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Largemouth bass vulnerability to being caught by anglers a heritable trait

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In an experiment spanning over 20 years, researchers at the University of Illinois have found that vulnerability to being caught by anglers is a heritable trait in largemouth bass.





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Norway may halt salmon fishing season

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 18, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Norwegian wildlife management officials said stocks of wild salmon have dropped so low they may have to halt the salmon fishing season.


Helping Albacore tuna come out of the can

Helping Albacore tuna come out of the can

Biology / Ecology

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are set to study the earbones and organs of more than 2000 albacore tuna to better understand the growth, age and breeding patterns of this increasingly important species.


Feds vote to halt Calif. chinook salmon fishing (AP)

Feds vote to halt Calif. chinook salmon fishing

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- California's commercial chinook salmon fishing season will be called off again after a record low number of fish returned to spawn last year, federal fisheries managers announced Wednesday.


Norway's Puffin chicks lack food

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created Jul 17, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Very few puffin chicks born this year on the Norwegian island of Rost are expected to survive due to shortages of the birds' food source.


Calm before the spawn: Climate change and coral spawning

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (4) | comments 2

What's the point of setting up marine reserves to protect coral reefs from pollution, ship groundings and overfishing if climate change could cause far more damage? A study published this week in London in Proceedings of ...


Forrester projects rise in online holiday sales

Technology / Business

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Forrester Research Inc. is projecting an 8 percent increase to $44.7 billion in online holiday sales compared with a year ago as bargain hunters turn to the Web for deals.


Scent signals stop incest in lemurs

Biology / Evolution

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Chemical identifiers secreted from the genital glands of lemurs, allow them to avoid incest and also to engage in nepotism. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology have identified the smells ...


Prevent tomato late blight next growing season

Biology / Other

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Across the northeast, home gardeners expecting the usual bumper crop of tomatoes this season were dismayed to find their plants affected by late blight, the same fungus that caused Ireland's potato famine ...


Mathematics Professor Says Yankees, Dodgers Should Make World Series

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

With the League Championship Series set to begin tomorrow, NJIT Mathematics Professor Bruce Bukiet has, once again, analyzed the probability of each team winning their post-season series. Bukiet updates his calculations ...


Lessons learned from H1N1 virus pandemic

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A comprehensive study has revealed, for the first time, the impact of swine flu on the health of the general public in Australia and New Zealand.



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