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 Live Fish Dinner 
 on YouTube 
 Sparks 
 Uproar 

PETA rips cruel food video

Nov 19, 09 4:34 AM CST
(Newser) - Footage of Chinese diners tucking into a still-breathing fish has outraged animal rights groups. The video, which has attracted thousands of viewers on YouTube, shows the fish being picked apart with chopsticks as diners laugh and the fish gapes. It had been kept alive during cooking with a wet towel... More »

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China • YouTube • animal cruelty • fish • PETA • Chinese food

fired up

 Cigarette Butts Are 
 Toxic Waste: Study 

Cigarette-soaked water kills fish

Nov 9, 09 5:30 PM CST
(Newser) - The chemicals in cigarette butts are lethal to fish, and the finding is bolstering researchers who want coffin nails classified as toxic waste. San Diego State University researchers submerged filters from smoked cigarettes in tanks of water for 24 hours, then added fish. Within 5 days, half the fish died.... More »

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pollution • smoking • ocean • fish • carcinogens • toxic waste • cigarette

 Mediterranean Diet 
 Beats the Blues 

Study finds diet cuts risk of depression by nearly a third

Oct 6, 09 8:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Mediterranean diet has been shown to cut the risk of cancer and heart disease and researchers now say it can help prevent depression as well. Spanish researchers followed 10,000 subjects for nearly 5 years and found that, even when personality traits and other factors were taken into account,... More »

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depression • diet • fish • serotonin • Mediterranean diet

Overfishing Plagues
Filet-O-Fish's Main Ingredient

New Zealand's hoki center of overfishing controversy

Sep 10, 09 10:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - What exactly is the fish in a Filet-O-Fish sandwich? It’s a bug-eyed creature from New Zealand called the hoki, and it is apparently under pressure from overfishing, the New York Times reports. New Zealand—while not specifically citing that cause—has been cutting the allowable catch as conservation groups... More »

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environment • McDonald's • fast food • fish • New Zealand • overfishing • hoki

DNA Testing Snags Fish Imposters

Restaurants often swap cheap fish for pricey ones on menu

Aug 24, 09 8:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - If you ordered grouper ($12 per pound) at a restaurant, and the chef slipped you catfish ($2.50 per pound) instead, could you tell the difference? Most diners can’t, which is where Mahmood Shivji comes in. Shivji’s a DNA researcher, who’s developed a method of testing the... More »

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DNA • fish • restaurant • seafood

 Test Finds Mercury 
 in Every Fish 

A quarter contaminated beyond EPA safety limit

Aug 20, 09 12:04 PM CDT
(AP) - Catch a fish in one of America's streams, and there's a good chance it will have at least trace amounts of mercury. The most comprehensive survey to date from the US Geological Survey tested more than 1,000 fish from nearly 300 streams around the nation—and found mercury in... More »

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environment • pollution • food contamination • fish • Environmental Protection Agency • trout • contamination • power plant • toxic • US Geological Survey • mercury

(Newser) - "A world of slime without human form": that was how Victor Hugo once described the Seine, the murky, polluted river that divides Paris in two. Yet recent efforts to clean up the river, from skimming the surface to pumping it with oxygen, have led to a resurgent fish population... More »

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pollution • France • salmon • fish • fishing • Paris

(Newser) - Many people quake at the mention of anchovies, but if history is any judge, those people are dead wrong, Howard Yoon writes for NPR. In the past, the fish was “so highly prized that it was used to make a condiment, garum, during the Roman Empire that cost as... More »

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fish • seafood • umami • anchovy • packaging • condiment • preserved

'Makeovers' Spell Doom
for Oceans' Ugliest Fish

Even the once-shunned are now overfished

Jul 31, 09 6:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Don't like the sound of slimefish fillets? How about some orange roughy instead? Efforts to "rebrand" ugly, unpopular types of fish to make them more palatable to consumers have been successful—too successful, the Washington Post reports. Many species once considered "trash fish" have become dangerously depleted... More »

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fish • marine life • overfishing • fishery • fishermen

Climate Change Shrinks Fish in Europe

Smaller creatures reproduce less, provide less food for predators

Jul 21, 09 1:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Europe’s fish are physically shrinking as water temperatures climb, according to a German study that examined everything from fish to plankton to bacteria, der Spiegel reports. Researchers don’t believe over-fishing or other factors can explain away the findings, either. “Our study provides strong evidence that temperature actually... More »

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climate change • global warming • fish

