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  • July 2008

    • Flesh-Nibbling Fish Latest Pedicure Fad

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jul 22, 08 11:37 AM CDT

      Flesh-Nibbling Fish Latest Pedicure Fad

      Fish pedicures where dozens of tiny carp smooth out your tootsies by eating away the dead skin is the latest in spa pampering. Since March, a DC area salon has offered the pools of garra rufa, aka doctor fish—popular in Turkey and Asia—as an alternative to scraping razors. So far 5,000 people have taken the plunge, the AP reports. More »

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      Washington DC  • Virginia  • fish  • weird  • spa  • beauty  • alternative treatment

    • Roots of Speech Found in Humming Fish

      newser  |  National Geographic  |  Jul 18, 08 3:13 AM CDT

      Roots of Speech Found in Humming Fish

      The songs of birds, the hums and grunts of toadfish, and the lofty speech of humans all use the same ancient brain circuit, despite an evolutionary split 400 million years ago, reports National Geographic . Researchers have discovered that the base of the hindbrain and upper spinal cord is the starting point for all vocalizations. More »

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      animal  • evolution  • brain  • fish  • speech  • nature  • amphibians

    • Corn Prices Leave Catfish Farmers Gasping

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jul 18, 08 2:14 AM CDT

      Corn Prices Leave Catfish Farmers Gasping

      The soaring price of corn and soybeans is moving up the food chain and drying up the South's catfish farming industry, reports the New York Times . Farmers are draining their ponds as the cost of feeding the fish becomes prohibitive. In the Mississippi Delta, heartland of the relatively new industry, thousands of much-needed jobs are disappearing. More »

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      farming  • Mississippi  • fish  • commodities  • corn  • farm  • aquaculture  • soybeans

    • Fish Farms, Retailers Hatch Green Standards

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Jul 16, 08 6:42 AM CDT

      Fish Farms, Retailers Hatch Green Standards

      Supermarkets are tightening the net on farmed seafood products as demand for environmentally-friendly products grows, reports the Washington Post . Aquaculture now supplies more than half of America's rising demand for fish and shrimp and retailers are working with producers and green groups to make sure the farmed products are both safe and sustainable. More »

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      farming  • fish  • Whole Foods  • Greenpeace  • seafood  • World Wildlife Fund  • sustainability  • aquaculture

    • Fish Toxin Buyer Linked to Murder Plot

      newser  |  Chicago Tribune  |  Jul 2, 08 3:58 AM CDT

      Fish Toxin Buyer Linked to Murder Plot

      An Illinois man busted trying to buy enough puffer fish toxin to kill dozens of people had been seeking to hire a hit man on the internet to kill a mystery woman, reports the Chicago Tribune . The financial planner sent emails to people offering $8,000 for the murder, authorities said. He was arrested yesterday when police found six empty vials of the deadly puffer fish neurotoxin in his home. More »

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      Illinois  • fish  • poison  • toxin  • murder plot  • puffer fish  • hit job

    • Illinois Man Busted With Puffer Fish Toxin

      newser  |  CNN  |  Jul 1, 08 4:29 AM CDT

      Illinois Man Busted With Puffer Fish Toxin

      An Illinois man has been arrested for possession of a deadly neurotoxin found in puffer fish, reports CNN. Authorities were alerted after the man, claiming to be a doctor, attempted to purchase a significant amount of tetrodotoxin from a New Jersey lab. The poison—1,200 times more deadly than cyanide—can prove fatal to consumers of puffer fish if the delicacy is not prepared properly. More »

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      fish  • poison  • toxin  • puffer fish

  • June 2008

    • Can Fish-Hungry Japan Go Sustainable?

      newser  |  Gourmet  |  Jun 26, 08 7:16 AM CDT

      Can Fish-Hungry Japan Go Sustainable?

      Japan loves its fish: The island nation consumes an average of 147 pounds per person a year, compared to America’s 17. So, Samuel Fromartz wonders in Gourmet , how can Japanese fisheries continue to support supermarket fish counters as large as an entire US meat section? The answer, slowly gaining ground, is sustainable fishing, and retailers’ desire to have an eco-friendly stamp. More »

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      Japan  • fish  • Tokyo  • tuna  • sushi  • sustainability

    • Scientists Find Fossil of Most Primitive 4-Legged Creature

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jun 26, 08 2:08 AM CDT

      Scientists Find Fossil of Most Primitive 4-Legged Creature

      Scientists have found a partial skeleton of the world's most primitive four-legged creature— a water-dwelling tetrapod—in Latvia, AP reports. The four-foot-long fish eater resembles a small alligator and likely belongs to an extinct offshoot of the four-legged family tree. The fossil is 365 million years old—predating dinosaurs by 100 million years. More »

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      evolution  • fish  • scientific discoveries  • scientists

    • Overfishing Oceans Leads to 'Rise of Slime'

      newser  |  Christian Science Monitor  |  Jun 21, 08 6:00 AM CDT

      Overfishing Oceans Leads to 'Rise of Slime'

      Overfishing results in more than just the depletion of one species—it can mean the degradation of entire ecosystems. As the populations of large, predatory fish such as sharks and tuna decline, their prey flourishes, with sometimes-devastating results. The Christian Science Monitor looks at the problem of the world's increasingly depleted oceans. More »

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      environment  • fish  • ocean  • fishing  • environmental damage  • environmental impact  • overfishing

    • Alaskan Salmon Sick of Climate Change

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 14, 08 7:24 PM CDT

      Alaskan Salmon Sick of Climate Change

      Alaskan king salmon are getting sick, and experts have named a culprit: global warming. Marine ecologists say that a rise in "white spot disease" is tied to a 3-decade trend of higher temperatures in the Yukon River, the Los Angeles Times reports. With cold-temperature barriers melting, parasites and bacteria are moving north—and threatening Alaska's prized salmon stock. More »

