Segment One 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.     Gennie Barnes prepares turtle eggs to be sanitized against Salmonella. Photo credit: Terrance Armstard/The (Monroe) News-Star   Odd Creature caught somewhere in the Congo. Click here to see more.     In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Man Swims the entire Amazon River in 65 days. After 3,272 miles of exhaustion, sunburn, delirium and piranhas, a 52-year-old Slovenian successfully completed a swim down the Amazon River Saturday that could set a world record for distance - something he's already done three times before. After nine weeks, Martin Strel arrived near the city of Belem, the capital of the jungle state of Para, ending a swim almost as long as the drive from Miami to Seattle. Strel averaged about 50 miles a day since beginning his odyssey at the source of the world's second-longest river in Peru on Feb. 1. Click here to read the entire story.   In Louisiana Turtle Farmers Hope to Lift Ban on Sales. Until the mid-1970s, mothers across America regularly grimaced when they entered their sons' rooms and smelled the stagnant water in the pet turtles' bowls - stinky, yes, but never thought of as harmful or even deadly. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, seeking ways to stem salmonellosis, the intestinal ailment caused by Salmonella, in 1975 imposed a nationwide ban on the sale or distribution within the United States of turtles with shells smaller than 4 inches - the size commonly sold as pets in stores in every city and small town. Now that scientists at LSU have developed a procedure to make baby turtles 99.9 percent Salmonella-free, two Louisiana congressmen, Sen. David Vitter and Rep. Rodney Alexander, have introduced legislation directing the FDA to lift the ban. Click here to read more.   From the UK and Spain Aquaculture is Emerging as a Revolution in Agriculture. Domestication of marine species is now racing ahead at 3.3% a year - far faster than the rate for land animals at any time in human history, they claim. A report in the journal Science said "aquaculture" was a new phenomenon that had only started to have an impact in the 20th century. Of all the aquatic animals and plants now farmed, 97% had only been domesticated since the early 20th century - a total of 430 species. More than 100 of those species were domesticated in the last 10 years. In future, aquatic agriculture was likely to transform food production, said the scientists led by Dr Carlos Duarte, from Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudios Avanzados in Mallorca, Spain. They wrote: "Aquaculture is emerging as a revolution in agriculture of global importance to humankind." Click here to read more.   In Texas A new Test Screens Fish for 25 Drugs at the Same Time. Amid growing concern about the accumulation of pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) in fish and other aquatic organisms, scientists in Texas are reporting development of the first method that can screen fish for several different groups of drugs at the same time. In the report, C. Kevin Chambliss and colleagues note that previous tests for detecting PPCPs in water, sediment and other environmental material could identify only individual medications or classes of medications, such as antibiotics. And there were just a few methods for measuring certain drug residues in fish tissue. "We report the first multi-residue screening method for pharmaceuticals representing multiple therapeutic classes in fish tissue," the report states. It involves a way of preparing samples that is simpler and less-time consuming than existing methods and can simultaneously monitor fish for 25 drugs. Click here to read the original article.   Segment Two   Segment Three   Segment Four   A Big Sincere Thank-you for calling during the show to Andrew from Calgary, Canada The Bailey Brothers encourage YOU to call Pet Fish Talk during the show and talk about your pet fish.     Download of this Entire Show Here's how: Right-Click here, then click on "Save Target (or Link) As ...".  Navigate to the folder you prefer, and click on the button labeled "Save". Later you can copy the MP3-file to your iPod or other MP3-player. You can also burn files to CDs, then play them in a CD-player.  Click here to download the PodCast for this show. Click here to buy an MP3-enabled CD-Player, or click here to buy an MP3-Player, or click here to buy an Apple iPod, which can all play Pet Fish Talk Shows.     There are lots of Pet Fish Talk Shows. Click here now to go to the Archive, where you'll find links to more than 360 Pet Fish Talk Shows.   Click here to go to our Search Page, where you can search for any topic that we have discussed in any show.