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.
Colossal Squid, measuring over
30 feet long, being lifted on
board a ship by
a crane.
Orange Sea Star
is one of the unusual creatures found by a recent Antarctic expedition.
Specially Designed Apron worn by a Australian woman trying to smuggle in prohibited fish.
In
Antarctica
Captain
who
Caught
Colossal
Squid
Relives
Moment.
The
skipper
of the
Nelson
trawler
that
netted
world's
biggest
and best
specimen
of an
adult
colossal
squid
says it
was a
dream
come
true for
him.
"I've
been a
fisherman
for 30
years
and have
always
dreamt
about
things
like
this,"
said
John
Bennett,
48.
"I've
read all
the
famous
books
like
Twenty
Thousand
Leagues
Under
The Sea,
and this
really
was like
something
from
fiction."
He was
fishing
near
Antarctica
when the
squid
was
hauled
to the
surface
while
dining
on a
Toothfish
hooked
at a
depth of
about
1800m.
Click
here
to read
more.
From
Japan
Video
Shows
Deep Sea
Squid
Attacking
at High
Speed.
Once
thought
to be a
slumbering
drifter
of a
beast,
the
first
ever
video
footage
of the
deep-sea
large
squid
shows it
to be a
fast
moving
predator
which
uses
luminous
flashes
to stun
its
prey.
The
behavior
of the
squid -
Taningia
danae -
was
captured
by a new
underwater
video
camera
system
developed
by
Japanese
scientists.
Click
here
to see
the
video.
In
Antarctica
An Ice
Melt
Reveals
Exotic
Creatures.
Spindly
orange
sea
stars,
fan-finned
ice fish
and
herds of
roving
sea
cucumbers
are
among
the
exotic
creatures
spied
off the
Antarctic
coast in
an area
formerly
covered
by ice,
scientists
reported
Sunday.
This is
the
first
time
explorers
have
been
able to
catalog
wildlife
where
two
mammoth
ice
shelves
used to
extend
for some
3,900
square
miles
over the
Weddell
Sea. At
least
5,000
years
old, the
ice
shelves
collapsed
in two
stages
over the
last
dozen
years.
One
crumbled
12 years
ago and
the
other
followed
in 2002.
Global
warming
is seen
as the
culprit
behind
the ice
shelves'
demise,
said
Gauthier
Chapelle
of the
Polar
Foundation
in
Brussels.
"These
kind of
collapses
are
expected
to
happen
more,"
he said.
"What
we're
observing
here is
probably
going to
happen
elsewhere
around
Antarctica."
Click
here
to read
more. We
thank
Mike
from
Austin,
Texas,
for
sending
us an
email
with the
link to
this
story.
From the
Bahamas
There
are
Aliens
among
Us!
There
are
aliens
among
us,
hiding
in plain
sight.
In our
towns;
our
homes,
even...
in our
refrigerators.
Some
have
been
here for
years;
others
are more
recent
arrivals.
There
are good
reasons
why
farmers
choose
to raise
alien
species
of fish,
mollusks
and
crustaceans:
they
frequently
offer
significant
benefits
-- they
grow
faster
and
bigger;
they are
hardier
and
easier
to
raise;
they
sell for
more at
market.
Click
here
to read
more.
From
Pittsburgh
People
see Pets
through
Rose-Tinted
Glasses.
We
always
knew it
but now
it’s
official
– pet
owners
have
rose-tinted
views of
their
animals.
People
even
become
defensive
on
behalf
of a
triangle
if told
it’s
“theirs”.
Pet
owners
notoriously
make
excuses
for
their
own
animal’s
bad
behaviour
while
condemning
that of
others.
They are
also
more
likely
to
anthropomorphise
their
own
animal’s
behaviour,
saying
“my dog
wants to
cheer me
up”, for
instance.
To
explore
this, a
team led
by
social
psychologist
Sara
Kiesler
from
Carnegie
Mellon
University
in
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania,
gave 82
university
staff
and
students
a
Siamese
fighting
fish to
look
after
for two
weeks.
Some
were
told
they
temporarily
“owned”
the
fish,
while
others
(“caretakers”)
were
told it
belonged
to
someone
else.
After a
fortnight,
95% of
owners
opted to
keep
their
fish,
compared
with 75%
of
caretakers.
The
owners
also
gave
significantly
higher
scores
reflecting
their
affection
for the
fish.
Those
most
fond of
their
fish
were
also
most
likely
to say
it was
smart
and
liked
them
too.“People
who own
and care
about a
pet are
much
more
likely
than
those
who just
know an
animal
to
anthropomorphise
the pet
and feel
that it
has
reasons
for its
choices,”
says
Kiesler.
Click
here
to read
more.
In
Australia
Woman,
who
Sounded
Fishy,
is
Sentenced.
A woman
was
sentenced
to nine
months
of
community
service
for
smuggling
protected
fish
from
Asia in
her
dress.
Sharon
Naismith,
45, was
caught
in June
2005 at
the
airport
in the
southern
city of
Melbourne,
Australia,
after
customs
officers
heard
'flipping'
noises
coming
from her
clothes
and
conducted
a
search,
Australian
Customs
said. In
a
specially
made
apron
under
her
dress,
they
found 15
plastic
bags
filled
with
water
and
fish:
one rare
Asian
Arowana
that
customs
said was
worth
tens of
thousands
of
dollars
...
Click
here
to read
more.
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