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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.
In the
Pacific
Ocean
Bikini
Corals
Recover From
Atomic
Blast.
Half a
century
after the
last
earth-shattering
atomic blast
shook the
Pacific
atoll of
Bikini, the
corals are
flourishing
again. Some
coral
species,
however,
appear to be
locally
extinct. Click
here to read more.
In London,
England,
Rare
Seahorses
Found in
River
Thames.
There's
something
fishy in
London, and
it's not the
city's
trademark
fish and
chips.
Short-Snouted
seahorses
have set up
residence in
the
recovering
River
Thames,
conservationists
announced
today.
The
fish—pictured
above in the
London Zoo
aquarium—were
found in
recent
surveys that
assessed the
health of
the once
heavily
polluted
river. The
discovery of
the animal
in brackish
tidal waters
as far
upriver as
London
was kept
under wraps
by the
Zoological
Society of
London (ZSL)
until the
species had
been granted
protected
status.
Little data
are known
about the
seahorses'
populations. Click
here to read more.
Adelaide
Hills,
Australia,
Drought
Refuge
Sought for
Endangered
Fish.
A native
fish feared
to be near
extinction
will be put
into
temporary
refuges in
South
Australia to
help ensure
its
survival.
The southern
purple-spotted
gudgeon has
lost its
natural
habitat
because of
ongoing
drought.
Suzanne
Keith from
Waterfind
Environment
Fund hopes
the fish
will be able
to breed in
the refuges
for release
into the
wild when
the usual
water flows
return. She
says sites
in the
Adelaide
Hills are
under
consideration.
"They're
mostly
related to
the River
Murray
watershed
where they
naturally
came from,"
she
said. "We're
looking at
things like
the water
quality, the
vegetation
around the
particular
dam, absence
of predators
and
competitors
that could
damage the
fish. Click
here to read more.
Port
Lincoln,
South
Australia,
Deep-Sea
Sharks Wired
For Sound.
Deep-sea
sharks have
been tagged
and tracked
and their
habitats
precisely
mapped in
world-first
research to
test the
conservation
value of
areas closed
to
commercial
fishing.
Scientists
from the
CSIRO Wealth
from Oceans
National
Research
Flagship
recently
fitted
acoustic
tags to 50
gulper
sharks,
swellsharks
and green
eye dogfish
near Port
Lincoln,
South
Australia.
They will
track the
shark’s
movements in
a closed
area
designed to
protect the
gulper shark
– a species
which is
severely
depleted
over much of
its range
and is
nominated
for
protection
under the
Environment
Protection
and
Biodiversity
Conservation
Act 1999.
“Half of the
fish
harvested in
Australia’s
south-east
fishery come
from a thin
belt of
water along
the
south-eastern
continental
shelf at
depths of
200-700
metres,”
says CSIRO
Wealth from
Oceans
Flagship
scientist,
Dr Alan
Williams.
“This rich
belt yields
prime table
fish such as
blue eye
trevalla and
pink ling,
but is also
home to
several
shark
species
vulnerable
to
over-fishing. Click
here to read more.
Along the
Coast of
California
State
Regulators
Ban Salmon
Fishing.
State
wildlife
regulators
voted to ban
recreational
salmon
fishing off
the
California
coast this
year to
protect
declining
chinook
stocks in
the Central
Valley.
Tuesday's
unanimous
vote by the
Fish and
Game
Commission
follows last
week's
decision by
federal
regulators
to close the
California
coast and
most of
Oregon to
commercial
and sport
salmon
fishing.
California
regulators
decided to
ban salmon
fishing in
state waters
extending
three miles
from shore
after
surveys
found a
near-record
low number
of chinook
salmon
returning to
spawn in the
Sacramento
River and
its
tributaries
last fall.
The Fish and
Game
Commission
has
scheduled a
May 9
meeting to
consider
whether to
allow sport
salmon
fishing in
California
rivers this
year. Click
here to read more.
From the
Czech
Republic in
Europe
Czechs
Among
World's
Biggest Pet
Fish
Exporters.
The Czech
Republic
ranks among
the world's
three
largest
aquarium
fish
exporters,
as Czech
breeders
estimate
their
exports of
aquarium
fish at
Kc2-4bn
annually,
though the
official
data from
the Czech
Statistical
Office (CSU)
put the
figure at
Kc400m.
Aquarium
fish exports
are several
times higher
than the
traditional
exports of
carp, which
has been
bred in the
Czech lands
for hundreds
of years,
according to
experts.
According to
CSU, the
Czech
Republic
last year
exported 240
tonnes of
aquarium
fish worth
Kc406.4m,
which was
only Kc9m
fewer that
live carp
exports. In
the previous
years,
aquarium
fish exports
was,
however,
several
dozen
million of
crowns
higher than
carp
exports, the
CSU data
show. Czech
aquarium
fish is
exported
mainly to
Germany,
France, and
Italy. Click
here to
learn more.
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