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Researchers studying spiny dogfish, Gulf of Maine's mini shark
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Feb 24, 2009 |
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For such a small shark species, there seems to be super-sized confusion about its population status. But for researchers at the University of New Hampshire, one thing is clear - definite changes have occurred ...
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Team makes breakthrough demonstration of pH-regulating protein
Dec 22, 2009 |
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Researchers have identified the protein mechanism that senses bicarbonate fluctuations and adjusts blood pH levels.
Warming drives off Cape Cod's namesake, other fish
Nov 12, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Fishermen have known for years that they've had to steam farther and farther from shore to find the cod, haddock and winter flounder that typically fill dinner plates in New England.
North Atlantic fish populations shifting as ocean temperatures warm
Nov 02, 2009 |
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About half of 36 fish stocks in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, many of them commercially valuable species, have been shifting northward over the last four decades, with some stocks nearly disappearing from U.S. waters as they ...
Third of open ocean sharks face extinction: study
Jun 25, 2009 |
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A third of the world's open water sharks -- including the great white and hammerhead -- face extinction, according to a major conservation survey released Thursday.
Over 100 new sharks and rays classified
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Sep 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Australian scientists have completed an ambitious 18-month project to name and describe more than 100 new species of sharks and rays.
Can certain metals repel sharks from fishing gear?
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Apr 22, 2008 |
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Sharks in captivity avoid metals that react with seawater to produce an electric field, a behavior that may help fishery biologists develop a strategy to reduce the bycatch of sharks in longline gear. Shark bycatch is an ...
Deep-sea sharks wired for sound
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Apr 09, 2008 |
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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.
Research could lead to sharks predicting weather
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Mar 24, 2008 |
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Ground-breaking research which could lead to sharks being used to predict the weather has been carried out at Aberdeen’s National Hyperbaric Centre. Marine Biology student Lauren Smith is close to completing ...
Researchers offer new theory for dogfish and skate population outburst on George's Bank
Feb 27, 2008 |
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New research by scientists at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Chesapeake Biological Laboratory questions the long-held belief that a lack of predators and competitors was the primary cause for ...
Rare albino ratfish has eerie, silvery sheen
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Sep 24, 2007 |
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A ghostly, mutant ratfish caught off Whidbey Island in Washington state is the only completely albino fish ever seen by both the curator of the University of Washington's 7.2 million-specimen fish collection ...
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