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fish stories: 69 news summaries

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Eco Warriors Green Around Gills Over Wrong Trout fight

'Science happens,' says fish biologist

Oct 14, 07 9:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Oops. Conservationists apparently have been fighting for 20 years to protect the Colorado River cutthroat trout. The halibut is, they were supposed to be protecting another, similar species, the greenback cutthroat trout. “Hey, science happens,” said a biologist after studies revealed many of the "saved" fish were... More »

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endangered species • fish • Greenback cutthroat trout • Colorado River cutthroat trout • biologists

Let Them
Eat Fish!

Scientists' advice that pregnant women eat seafood contradicts fed mercury warnings

Oct 4, 07 5:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Contrary to federal FDA recommendations, pregnant women and nursing mothers should eat at least 12 ounces of seafood a week to help promote fetal brain development, according to the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition. The government has been warning moms-to-be and nursing mothers not to eat more than 12... More »

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pregnancy • women's health • fish • baby • methyl mercury • seafood • breast feeding • nursing • omega-3 fatty acids

Salmon Made
to Bear Trout

Success shows sterile animals could
become surrogates
for extinct species

Sep 14, 07 6:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cue the world’s most peculiar baby announcement: Masu salmon have produced rainbow trout offspring, with an assist from scientists that could lead to the preservation of rare fish species. Trout sperm stem cells had already been injected into salmon embryos to produce salmon with trout sperm; now the same... More »

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breeding • sperm • salmon • eggs • fish • trout

10 Gourmet Restaurant Swindles

As eateries cut costs, watch out for cheap shortcuts

Aug 22, 07 9:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - As the price of food goes up, what cost-cutting measures at restaurants might end up on your plate? The Independent lists 10 shortcuts, swindles and downright lies you should be wary of.
  1. Lookalike fish species
  2. Supermarket-bought salads
  3. Instant powdered eggs and potatoes
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food • salmon • list • fish • restaurant • scam • gourmet

Snakehead Shake Up Fishermen

Invasive species could be ecological disaster or next big thing in angling

Jul 8, 07 10:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - It's ugly, it's mean, and it's seductively hard to hook. The Snakehead fish, a native of East Asia and recent immigrant to the Potomac River watershed, has divided those wary of its potential environmental impact and those who see it as the next big thing in sport fishing. Some entrepreneurial... More »

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environment • fish • fishing

Polluted
Fish Swamp Great Lakes

Industrial chemicals raise contaminant levels into range unsafe for eating

Jul 6, 07 4:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Industrial chemicals contaminate many species of fish that populate the Great Lakes, making them too hazardous for safe human consumption, says a Canadian conservation group. "The lakes continue to be polluted to such an extent that human health is threatened," says a report released yesterday that lists industrial... More »

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environment • pollution • environmentalism • Canada • salmon • fish • pollutants • pike • trout • Great Lakes • Huron • Lake Superior • Lake Eerie • Lake Ontario • dioxins • PCBs • methyl mercury

Flying Fish
Crash Into Boaters

Once-endangered sturgeon weigh up to 200 lbs, can't be killed

Jul 4, 07 5:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Boaters on Florida’s Suwannee River have been knocked unconscious by "sturgeon strikes" as the muscular fish rocket through the air, the New York Times reports. The  collisions  have caused a broken pelvis, shattered leg and a slashed throat. The fish, which can weigh up to 200 pounds, have... More »

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Florida • weird • fish • Suwannee River • sturgeon • animal

Chinese PR Combats
Export Rap

Enemies in Washington stymie effort to promote food products called unsafe

Jun 30, 07 11:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - China is on a public relations blitz to keep its exports solvent after nonstop coverage of unsafe toothpaste, fish and even tires in the US, China's largest customer, last week. Beijing broke its pattern of protest over the coverage, shutting down 180 offending factories and promising consumers that tainted food... More »

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China • food • health • toothpaste • fish • safety • contamination • public relations

Tuna Shortage Triggers
Sushi Crisis

Japanese chefs resort to deer and even
horse meat

Jun 25, 07 4:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Plummeting supplies of tuna have become a recipe for disaster in Japan, where sushi lovers eat 60,000 tons of the fish a year. Desperate chefs are experimenting with increasingly bizarre sushi substitutes, including deer and even horse, the New York Times reports. But sushi without tuna in Japan is... More »

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food • Japan • tuna • fish • horse • deer • sushi

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