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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 ...





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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 ...


Study assesses impact of fish stocking on aquatic insects

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The impact fish stocking has on aquatic insects in mountain lakes can be rapidly reversed by removing non-native trout, according to a study completed by U.S. Forest Service and University of California, Davis, scientists.


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?


Lagoon size can be predicted

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The size of Santa Barbara area lagoons can be predicted, according to a new study by UC Santa Barbara scientists, who say that their research could help protect the endangered steelhead trout.


River flow and temperature limit trout numbers

River flow and temperature limit trout numbers

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Over a 23-year study, Javier Lobón-Cerviá has found the mechanism that controls the number of salmonids found each year in Cantabrian rivers. His method has been to monitor population numbers ...


Deadly Parasite Could Endanger Salmon and Trout Populations

Deadly Parasite Could Endanger Salmon and Trout Populations

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stocks of the UK’s Atlantic salmon along with varieties of domestic Brown trout could be under threat from a deadly parasite according to research led Bournemouth University (BU) published in the International Jou ...


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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 ...


Idaho F&G plan to kill pelicans hits obstacles

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Federal officials have told the Idaho fish and game officials that their plan to halve the number of pelicans nesting in southern and eastern Idaho by 2013 to boost fisheries is an "eradication program" that needs ...


Biologists save fish after landslide

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A gigantic landslide that buried a highway, uprooted homes and rerouted a river in Washington state's Cascade Range left hundreds of smaller victims: fish.


Research aims to cool runoff to protect coldwater streams

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ocean of stormwater that flows off of the sun-baked urban landscape is packing heat, and trout are starting to feel it.



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