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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.
Connected
Aquariums
There are two
fish tanks,
above on the
left and right,
and a Pipeline
connecting them.
The pipeline
is filled with
water and the
fish can swim
from one aquarium
to the other.
Click
here to
see more.
In
Bloomington,
a Suburb of
Minneapolis,
Minnesota,
Shark Attacks
Shark at the
Mall of America.
Shark attack
in Minnesota?
Who woulda thought?
Fortunately,
the victim was
another shark,
and that shark
survived. But
not before a
tunnel full
of aquarium
visitors experienced
a true, raw
display of nature.
Jessie, the
nine foot, 300
pound sand tiger
shark is the
biggest shark
in the Underwater
Adventures Aquarium
at the Mall
of America.
On Friday, she
chomped down
on a four and
a half foot,
50 pound white
tip reef shark.
Workers used
a pair of feeding
tongs to grab
the tail of
the reef shark,
pull and eventually
free the little
shark from Jessie's
death-grip.
The little shark
then swam to
the other end
of the tank
where a couple
more workers
yanked her out
just in time.
Experts say
a bleeding,
flailing fish
like the reef
shark would
not have lasted
a minute in
a tank full
of other sharks.
"They key in
on sick, weak
and old animals
and when there's
one that's compromised,
you never know
what can happen,"
said Craig Atkins,
the Animal Care
Team Leader
at Underwater
Adventures.
He continued:
"In the case
here it was
the smallest
shark in the
exhibit, this
is what happened
after several
months of no
problems, all
of a sudden
there's a problem."
Fortunately,
the female reef
shark will survive,
albeit with
scrapes and
bite marks along
her back. Her
caregivers expect
she'll need
some time to
recover. Meantime,
they don't plan
on returning
her or the other
white tipped
reef sharks
to the aquarium.
Click
here to
read more.
In the Mellewa
Forest, New
South Wales,
Australia,
Life-Saving
Water for a
Rare Australian
Fish.
A school of
rare native
fish, under
threat from
the drought
will receive
life-saving
water today
in a bid to
save them from
extinction.
The Southern
Pigmy Perch
live in a creek
in the Mellewa
State Forest,
near Deniliquin
in south west
NSW. The Murray-Darling
Basin Commission
and Forests
NSW have started
releasing a
small amount
of water into
the creek, which
has been monitored
since last September.
It significantly
deteriorated
after Christmas.
Click
here to
read more.
In
the Fraser
River in
Chilliwack,
Canada,
Anglers
hook
100-year-old
Sturgeon.
Two British
anglers
waded waist
deep into a
river to
land a
100-year-old
monster fish
weighing
over 35
stone -
after
battling
with it for
over an
hour. Nick
Calleya, 36,
from Cubert
in Cornwall
and George
Carstairs
from
Scotland
landed the
500lb white
Sturgeon
while
angling from
a boat in
the Fraser
River in
British
Columbia in
Canada. The
10-ft-long
giant was
snared using
a rod and
line with
salmon eggs
as bait. Click
here to read more.
Just
Offshore
from New
Jersey
5,000-pound
Manta Ray
Caught in
1934.
A GIANT
Manta Devil
Fish became
entangled in
the anchor
and anchor
rope of
Captain A.
L. Kahn’s
fishing
boat, while
he was
angling just
off the
shore of New
Jersey in
1934, and
almost
capsized the
heavy boat.
A Coast
Guard vessel
came to the
rescue, and
killed the
5,000-pound
monster
Manta
Birostris
with 22
shots from a
high-powered
rifle. The
sail-like
fish has
been mounted
and placed
on
exhibition
by Captain
Kahn. An
18-inch baby
Manta was
born shortly
after the
mother fish
was dragged
ashore.
These huge
ray fish are
seldom seen,
since they
live in the
deepest
parts of the
sea. Click
here to read more.
From Ghent
University
in Belgium
This
Catfish
Hunts on
Land,
Scientists
Report.
An eel-like
catfish can
wriggle out
of the water
to stalk
prey,
scientists
report. The
discovery
may shed
light on how
some
prehistoric
fish species
evolved into
land
animals.
Like many
fish, the
eel catfish
is a typical
suction
feeder when
it's in the
water. It
sucks in a
mouthful of
water—and
prey. But on
land the eel
catfish uses
a completely
different
method. The
creature
lifts the
front part
of its body
and bends
its head
down toward
the ground.
This ability
is essential
to thriving
on land ... Click
here to read more.
At the
Hatfield
Marine
Science
Center in
Newport,
Oregon,
Scientists
are Breaking
the Salmon
Code.
The secret
to salmon
protection
may be
written in
DNA codes.
And
according to
Michael
Banks, shown
above, a
geneticist
with the
Oregon State
University
Hatfield
Marine
Science
Center in
Newport,
scientists
are well on
their way to
cracking
that code
for chinook
salmon. At
the Columbia
Forum
Thursday,
Banks told a
group of
about 50
people in
the Duncan
Law Seafood
Consumer
Center about
the role
genetics
could play
in salmon
fishery
management
and
marketing.
Banks is
leading the
genetics
study for
the
Collaborative
Research on
Oregon Ocean
Salmon (CROOS)
project,
which uses
DNA to track
individual
stocks of
chinook
salmon in
the ocean. Click
here to read more.
Callers during this Show
Heather from Point Loma
in San Diego, California, calls and talks about her mother's
25-year old 10-gallon aquarium, which now has a Bushy Nose
Pleco, a Siamese Algae Eater, and a small Paradise Fish.
Tony from B.C., Canada,
calls and asks about putting his 3" Pleco in the same
aquarium with his Oscars.
Jesse from California
calls and says he wants to talk about feeding his small
Fahaka Puffer Fish.
Dennis from Spokane
calls and says he's got a ponytail, but before he can say
much the show ends.
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