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  • May 2008

    • Fish Clean Up Mortgage Mess

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

      Fish Clean Up Mortgage Mess

      (Newser) - 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

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

      Fishermen Shoot Sea Lions in Battle Over Salmon

      (Newser) - 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 »

    • Japanese Fight Over Detoxed Delicacy

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

      Japanese Fight Over Detoxed Delicacy

      (Newser) - 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

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

      Alarmed Feds Cancel Salmon Season

      (Newser) - 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

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

      Gulf Fish Cause Food Poisoning

      (Newser) - 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  • barracuda

  • January 2008

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

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

      'Sushi Capital' Japan Isn't Sweating Tuna Scare

      (Newser) - 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

    • Mediterranean Fishermen Find There's A Catch

      Christian Science Monitor  |  Jan 16, 08 12:48 PM CST

      Mediterranean Fishermen Find There's A Catch

      (Newser) - Over-fishing is threatening the many species that fill the Mediterranean Sea—not to mention the livelihoods of local fishermen and the diets of the region's populace—but having 21 countries to deal with makes it difficult to wrangle out an agreement that would give stocks a chance to recover, the Christian Science Monitor reports. More »

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      fish  • fishing  • Mediterranean Sea

  • December 2007

    • Price of Gold: Alaska's Salmon

      Washington Post  |  Dec 25, 07 7:04 AM CST

      Price of Gold: Alaska's Salmon

      (Newser) - The world's largest sockeye salmon fishery, located in the Bristol Bay area of Alaska, is threatened with destruction by a proposed gold mine, which could become the biggest in North America. The planned Pebble Mine has polarized the state; mining companies, on the one hand, and environmentalists and commercial fishing interests, on the other, are waging fierce lobbying campaigns, the Washington Post reports. More »

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      Alaska  • fish  • salmon  • sockeye salmon

    • Scientists Try to Save Bluefin

      Washington Post  |  Dec 24, 07 4:50 PM CST

      Scientists Try to Save Bluefin

      (Newser) - Bluefin tuna can grow to three-quarters of a ton, traverse the Atlantic in less than a month, and are growing rapidly extinct—thanks to fishing practices that are "totally out of control," one US official said. Marine biologists who track Bluefin populations are finding their suggestions rejected by world governments. “We know enough to save this species,” one conservationist said. “We don’t have the will.” More »

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      fish  • conservation  • fishing  • Gulf of Mexico  • Atlantic Ocean  • tuna

    • Fish Farming Wiping Out Wild Salmon

      Washington Post  |  Dec 13, 07 11:01 PM CST

      Fish Farming Wiping Out Wild Salmon

      (Newser) - Fish farming could drive some species of wild salmon to extinction, a new study says. Canadian researchers found a direct connection between the growth of such farms in British Columbia and a sharp drop in wild salmon nearby, the Washington Post reports. They attribute the problem to deadly sea lice that thrives in the farms, then spreads to wild salmon that swim by the netted cage.  More »

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      farming  • fish  • salmon  • British Columbia  • seafood  • aquaculture

    • Deep, Dark Secrets Indeed

      New York Review of Books  |  Dec 8, 07 7:31 AM CST

      Deep, Dark Secrets Indeed

      (Newser) - Though the first deep-sea expedition took place in 1931, humans still know little about what goes on miles below sea level. What we do know is startlingly strange, Tim Flannery writes in a look at two new volumes in the New York Review of Books —and a rising tide of sewage is contaminating Earth's final "final frontier" faster than it can be studied. More »

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      fish  • ocean  • Atlantic Ocean  • Pacific Ocean  • sewage  • toxic waste

  • November 2007

    • Jelly-cide: 100,000 Salmon Killed

      AFP  |  Nov 22, 07 12:00 PM CST

      Jelly-cide: 100,000 Salmon Killed

      (Newser) - An attack of killer jellyfish has wiped out Northern Ireland’s only salmon farm. More than 100,000 fish died in the seven-hour attack, causing estimated losses of $2.1 million, AFP reports. The 35-foot-deep wave of jellyfish covered 10 square miles. The mauve stinger normally prefers warmer Mediterranean waters and has never been seen off British shores in such numbers. More »

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      agriculture  • fish  • fishing  • nature  • Northern Ireland  • salmon  • jellyfish

  • October 2007