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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.
Click here, if you can't see the video of the Electric Eel to the left.
From the Journal
of Fish Biology,
Scientists
Push for Electric
Eel Genome Research.
Sequencing the
complete
genome of an
Electric
Eel, like
the one
shown above, would
be a boon to
research on
everything from
energy production
and storage
to tissue regeneration,
according to
some scientists.
Six American
researchers
wrote a review,
published this
month in the
Journal of Fish
Biology, calling
for dense, seven-
to 11-fold shotgun
sequencing of
the electric
eel genome —
a move they
said would provide
information
about more than
95 percent of
the fish’s genome
as well as its
genetic scaffold.
Click
here to
read more.
In Cote
d’Azur,
France,
A Home
for the Fish
that Wants
to Live in
Style !!
Available
from Octopus
Studios,
which is a
design
company that
explores
pure
creativity
with the
production
of
handcrafted
showpiece
products. Click
here
for more
information.
From the
University
of Plymouth
in England,
UK,
The
Foraging
Behavior of
Hungry
Sharks
Sharks and
other marine
animals find
food using a
similar
search
pattern to
the way
people may
shop,
according to
one of the
largest
analyses of
foraging
behaviour
attempted so
far – and
the first
such
analysis of
marine
predators.
The results
of the
international
study shows
that the
animals’
behaviour
seems to
have evolved
as a general
‘rule’ to
search for
sparsely
distributed
prey in the
vast expanse
of the
ocean. This
rule
involves a
special
pattern of
random
movement
known as a
Levy Walk,
where the
predators
use a series
of small
motions
interspersed
with large
jumps to new
foraging
locations.
This
increases
the chance
of finding
food,
however
widely
scattered it
might be. Click
here to read more.
In America
Native
Fish for the
Home
Aquarium
It's been
estimated
that as many
as 26
million
Americans
keep
aquarium
fish. If
that figure
is accurate,
the hobby is
the second
most popular
in the
U.S.-right
behind
photography.
And, as a
glance at
the yellow
pages will
show you,
the term
aquarium
hobby is
virtually
interchangeable
with
tropical
fish hobby.
Why the
almost total
emphasis on
exotic fish?
Well, it's
certainly
not because
of any
shortage of
native ones.
Over 700
species of
freshwater
fish are
found in the
U.S., and as
you'd
imagine-more
than a few
of them are
suitable for
the home
tank. In
fact, as a
group, they
possess
several
advantages
over
tropical
fish. The
best single
source of
information
and
encouragement
for anyone
interested
in keeping
native fish
in the home
aquarium is
the North
American
Native
Fishes
Association
(NANFA). A
major tenet
of NANFA is
that without
popular
appreciation
of our
native fish,
there is
unlikely to
be effective
conservation
of the fish
and their
habitats. To
join NANFA,
send $7.50
(U.S.,
Canada, and
Mexico) or
$12.50
(other
countries)
to Robert
Syracuse,
Treasurer,
101 Country
Club Dr.,
New Orleans,
LA 70124.
For further
information,
write R.
Bruce
Gebhardt,
President,
123 W. Mt.
Airy Ave.,
Philadelphia,
PA 19119. Click
here to read more.
From
National
Geographic
Magazine,
Weird New
Fish
Discovered
in
Antarctica.
This
otherworldly
creature was
among a haul
of strange
new fish
trawled from
the bottom
of the
oceans of
Antarctica.
The eelpout,
Pachycara
cousinsi, is
one of six
previously
unknown
deep-sea
fishes
caught at
depths of
2.8 miles
(4.5
kilometers)
during a
British
research
expedition
to the
remote
Crozet
Islands in
the Indian
Ocean
between
Antarctica
and Africa.
Team member
Nicola King
of the
University
of Aberdeen,
Scotland,
recently
announced
the new
species. P.
cousinsi is
known from
just a
single, 1.35
foot (41
centimeter)
long
specimen
caught
during the
2005 to 2006
voyage. King
named the
fleshy-lipped
species in
honor of her
fiancé,
geophysicist
Michael
Cousins.
“Beauty is
in the eye
of the
beholder,”
the marine
biologist
said. Click
here to read more.
In
Antarctica
Scientists
find
Hibernating
Fish.
Scientists
have found
an Antarctic
fish that
hibernates
to conserve
energy
during the
long
southern
winters. The
cod
Notothenia
coriiceps
enters a
dormant
state,
similar to
hibernation
in land
animals like
hedgehogs,
British
scientists
said on
Wednesday.
Researchers
already knew
Antarctic
fish had
antifreeze
chemicals in
their blood
and their
ability to
effectively
put
themselves
"on ice" is
another
remarkable
adaptation
to an
extreme
environment.
"It appears
they utilize
the short
Antarctic
summers to
gain
sufficient
energy from
feeding to
tide them
over in
winter. The
hibernation-like
state they
enter in
winter is
presumably a
mechanism
for reducing
their energy
requirements
to the bare
minimum,"
said Keiron
Fraser of
the British
Antarctic
Survey. Click
here to read more.
Pictures from Heather
I thought you might like these pictures of
the jellyfish from the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Heather
Callers during this Show
Heather from Point Loma
in San Diego, California,
calls and talks about her trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Dennis from Spokane talks
about his 80-gallon aquarium with Goldfish, then he talks
about his other 80-gallon aquarium with Mollies that tests
with 2.5 ppm of ammonia.
Evan from Colorado says
he just bought a 3" Coral Beauty Angelfish for his 75-gallon
saltwater aquarium.
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