered salmon has moved a step closer to appearing in stores after the FDA announced that the fish did not pose a threat either to the environment or to consumers.
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Frankfurt -
German scientists studying a species of tropical fish have found that females of the species are attracted to males who "flirt" with other males.
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Fish Image
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Fish, packed in ice, supermarket Tesco-Lotus, Udonthani, Thailand
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Nir David Kibbutz, Israel 2011
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Nir David Kibbutz, Israel 2011
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Via flickr user rjp
Fish oil supplements
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Nir David Kibbutz, Israel 2011
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Andreas Wretström
African puddle fish (or the 'annual fish): Nothobranchius rachovii,
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Nir David Kibbutz, Israel 2011
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Stanley Sie
Dead fish caused by suspected bombing.
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Hans-Petter Fjeld
Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) has been an important traded commodity in international markets since the Viking period. Now is in the list of endangered species.
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Istiophorus platypterus (sailfish) exhibiting sail-rasing behaviour in the mouth of Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica
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YouTube screenshot
A screenshot from "Day in the life of a Crab net"
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Ptychochromis insolitus, a native of Madagascar
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Photo by Igor I. Solar
A winning entry in Digital Journal's global Photo Essay contest
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Photo: Dr. Simon Foale, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
Clown fish.
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Nir David Kibbutz, Israel 2011
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Wikimedia Commons
A fairly big number of fish species, including eels and sharks, has the ability to generate and discharge electrical currents in the water around.
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With permission by Sayaka Ganz
An exhibit of colourful fish, by Sayaka Ganz
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Nir David Kibbutz, Israel 2011
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