New guide to sharks and rays of Indonesia
...he 1850s. The five-year survey of catches at local fish markets provided the first detailed description of... scientist Pieter Bleeker described more than 1100 fish species in 18421860. Many of Bleeker's proposed new shark and ray species were rejected by his peers...Vitamin D deficiency widespread during pregnancy
...l common." Vitamin D is found naturally in fatty fish but few other foods. Primary dietary sources include fortified foods such as milk and some ready-to-eat cereals and vitamin supplements. Sun exposure for skin synthesis of vitamin D also remains critical. "Our study shows that current vitamin D die...Mistaken identity? When a white marlin may not always be a white marlin
...n overlaps that of the white marlin, a prized game fish of American recreational anglers. This finding has significant implications to the future of the threatened white marlin, as recent population assessments may have been overestimated since the species is virtually indistinguishable from the previou...Antarctic marine explorers reveal first biological changes after collapse of polar ice shelves
...s of cnidarians (organisms related to coral, jelly fish and sea anemones). One is a potentially new sea a...ish has decreased. The results will contribute to fish stock monitoring and assessment ongoing under the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine...Looking for life on Jupiter's icy moon Europa
...Bacteria, diatoms, clams, snails, sponges and even fish larvae live under the ice shelves, yet often appear on the surface because of upheavals in the ice. Similarly, photos taken by the Galileo spacecraft reveal a highly fractured ice surface on Europa with domes and ridges and uptilted ice rafts indic...Climate changes, Cod collapse have altered North Atlantic ecosystems
...ton (tiny free-floating animals like copepods) and fish populations that live near the surface, according to the report. Without the fall deepening of the surface mixed layer, phytoplankton populations have continued access to daylight needed for growth, and their numbers have stayed abundant throughout ...A dietary supplement protects the lives of farm shrimp
...biotic resistant and cause significant loss in the fish farming industry (aquaculture) as an outbreak cann... implications for infection reduction, not only in fish farming, as we may be able to reduce, or even replace the use of antibiotics. The ecological and hea...Biologically inspired sensors can augment sonar, vision system in submarines
... Ill. -- To find prey and avoid being preyed upon, fish rely on a row of specialized sensory organs along the sides of their bodies, called the lateral line. Now, a research team led by Chang Liu at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has built an artificial lateral line that can provide the sa...AAAS Oceans Panel examines advances in science and technology to boost fishery sustainability
...e, and less destructive; and there are examples of fish stocks that have recovered and habitats that are protected. Even with the best available science, are sustainable fisheries possible and are reports in the popular media helping or hindering this effort?...AAAS releases video and first board consensus statement on climate change
... as rapid beach erosion and thinning ice. "The fish are way up river and gone somewhere else," Tocktoo said. "With the permafrost nowadays, we bury our fish and food very shallow because the sun is so hot, the sun might heat up the sand and then spoil all o...'Ten Commandments' could improve fisheries management
...on said. "We must consider whole systems, we must fish with more caution, and we must learn by testing ne...itoring of catch characteristics to assess whether fish stocks are being sustained. Among the other commandments: Maintain an "old growth" structure in f...Long-lived deep-sea fishes imperiled by technology, overfishing
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Many commercially prized fish from the depths of the world's oceans are severely...ciation of the Advancement of Science. Some of the fish species living at depths greater than 500 meters take decades to reach breeding maturity, so there a...The last wild hunt -- Deep-sea fisheries scrape bottom of the sea
...enturies or millennia to grow. The trawlers target fish such orange roughy and grenadiers for food, and sharks for the cosmetic industry. These fish are generally long-lived, slow growing and late maturing so their populations take decades, even cen...Vet College gets grant to develop fish virus diagnostic technique
...echnique they developed to rapidly detect a deadly fish virus that has increasingly appeared in the Great ...(VHSV) has been isolated in a wide variety of dead fish from the St. Lawrence River, the Niagara River, Lake St. Claire, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. Most re...Stopping plants from getting sick
...ping the sooty black smut and the smell of rotting fish from Canada's wheat fields. ...Is biodiversity the future of farming?
...t farm in Japan. He produces duck meat, duck eggs, fish meat, fruit, and rice without any purchased outside inputs, using a highly synergistic system of production on the same acreage where he previously only produced rice. And, in this new system, his rice yields have increased up to 50% over previous yi...AAAS Panel -- Sustainable aquaculture critical to feed the world
...ded wild capture fisheries' ability to provide all fish meals demanded by consumers. Aquaculture -- or the...ure community. From new methods of rearing farmed fish with smaller environmental footprints, to identifying new feeds, the scientific study of aquaculture...Newly discovered West Coast arrhythmias cause
...normal and causing the typical boom in small, prey fish populations to occur too late for feeding salmon, ...ycles are timed to coincide with the boost in prey fish in the spring. Tied to coastal breeding colonies, they are not strong enough fliers to travel hundre...Red hot chili pepper research spices up historical record
...ich in vitamin C, to be an excellent complement to fish and starchier foods like maize, beans, yams and corn. "It's also an excellent disguiser," Raymond notes. "If something's not tasting quite right, you can always throw a few chilis in the pot."......rs are unaware of the connection between the adult fish populations and the rate of supply of larvae that ...e juveniles, they tend to attribute the control of fish populations to other factors, including supernatural forces," he says. While these beliefs remain ...