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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
Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania,
New
Two
Piece
Magnetic
Aquarium
Pump
Chemical engineers developed a pump that splits into two pieces, a propeller for the
interior of the aquarium and a motor for the exterior, connected across the glass wall by strong magnets. The magnet is
made of neodymium, a strongly magnetic rare earth metal. The motor transmits torque through the magnet to the propeller
inside the tanks, circulating water inside the aquarium. Click
here
to read
more.
In San
Diego,
California,
Marine
Biology,
at a
Summer
Camp
SARAH JONES’S first real sense of what it might be like to be a marine biologist came during
summers at SeaCamp San Diego, a camp for middle-school and high-school students. It was there that her curiosity about
the field evolved into an academic and career choice. Ms. Jones, 25, is about to begin a Ph.D. program in biological
oceanography at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne. She wants to become a marine biology professor and to
conduct research into seahorse conservation and preservation. The type of camp that inspired Ms. Jones as a teenager is
gaining popularity, and is part of a larger trend toward environmental and science camps. About 50 camps, most of them
near the ocean, now specialize in marine biology studies, according to the American Camp Association. That is an
increase of about 25 percent since 1998. “Kids today want to tackle problems and be part of the solution,” said Peg
Smith, executive director of the American Camp Association. “They want to actually be exploring tide pools and working
in aquariums. They want to be experientially involved.”
Click
here
to read
more.
Okinawa,
Japan,
Baby
Manta
Born in
the
Churaumi
Aquarium.
The baby is doing fine, thank you, and mom and dad are elated over the birth of a healthy
manta ray. After a 366-day pregnancy, the mother manta ray gave birth Tuesday, only the second manta ray born in
captivity. The same manta gave birth in June 2007, but that baby died when only six days old. Churaumi Aquarium staff
say the first baby died after being chased into a wall by its father. Aquarium officials are taking no chances this go
around, immediately moving the baby into a separate holding pond. The baby is reported healthy, with a width measuring
1.8 meters. Manta rays generally grown to more than 6.7 meters. The father manta is the longest living resident of an
aquarium, going to the northern Okinawa aquarium after being caught in a fisherman’s net in 1992. The mother has been at
Churaumi Aquarium since being trapped in fixed shore nets of a Yomitan fisherman in 1998. A Churaumi Aquarium spokesman
says the staff is keeping a close eye on the baby, and promises “we’ll see how it works out. We hope to make the baby
available to the public soon.” Click here
to read
more.
Special thanks Jourdan for emailing us the link to this story.
In Des
Moines,
Iowa,
Big
Fish
Saved at
Saylorville
Lake.
Workers
have
rescued
about
100 huge
flathead
catfish
from a
shallow
pond at
Saylorville
Lake
north of
Des
Moines.
The fish
were
trapped
below
the
emergency
spillway
when
floodwater
receded.
Brandon
Bergquest
of the
Iowa
Department
of
Natural
Resources
helped
wrestle
the
catfish
to
deeper
water on
Sunday.
He said
the fish
were
going to
die from
lack of
oxygen,
and they
tried to
save as
many as
they
could.
U.S.
Army
Corps of
Engineers
officials
discovered
thousands
of fish
stuck in
the
shallow
pool
that was
cut off
from the
Des
Moines
River by
a
barrier
of rock
and
asphalt.
They
notified
the
natural
resources
agency.
The
catfish,
some
which
tipped
the
scales
at 60
pounds,
are
valuable
as
breeding
stock. Click
here
to read
more.
Special
thanks
to
Robert
in New
Jersey
for
emailing
us the
link to
this
story.
Way more
Fish in
the News
From
Robert
in New
Jersey.
Hi Tom
and
Nevin,
way to
many
this
week but
very
interesting.
I don’t
envy you
Tom
picking
stories
this
week.
Robert
in NJ
Exploited
Fish
Make
Rapid
Comeback
In
World's
Largest
No-take
Marine
Reserve
Network
EPA
awards
Alaska,
Idaho,
Oregon
and
Washington
nearly
$189,000
for
Environmental
Education(
Trout in
the
class
room)
(This is
a flow
up of a
story
you did
last
year I
think
may be
longer)
John from Hughesville, Pennsylvania,
calls and asks about buying a new small aquarium.
Robert in New Jersey
calls and talks about aquarium filters, including sponge
filters and his Emperor 400 filter.
Richard from Santa Ana talks
about his female Johanni Mbuna that's holding eggs in her
mouth and about the special container that he built to
protect her and her babies, while she incubates them.
Jourdan from Connecticut
calls and asks about compatible fish to keep with a pair of
Ram Cichlids in a 10-gallon aquarium.
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