News tagged with freshwater fish
Conflicts of Interest Affect Conservation Science
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a perfect world, scientific research is supposed to be completely objective and free of conflicts of interest. But University of South Florida researchers say that politics can overtake facts, with potentially ...
May 06, 2010 |
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Deadly fish virus now found in all Great Lakes
(PhysOrg.com) -- A deadly fish virus - viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus - first discovered in the Northeast in 2005, has been found for the first time in Lake Superior. The virus is now in all of the Great ...
Jan 27, 2010 |
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From arc to park
(PhysOrg.com) -- Parasite infections are an important threat in conservation biology, particularly to individuals that have been bred in captivity for release into the wild.
Jan 05, 2010 |
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Discovery opens new avenues for treating devastating freshwater fish parasite, 'Ich'
Researchers from the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine have made an "unexpected" dual discovery that could open new avenues for treating Ichthyophthirius multifiliis, or "Ich", a devastating ...
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Over 1,000 fish species 'threatened with extinction'
More than 1,000 freshwater fish species are threatened with extinction, reflecting the strain on global water resources, an updated global "Red List" of endangered species showed Tuesday.
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Freshwater fish at the top of the food chain evolve more slowly
For avid fishermen and anglers, the largemouth bass is a favorite freshwater fish with an appetite for minnows. A new study finds that once they evolved to eat other fish, largemouth bass and fellow fish-feeders ...
Jul 28, 2009 |
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Seaway's 50th anniversary soiled by invasive species
Fifty years ago Friday, President Dwight Eisenhower and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II walked down a red carpet, climbed aboard a "floating palace" of a yacht named Britannia and ceremoniously sailed through the St. Lambert ...
Jun 26, 2009 |
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Declining water quality threatens freshwater fish species with extinction
Increasing urbanisation and more intensive farming are killing New Zealand's freshwater fish species by degrading water quality, says the author of a report published this week by the Ministry for the Environment.
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Competition may have led to new dinosaur species in Grande Prairie area
(PhysOrg.com) -- The discovery of a gruesome feeding frenzy that played out 73 million years ago in northwestern Alberta may also lead to the discovery of new dinosaur species in northwestern Alberta.
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May 12, 2009 |
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Quagga mussels are clogging Hoover Dam, colonizing lakes and rivers
It took some of America's best engineers, thousands of laborers and two years of around-the-clock concrete pouring to build the 726-foot-high Hoover Dam back in the 1930s. It took less time than that for the tiny, brainless ...
Mar 02, 2009 |
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