Ottawa to slash red tape for fish farms

WTF Canada?

The Harper government is laying the regulatory groundwork for a resurgence of the controversial B.C. fish farm industry.

Bureaucratic hurdles and legal uncertainty are being swept away as part of an attempt to help the Canadian industry, which has stagnated for years, to take advantage of rising global demand for seafood, according to testimony by top officials before a Senate committee.

The regulatory changes include a planned exemption from a Fisheries Act prohibition against dumping harmful substances in the ocean, though government and industry officials say the change won’t alter current practices or pose environmental threats.

LINK (via:The Vancouver Sun)

How Many Fish Does Gollum Need?

Gollum lives on an island in an underground lake, right? He lives on fish and stuff that he can steal from the goblins. How often would he have to eat?

LINK (via:Wired)

Rainbow trout genome sequenced

Using fish bred at Washington State University, an international team of researchers has mapped the genetic profile of the rainbow trout.

LINK (via:Phys.Org)

Tracking the World’s Largest Salmon With Sonar

I bet taimen was not what came to mind after reading that headline.

These fish, more widely known as taimen (“TIE-men”), split early from the salmon evolutionary tree.  These ancient fish are found only in Asia. One characteristic certainly sets them apart from all others in the great salmon family – they are the biggest, capable of reaching over 2 meters (6 feet) in length and living over 30 years.

LINK (via National Geographic)

Big Mouth Billy Bass...

Is there anything he can't do?

Big Mouth Billy Bass apparently got the best of a would-be burglar in Minnesota.

Authorities in Rochester say the motion-activated singing fish apparently scared off an intruder who tried to break into the Hooked on Fishing bait and tackle shop.

LINK (via: RYOT)

New Aquarium of the Pacific exhibit to honor steelhead

The new $850,000 display will depict the steelhead's journey from mountain streams to the Pacific and is meant to spawn support for restoring the fish's habitat.

The last steelhead in the Los Angeles River was a 25-incher caught off a bridge in Glendale in 1940, two years after that stretch was paved. Today, the region's steelhead population hovers around 500 — 10% of what it was seven decades ago.

LINK (via: The LA Times)