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MIT tests self-propelled cage for fish farming

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 03, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A self-propelling underwater cage developed and recently tested by an MIT researcher could not only cut costs for offshore ocean-based fish farms but also aid the movement of such operations into the high ...


NOAA chief says new ocean uses creating conflicts (AP)

NOAA chief says new ocean uses creating conflicts

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- New pressures on the nation's oceans, from wind turbines to fish farms, are increasingly sparking conflicts with more traditional activities such as shipping and recreational boating and show the ...


Risks involved with transgenic fish

Risks involved with transgenic fish

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fast growing transgenic fish can revolutionise commercial fish farming and relieve the pressure on overexploited fish stocks. But what happens in the natural environment if transgenic fish escape?





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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.


Declining water quality threatens freshwater fish species with extinction

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Increasing urbanisation and more intensive farming are killing New Zealand's freshwater fish species by degrading water quality, says the author of a report published this week by the Ministry for the Environment.


The secretive immune system of the salmon

The secretive immune system of the salmon

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created Jan 27, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

During his doctoral thesis, Erlend Haugarvoll discovered new aspects of the salmon immune system. His research looked at the immune cells in the gills of salmon and at immune responses to vaccination. A special ...


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 ...


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.


'Long-haired' water moulds are the most virulent

'Long-haired' water moulds are the most virulent

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The water mould Saprolegnia can cause skin disease in salmon during its freshwater phase. The mould attacks both fish and eggs and has at times caused great economic loss for the fish farming industry, both in ...


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 ...


VHS virus infects fish via their gills

VHS virus infects fish via their gills

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia (VHS) is a highly contagious disease of rainbow trout in fresh water, causing great economic loss in the European trout farming industry. In his doctorate, Bjørn Erik ...


No Asian carp found yet in Ill. fish kill (AP)

No Asian carp found yet in Ill. fish kill

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- No Asian carp have been spotted so far in a Chicago canal during a massive fish kill aimed at trying to keep the giant fish out of the Great Lakes.


When fish farms are built along the coast, where does the waste go?

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2

If you are a fish eater, it's likely that the salmon you had for dinner was not caught in the wild, but was instead grown in a mesh cage submerged in the open water of oceans or bays. Fish farming, a relatively inexpensive ...



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