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Farmed fish may pose risk for mad cow disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

University of Louisville neurologist Robert P. Friedland, M.D., questions the safety of eating farmed fish in the June issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, adding a new worry to concerns about the nation's food s ...





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A new chemical method for distinguishing between farmed and wild salmon

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Wild salmon and farmed salmon can now be distinguished from each other by a technique that examines the chemistry of their scales.


Farmed salmon could become an invasive species in forest streams

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created Mar 08, 2007 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Ever since the Norwegians expanded commercial farming of salmon in the 1960s, the industry has continued to rapidly grow worldwide. It has expanded to such a degree that prices for farmed salmon have plummeted and, there ...


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Dramatic declines in wild salmon populations are associated with exposure to farmed salmon

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created Feb 12, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Since the late 1970s, salmon aquaculture has grown into a global industry, producing over 1 million tons of salmon per year. However, this solution to globally declining fish stocks has come under increasing ...


British company offers organic cod

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created Apr 15, 2006 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A British company plans to begin supplying farmed organic cod to major supermarket chains next month.


Insight into fish disease to help protect farmed fish stocks

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have gained a key insight into a disease that is devastating the UK's fish farming industry. The researchers have discovered that fish ...


Ocean Fish Farming Harms Wild Fish, Study Says

Ocean Fish Farming Harms Wild Fish, Study Says

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created Dec 15, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Farming of fish in ocean cages is fundamentally harmful to wild fish, according to an essay in this week's Conservation Biology.


Judge says farmed fish can't be counted

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created Jun 15, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A federal judge in Spokane, Wash., has ruled that only wild fish can be counted in determining which species are endangered.


Underwater noise harming fish

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created Aug 26, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Man-made underwater noise threatens the health and reproductive capacity of many fish and marine mammals, an Italian researcher says.


Worried about mercury? It's easy to choose safer fish

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

We've been told seafood is good for us because it's low in calories and fat, full of protein and packed with Omega-3s, which may protect against coronary heart disease and stroke, and are thought to help neurological development ...


Global study of salmon shows: 'Sustainable' food isn't so sustainable

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Popular thinking about how to improve food systems for the better often misses the point, according to the results of a three-year global study of salmon production systems. Rather than pushing for organic or land-based ...



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