PETA Protests Seattle Fish-Flinging

Fishmongers nonplussed by PETA effort to defend the dignity of dead fish

Jun 13, 09 5:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - PETA has called foul on the antics of Seattle's famous fishmongers, the Los Angeles Times reports. Workers at the city's Pike Place market routinely chuck fish more than a dozen feet from display case to counter over the heads of shoppers with deadly accuracy. PETA says the practice is "... More »

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fish • fishing • animal rights • PETA • Seattle

Kim Jong Il's Fave Meal:
Live Fish

Ex-cook says N. Korean leader's dinners were still moving

Jun 3, 09 1:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - For a taste treat, North Korea’s leader prefers live fish with wines and brandies, the Sun reports. “He particularly enjoyed raw fish so fresh that he could start eating as its mouth is still gasping and the tail is still thrashing,” his former cook, who is writing... More »

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food • North Korea • dancing • fish • cook • Kim Jong Il

 Sharks Enjoy a Cuddle 


Jun 3, 09 3:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - British aquarium managers are going to begin training sharks with rewards and even hugs after US scientists have discovered that certain breeds of the toothsome fish enjoy human cuddles, reports the Telegraph. "Zebra sharks will even roll over to have their tummies scratched or allow themselves to be lifted... More »

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shark • ocean • fish • captivity • sea • Jaws • training • scientific research • aquarium • Sea Life • animal training

Supreme Court Rules for Power Plants, Against Fish

EPA regulators can perform cost-benefit analysis before ordering upgrades: ruling

Apr 1, 09 1:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Federal regulators may perform cost-benefit analysis on new power plant equipment designed to protect fish, and decide whether to require the equipment based on that analysis, the Supreme Court ruled today. The 6-3 decision overturns an appellate court ruling that barred the EPA from performing cost-benefit analysis because it wasn't... More »

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Congress • environment • Antonin Scalia • fish • power plant • John Paul Stevens • environmental impact • EPA

Eating Red Meat Daily
Raises Death Risk: Study

Experts say cutting red meat consumption could save many lives

Mar 24, 09 3:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Daily consumption of red meat has been linked to higher mortality rates in the most comprehensive study on the subject ever made, the Washington Post reports. Researchers studied more than 500,000 middle-aged and elderly Americans and found that those who consumed 4 ounces of red meat a day were... More »

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cancer • heart disease • beef • meat • diet • fish • red meat • poultry • pork • meat consumption

 Fishing Hooks Cash-Strapped 

Growing number of Americans going fishing as times get tougher

Mar 19, 09 3:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - The floundering economy means boom times for America's angling industry, Reuters reports. Bait-shop owners say they've had one of the best winters in memory as layoffs and cutbacks give workers a lot more free time to fish. Families are finding a day fishing makes a good alternative to costlier outings—... More »

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fish • recession • fishing • leisure • ice fishing

 Fla. Bans Fish Pedicures 

Cosmetology board cites rules on animals in salons, sanitation concerns

Feb 24, 09 3:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Fish pedicures—in which small carp eat dead skin from clients’ feet—have been banned in Florida, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The state’s Board of Cosmetology determined that the practice, introduced last year, violated a ban on animals in salons, as well as sanitation requirements that mandate disinfecting of... More »

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Florida • fish • spa • cosmetics • pedicure

Climate Change May Tank World's Fish Stocks

Scientists predict huge upheaval to marine populations

Feb 13, 09 8:03 AM CST
(Newser) - The world's supplies of fish face major upheaval, scientists warn, as climate change forces species from shrimp to herring away from warming waters toward the poles. The BBC reports that in 40 years, American fishermen may see a 50% reduction in the population of Atlantic cod. "The impact of... More »

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climate change • environment • fish • fishing • marine biology • fishermen • cod

Acidic Oceans Could
Confuse Fish: Study

Global warming hiking up oceanic acidity levels

Feb 3, 09 9:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Climate change could be a disaster for marine life, a new study finds. As the atmosphere fills with CO2, the ocean absorbs it, and becomes more acidic, Wired reports, and clownfish, which navigate by scent, lose their ability to do so in water as acidic as the ocean is expected... More »

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climate change • ocean • fish • scientific study • acidification

Rename Fish
'Sea Kittens,' PETA Urges

Opponents find campaign 'hard to
take seriously'

Jan 9, 09 12:46 PM CST
(Newser) - PETA thinks fish need some PR help. “People don’t seem to like fish,” says the group’s website. But “nobody would hurt a sea kitten!” That's the theory behind PETA’s latest campaign, which includes a petition calling on the Fish and Wildlife Service to... More »

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fish • PETA • sea kittens

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