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Spotted for the first time: a fish holding its breath underwater
Coffinfish hold water over their gills for up to 4 minutes
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A Shark Vomit Study Shows They've Been Eating a Totally Unexpected Animal
Sharks are pretty eclectic eaters. They'll go for prey ranging from fish and invertebrates to sea mammals and turtles. A shark may even have a chomp on the odd surfer. If they can catch it, or scavenge it, and it's made of meat, sharks will generally
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Fish fraud: How can consumers make sure they’re getting what’s on the label?
The fish you buy might not be the fish you thought it was.
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Aquaculture Doesn’t Reduce Pressure on Wild Fish
Aquaculture is often promoted as a sustainable alternative to catching wild fish—a way to reduce pressure on overexploited stocks while providing affordable and necessary protein for people’s diets. It’s an argument put forward by major international organizations like the World Bank and the intergovernmental Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. But it’s an argument that doesn’t hold up, according to new research.
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Fish Appear to Recognize Themselves in the Mirror
The cleaner wrasse fish (Labroides dimidiatus), responds to its reflection and attempts to remove marks on its body during the mirror test -- a method considered the gold standard for determining self-awareness in animals. The finding suggests that fish might possess far higher cognitive powers than previously thought, and ignites a high-stakes debate over how we assess the intelligence of animals that are so unlike ourselves.
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In China, eating pufferfish is no longer a dance with death
A prized delicacy in Japan, where poisonous varieties are prepared by skilled chefs, pufferfish are giving spicy crayfish a run for their money in Beijing
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The Only 5 Weight Loss Friendly Foods You Need to Know About - When Women Inspire
Dieting doesn’t need to involve starving; it just takes choosing the right weight loss friendly foods. They can help you shave excess pounds and also boost your overall health.
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No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime
It expands by 10,000 times in a fraction of a second, it’s 100,000 times softer than Jell-O, and it fends off sharks and Priuses alike.
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If You Care About the Plastics Crisis, Stop Eating Seafood
Plastic Planet is a series on the global plastics crisis that evaluates the environmental and human costs and considers possible solutions to this devastating man-made problem. In this op-ed, Kenny Torrella of Mercy for Animals explains how the seafood industry is harming the environment.
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Fish Parasites Are on the Rise
Some fish parasites are on the rise, bringing with them risks to human health and fisheries-based economies. Now researchers have a new way to track their numbers—by digging into old records and museum samples. Recent years have seen alarming outbreaks of disease in fish and other marine species, including one that caused a massive die-off of sea stars in the northeast Pacific starting in 2013. But it has not been clear whether this uptick in illnesses was due to an actual increase in the number of pathogens...
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A ‘Self-Aware’ Fish Raises Doubts About a Cognitive Test
A report that a fish can pass the “mirror test” for self-awareness reignites debates about how to define and measure that elusive quality.
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'We're sounding the alarm': half of Canada's chinook salmon endangered
Half of Canada’s chinook salmon are endangered, with nearly all other populations in precarious decline, according to a new report, confirming fears that prospects for the species remain dire. The report by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada concluded that eight of the country’s 16 populations are considered endangered, four are threatened, one is of special concern and the health of two remain unknown.
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'Sad surprise': Amazon fish contaminated by plastic particles
Scientists have found the first evidence of plastic contamination in freshwater fish in the Amazon, highlighting the extent to which bags, bottles and other waste dumped in rivers is affecting the world’s wildlife. Tests on the stomach contents of fish in Brazil’s Xingu River, one of the major tributaries of the Amazon, revealed plastic particles in more than 80% of the species examined, including the omnivorous parrot pacu, herbivorous redhook silver dollar, and meat-eating red-bellied piranha.
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Ocean Shock: Fish Flee the Carolinas as Waters Warm. People lose out.
‘There ain’t no flounder around here no more – they all up there in Rhode Island.’: As warming oceans make summer flounder scarce, a town loses its livelihood.
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A Fish Has Passed The Benchmark Test Of Self-Awareness
For the first time, a species of fish has demonstrated evidence of possible self-awareness by passing the famous mirror test.
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Salmon Farmers Are Scanning Fish Faces to Fight Killer Lice
New technology will use facial recognition to build individual medical records for millions of fish.
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Beer, Drinking Water And Fish: Tiny Plastic Is Everywhere
Plastic trash less than 5 millimeters long is in the things we eat and drink, and the air we breathe. Scientists are just beginning to study where it comes from and how it might affect our health.
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Is Fish the Food of Love, and Babies?
Trying to have a baby? Eating fish might help. Researchers interviewed 501 couples who were trying to get pregnant without medical assistance. All kept diaries on their diet and other health and behavioral habits, including fish consumption and frequency of sexual intercourse. They followed the pairs for a year or until pregnancy.
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OK Which One Of You Threw A Fish At Liam Gallagher?
Liam Gallagher was performing at the Festival Internacional de Benicàssim in Spain a couple nights ago when someone in the audience threw a fish on stage. Understandably, he wasn't too happy with this development and took a few moments out of his set to address whoever did it. "So which dickhead threw the fish here then?" he asked. "Fucking stinky, smelly fish, man. Now, listen, mate, it really ain't that fucking bad, man. Don't be throwing fish on stage, mate. I've seen a lot worse than this shit. Alright? I fucking can't be singing while there's a fish there, mate." Watch video of the fish incident below. So, which one of you was it?...
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Acidic oceans cause fish to lose their sense of smell
Fish are losing their sense of smell because of increasingly acidic oceans caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, new research shows.
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