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A giant among minnows: Giant danio can keep growing

...hancing the growth of farmed fish such as Atlantic salmon and decrease the time to get to market size. “The more we understand about growth, the more likely we can come up with acceptable ways to enhance it,?she said. ...

Fatty fish protects against cancer

... Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows that eating salmon or other kinds of fatty fish a few times a month would be one good way to go about it. At the end of the 1980s, 90,000 Swedish women were sent a questionnaire on their dietary habits in connection with their mammography scan. Now, with the help of a...

Special chip provides better picture of salmon health

...using DNA chips. By studying the genes of Atlantic salmon scientists from three UK universities are developi...rmance of salmon, a tool which could both save the salmon industry thousands and also help conserve dwindling wild salmon populations. Atlantic salmon are t...

Salmon farms kill wild fish, study shows

...ild salmon. Up to 95 per cent of the wild juvenile salmon that migrate past fish farms die as a result of se...les are migrating out to sea. Fish farms put adult salmon in net pens along the migration routes. The result is a cloud of sea lice through which the juvenile...

Study finds mercury prevalent in many western fish

...s we sampled were insect-eaters. Older, very large salmon may respond more like piscivores, but we didn't sample salmonids of that size." In looking at mercury levels in fish across the West, the most important factors "were where the fish were in the food web, and their ages," Herlihy said. "The older a ...

Baby fish 'smell their way home'

...l the unique trace of their home reef ?rather like salmon can smell the home river. "We know these late stage fish larvae, generally between about 9 and 14mm long, already have developed noses ?but the question was whether they could use them to recognise what the home reef smelt like, when they left it ...

Farmed salmon could become an invasive species in forest streams

...ince the Norwegians expanded commercial farming of salmon in the 1960s, the industry has continued to rapidl...s expanded to such a degree that prices for farmed salmon have plummeted and, there is concern that farmed fish may become the next invasive species. "Farme...

New report: Explosive growth changes salmon industry

...entifies two important trends that have remade the salmon industry in the last 25 years: farmed salmon has grown from just two percent of the world supply in 1980 to 65 percent in 2004. About three-four...

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