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Entries in fish in the news (543)

Wednesday
Sep012010

How much wood would a catfish eat if a catfish could eat wood?

Wait, what?

A new species of armored, Amazonian catfish that eats wood from fallen logs.

LINK (Via: Cool Green Science - The Conservation Blog of the Nature Conservacy)

Wednesday
Sep012010

A Fish Called Shrek?

Scuba divers discover an unusual Asian sheepshead wrasse off the coast of Japan that they are calling 'Shrek' because its face resembles the animated character.

Looks more like John Merrick than it does Shrek.

LINK (Via: THe Huffington Post)

Monday
Aug302010

Nuke plant's hatchery churns out healthy fish

In cartoons, fish that grow up in waters around nuclear power plants end up with three eyes or some other deformity.

In reality, Exelon Nuclear's Quad-Cities Generating Station in Cordova, Ill., operates the only privately owned fish hatchery on the Mississippi River and has reared and released about 6 million healthy fish since 1984.

LINK (Via: The Quad City Times)

Celebrity fly fishing at 2 Mile Island.

Saturday
Aug212010

California’s Wild Steelhead Protections Upheld by Federal Appeals Court

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected an attempt to strip protected status from wild steelhead trout in California’s Central Valley.

A group of Central Valley irrigators had argued that ocean-going Central Valley steelhead population should be removed from the endangered species list based on their opinion that freshwater rainbow trout – which never go to sea – might someday replace extinct steelhead populations.

LINK (Via: YubaNet)

This just in!

Central Valley irrigators vowed to appeal based on their opinion that freshwater rainbow trout might someday fly out of their collective ass.

Sunday
Aug152010

'I have seen a big pike jump in the net and eat the fish before but never a frog."

LINK (Via:The Daily Mail)

Friday
Aug132010

Large bait fish kill on the Joisey Shore

View more news videos at: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/video.

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