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      global warming  • disease  • Alaska  • fish  • fishing  • salmon  • parasite

    • It's Time to Give Up Salmon

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 9, 08 8:16 AM CDT

      It's Time to Give Up Salmon

      Salmon is supposed to be the perfect indulgence: low in saturated fats, high in omega-3 fatty acids, cheaper than ever at your local supermarket. But Taras Grescoe thinks you should stop eating it anyway. Wild salmon populations are dying off, he writes in the New York Times , thanks mostly to man-made habitat problems and overfishing. And the farmed salmon that's taken over grocery store shelves is not the healthy alternative it appears to be. More »

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      environment  • fish  • salmon  • pesticide  • omega-3 fatty acids

    • Sure, Pat That Nose— It's Only a Great White

      newser  |  Smithsonian  |  Jun 1, 08 8:53 PM CDT

      Sure, Pat That Nose&mdash; It's Only a Great White

      Want to pat a great white shark's nose? Or ride its fin for 100 yards? Experts say the much-feared predators are so sociable and curious, you can swim with them or even tread water by their open jaws. "Unlike most fish, white sharks are intelligent, highly inquisitive creatures," one expert tells Paul Raffaele for his worldwide Smithsonian survey. More »

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      endangered species  • fish  • shark attack  • great white shark

  • May 2008

    • No Octopi for Wings Fans, Seller Says

      newser  |  Detroit Free Press  |  May 23, 08 8:33 PM CDT

      No Octopi for Wings Fans, Seller Says

      Red Wings fans, save room in that suitcase—it may be tough to buy an octopus in Pittsburgh next week. One steel-town fishmonger refuses to sell octopi to Detroit fans once the Wings-Penguins Stanley Cup finals kick off on Saturday. In a tradition spanning more than 50 years, Detroit fans have been tossing eight-leggers on the ice to boost their team, the Detroit Free Press reports. More »

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      hockey  • Detroit Red Wings  • Pittsburgh Penguins  • fish  • fans  • ice  • traditions  • octopus

    • Fish Clean Up Mortgage Mess

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  May 9, 08 3:59 PM CDT

      Fish Clean Up Mortgage Mess

      Stagnant pools bursting with mosquitoes have become a byproduct of the housing crisis, turning into breeding grounds for diseases like West Nile virus. But, the Wall Street Journal reports, there is a solution: Gambusia affinis , a natural predator, also known as the mosquito fish, that's hardy enough to police abandoned watering holes from Florida to California. More »

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      subprime crisis  • foreclosure  • disease  • fish  • West Nile virus  • swimming pool

    • Fishermen Shoot Sea Lions in Battle Over Salmon

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  May 5, 08 11:43 AM CDT

      Fishermen Shoot Sea Lions in Battle Over Salmon

      Six  federally protected sea lions were shot to death along the Columbia River in Washington yesterday as they lay in traps set to move them to another region, AP reports. Three elephant seals were killed the previous day in California. All were apparently the victims of a battle between fishermen and the animals that feed on endangered salmon. Officials had planned to move up to 85 seals a year out of the Washington area, but have now suspended trapping as they investigate. More »

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      fish  • salmon  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

    • Japanese Fight Over Detoxed Delicacy

      newser  |  New York Times  |  May 4, 08 7:14 AM CDT

      Japanese Fight Over Detoxed Delicacy

      One of Japan's prized delicacies is having an identity crisis: fugu, the pricey puffer fish that's poisonous unless prepared correctly, now has a farmed cousin that's harmless, the New York Times reports. But gourmands looking forward to eating fugu liver—the most delicious and potentially deadly part of the fish—are being thwarted by the fugu industry, which is fighting to keep a ban on the livers, even from detoxed variety. More »

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      Japan  • food  • fish  • poison  • ban  • delicacy  • fugu

  • April 2008

    • Alarmed Feds Cancel Salmon Season

      newser  |  San Francisco Chronicle  |  Apr 11, 08 5:10 AM CDT

      Alarmed Feds Cancel Salmon Season

      In drastic action to stop the collapse of the West Coast salmon population, a federal fisheries council is banning salmon fishing off California and most of Oregon for the rest of the year, reports the San Francisco Chronicle . "This is a disaster," said the council chairman. The number of salmon spawning in California's Sacramento River system has plunged some 94% in six years. More »

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      California  • fish  • Oregon  • salmon  • fishing ban  • Pacific Fishery Management Council

  • March 2008
  • February 2008

    • Gulf Fish Cause Food Poisoning

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Feb 6, 08 8:41 AM CST

      Gulf Fish Cause Food Poisoning

      The Food and Drug Administration has confirmed outbreaks of food poisoning among people eating fish from the northern Gulf of Mexico. Ciguatera poisoning is caused by toxins from poisonous algae that have accumulated in the tissue of large fish. The higher the fish is on the food chain, the more poison can build up, so fish like grouper, snapper, amberjack, and barracuda are the most dangerous, reports the AP. More »

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      fish  • Gulf of Mexico  • food poisoning  • nausea  • vomiting  • joint pain

  • January 2008

    • 'Sushi Capital' Japan Isn't Sweating Tuna Scare

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jan 27, 08 5:35 AM CST

      'Sushi Capital' Japan Isn't Sweating Tuna Scare

      New Yorkers may be in the throes of a sushi scare after the Times reported on the dangerous mercury levels in tuna, but the Japanese aren't batting an eyelid. One official's biggest concern was that the controversy would ignite "groundless rumors" about a healthy food, AP reports. "We're not talking about eating 10 tuna sushi every day—in which case I might be a little worried," said one sushi lover. More »

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      health  • Japan  • fish  • tuna  • sushi  • mercury

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