News tagged with trout species

Changing climate could cut western trout habitat in half: study

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study shows a changing climate could reduce trout habitat in the Western United States by about 50 percent over the next 70 years, with some trout species experiencing greater declines than others. ...

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Fishy consequences of transplanting trout, salmon, whitefishes

Not all trout are created equal. Those swimming up the streams of British Columbia might resemble their cousins from Quebec, yet their genetic makeup is regionally affected and has an impact on how they reproduce, ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research aims to cool runoff to protect coldwater streams

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ocean of stormwater that flows off of the sun-baked urban landscape is packing heat, and trout are starting to feel it.

Space & Earth / Environment

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Deadly Parasite Could Endanger Salmon and Trout Populations

Stocks of the UK’s Atlantic salmon along with varieties of domestic Brown trout could be under threat from a deadly parasite according to research led Bournemouth University (BU) published in the International Jou ...

Biology / Ecology

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DNA evidence shows that marine reserves help to sustain fisheries

Researchers reporting online on May 24 in the Cell Press journal Current Biology present the first evidence that areas closed to all fishing are helping to sustain valuable Australian fisheries. The intern ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The gut could reveal effect of climate change on fish

As sea temperatures rise, stocks of some fish species can decline while others may grow, reveals new research from the University of Gothenburg looking at gastrointestinal function in fish.

Biology / Ecology

created May 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stream temperatures don't parallel warming climate trend

A new analysis of streams in the western United States with long-term monitoring programs has found that despite a general increase in air temperatures over the past several decades, streams are not necessarily warming at ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Gray seals consume as much fish as the fishing industry catches

The grey seals in the Baltic Sea compete for fish with the fishing industry. The seals locally eat about the same quantities of cod, common whitefish, salmon, sea trout and eel as those taken by fishermen. This is the conclusion ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists call for no-take coral sea park

More than 300 eminent scientists from 21 other countries around the world today urged the Australian Federal Government to create the world's largest no-take marine reserve in the Coral Sea.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Genetic buzzer-beater genes may save fish

Two distinct populations of rainbow trout -- one in Alaska, the other in Idaho -- share a genetic trait that could have huge implications for fisheries conservation and management, an eight-member research team reports.

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Salmon genome in final phases of completion

The International Cooperation to Sequence the Atlantic Salmon Genome (ICSASG, the "Cooperation") has awarded the Phase II contract for next-generation sequencing and analysis of the Atlantic salmon genome to the J. Craig ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gold rush hurts aquatic life

Gold prospectors chasing $1,600-an-ounce flecks in river bottoms east of Charlotte also might be sucking life out of the streams, experts say.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 06, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 8

Fish jump into picture of evolutionary land invasion

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research sometimes means looking for one thing and finding another. Such was the case when biology professor Alice Gibb and her research team at Northern Arizona University witnessed a small ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Mapping immune genes in salmon

Morten F. Lukacs' doctoral research at The Norwegian School of Veterinary Science has identified and mapped a group of immune genes that are the key to warding off infectious agents such as viruses and bacteria ...

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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