Fish in
the
News.
Each
week the
Bailey
Brothers
start
the Pet
Fish
Talk
Show
with
some fun
and
interesting
stories
about
fish in
the
news.
Pictures:
The
top
picture
shows
Kasatka,
a female
Killer
Whale,
shown
feeding
at
SeaWorld
in San
Diego,
California,
where
she
recently
bit one
of her
trainers.
The
bottom
pictures
shows a
One-Spot
Fox-Faced Rabbitfish,
a
venomous
tropical
fish,
like the
one that
barbed
its
owner in
New
Jersey
this
week.
Photo
Credit:
SIO/UCSD.
In New
Jersey
Man
Barbed
by Venomous
Aquarium Fish.
An East
Rockaway
man
required
medical
attention
after he
was
barbed
by a
venomous
tropical
fish
Tuesday
night,
just
hours
after
buying
the $40
pet, the
man and
Nassau
police
said
Wednesday.
Fish
hobbyist
Thomas
Adelis,
19, of
East
Rockaway,
was
hospitalized
after
his one
spot
Fox-faced
Rabbitfish,
which
uses
venom as
a
defense
mechanism,
struck
his left
index
finger
about
9:30
p.m.
Adelis
suffered
the
injury
while
trying
to free
the fish
after it
became
stuck in
a water
pump in
his
75-gallon
home
aquarium.
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here
to read
the
entire
story.
In San
Diego,
California
Killer
Whale
Bites
Trainer.
Chris, a
listener
to Pet
Fish
Talk,
called
and left
a
message
on our
new
phone
answering
machine
about
the killer
whale at
SeaWorld
in San
Diego,
California,
that bit a
trainer's
foot and
took him
to the
bottom
of the
tank
twice
during
the
final
afternoon
performance
yesterday,
officials
said.
The
33-year-old
trainer
was
alert
and
conscious
when
paramedics
took him
to UCSD
Medical
Center.
The
extent
of his
injury
was not
known, a
SeaWorld
spokesman
said.
The
female
orca,
Kasatka,
was
supposed
to shoot
out of
the
water
upright
so the
trainer
could
dive off
its nose
– a show
finale
repeated
thousands
of
times,
said
Mike
Scarpuzzi,
vice
president
of
zoology
at
SeaWorld.
Instead,
Kasatka
grabbed
the
trainer's
foot and
dived to
the
bottom
of the
36-foot
tank.
They
surfaced
less
than a
minute
later,
but she
ignored
other
trainers'
signals
to draw
her to
the
side,
Scarpuzzi
said.
The orca
dived a
second
time
with the
trainer
for
about a
minute.
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here
to read
the
entire
story in
SignOnSanDiego.
Click
here
to see
an
actual
picture
of the
attack.
In Idaho
Scientists
Experiment
with
Fish
Farming.
"Just wanted to share this info. Listen to all your shows. Here is the story. Ted from Santa Maria" Hi Ted, thank you for your email and the link to this story ...
At the Idaho Aquaculture Research Institute's four-acre facility in a little hollow above the Snake River, a garage-turned-greenhouse is home to angel fish, koi, tiger barbs and tetras. It's here that research farm manager Michael Casten steals spare minutes away from raising thousands of trout to work with 70 ornamental species.
"We're just learning how to breed them, how many eggs they lay, how long it takes them to get to market size," he said. "We had one diet that seemed to make them spawn better, or at least more frequently, with more and better eggs. We want to follow up on that."
Ornamental experts say industry newcomers face big hurdles, even though Idaho has plentiful geothermal water that dots the landscape from Yellowstone National Park to the Oregon line.
Imports from countries such as Singapore and Malaysia grew 10 percent in the first half of 2006 to $26.3 million, as lower-cost Asian producers take a bigger bite out of a mature North American industry.
"It's not a golden opportunity just waiting to be plucked," said Craig Watson, University of Florida's Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory director. "It's a global industry with lots of competition, and there are many established players."
It's also a daunting prospect to develop marketing and distribution strategies like those long in place in Florida to get gouramis or swordtails swiftly to pet shops in America's $2.5 billion aquarium industry, said Gary Fornshell, the University of Idaho's aquaculture extension agent in Twin Falls.
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