| June 15, 2009 | -
California
scientists studying guppies found that evolution can take place in as little as eight years.
| Source:
Science Daily
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| April 24, 2009 | - A live shark was dumped on the doorstep of an Australian newspaper. “We arrived,” said Constable Jarrod Dwyer, “and poured some water on it just to see if it was still breathing and it kicked around for a little while.”
| Source:
Ananova
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| July 30, 2007 | -
Marine biologists discovered an octopus with elephant ears.
| Source:
CBC News via SympaticoMSN
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| July 24, 2007 | - Fast-growing supermassive black holes fed like piranhas on cosmic gases.
| Source:
Space.com via Yahoo! News
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| June 25, 2007 | -
Tuna shortages were forcing Japanese chefs to consider deer and horse meat as substitutes for sushi.
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Tuna shortages were forcing Japanese chefs to consider deer and horse meat as substitutes for sushi.
| Source:
NYT
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| June 8, 2007 | - In China, a spike in the price of pork tenderloin and bacon caused people to begin eating more fish.
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 23, 2007 | - It was revealed that in 2001 in Omaha, Nebraska, a virgin shark gave birth.
| Source:
CNN
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| May 18, 2007 | - Off the coast of Monterey, California, a new kind of sea anemone--small, white, and cube-shaped--was found inside a whale's corpse.
| Source:
LiveScience
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| May 18, 2007 | - Only 38 pupfish remained in Devil's Hole, Death Valley.
| Source:
AFP via Yahoo! News
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| May 16, 2007 | - Scientists in the Antarctic discovered hundreds of new worm and crustacean species, along with a new kind of gourd-shaped carnivorous sponge.
| Source:
Reuters via Scientific American
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| March 22, 2007 | - Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck announced that his restaurants would no longer serve foie gras, but that he would continue to slice lobsters in half without first stunning them.
| Source:
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| February 3, 2007 | -
Britain's top female paraglider was mauled by eagles. “Eagles,” said a colleague, “are the sharks of the air.”
| Source:
NZPA via stuff.co.nz
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| January 30, 2007 | - Terri Irwin, the widow of Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin, urged her late husband's fans to respect stingrays, which she described as “cute little pancakes in the ocean.”
| Source:
contactmusic.com
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| December 7, 2006 | - A fish festival in Nigeria banned fish.
| Source:
BBC News
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| December 4, 2006 | -
Scientists discovered that the prehistoric Dunkleosteus terrelli, the “Darth Vader of fish,” had the strongest fish bite ever and could snack on sharks.
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
Washington Post
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| November 21, 2006 | -
Chinese
scientists revealed that showing pornography to pandas has helped increase the captive panda population; Vassar scientists said that they had successfully mated robot
fish.
| Source 1:
AP via Australian
Source 2:
Xinhua
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| November 2, 2006 | - Scientists claimed that at the current rate of consumption, global sea
food supplies will be obliterated by the year 2048.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| October 18, 2006 | - Furry crabs were found in Chesapeake Bay.
| Source:
Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo
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| September 25, 2006 | - A drain-clogging teddy bear was implicated in the deaths of 2,500 trout at a hatchery in New Hampshire.
| Source:
AP via Yahoo! News
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| September 13, 2006 | -
Australian officials suspected that ten stingrays found dead with their tails cut off had been killed to avenge television personality Steve Irwin.
| Source:
Irwin's death sparks bout of stingray mutilations
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| September 5, 2006 | -
English
scientists were conducting experiments to determine whether sea horses could be tempted into adultery.
| Source:
New York Post via Nerve.com
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| September 5, 2006 | -
Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, died after a stingray stabbed him in the heart.
| Source:
NEWS.co.au
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| August 14, 2006 | - Marine biologists discovered a huge hypoxic “dead zone” off the Oregon coast. “We can't be sure what happened to all the fish,” said a researcher, “but it's clear they are gone.”
| Source:
Science Daily
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| August 10, 2006 | - In Texas a truck carrying zoo animals overturned, immediately killing one penguin; three more penguins were killed by oncoming traffic. The octopus was not harmed.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| August 4, 2006 | - A 14-foot blue marlin stabbed angler Ian Card in the chest during a fishing rodeo off Bermuda.
| Source:
Daily Mail
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| August 2, 2006 | -
Basketball player Yao Ming announced he would no longer eat shark fin
soup because “endangered species are our friends.”
| Source:
NY Times
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| July 25, 2006 | -
fish fell from the sky in Manna, India.
| Source:
Mail&Guardian
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| July 19, 2006 | -
Scientists learned that Britain's river fish are undergoing sex changes.
| Source:
EITB24.com via Google News
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| June 15, 2006 | -
President Bush designated 140,000 square miles encompassing several Hawaiian islands as a national monument and marine sanctuary.
| Source:
BBC News
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| May 19, 2006 | - About 2,000 gallons of Sunny D concentrate leaked into a river in England, killing fish and turning the water bright yellow.
| Source:
Daily Mail
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| May 13, 2006 | - In Kenya pilgrims were traveling to Mombasa to see a miraculous tuna with a Koranic verse inscribed into its scales. "God," reads the tuna, "is the greatest of all providers."
| Source:
AFP via Yahoo! News
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| May 8, 2006 | - President Bush said that the best moment of his presidency was when he caught a seven-and-a-half-pound perch.
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 4, 2006 | - There was a marked increase in cases of fish
lice.
| Source:
Practical Fishkeeping
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| April 19, 2006 | -
Scientists reported that ichthyoallyeinotoxic fishes--such as mullet, goatfish, tangs, damsels, and rabbitfish--could produce LSD-like hallucinations in those who ate them.
| Source:
Practical Fishkeepingg
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| April 12, 2006 | -
Researchers in Africa discovered a catfish that stretches out of the water to eat land animals.
| Source:
Nature
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| April 9, 2006 | - Researchers in Connecticut said that global warming has led to a massive decline in the lobster population of the Long Island Sound; however, if the polar ice caps melt and sea levels rise 30 feet, colder water might bring the lobsters back.
| Source 1:
The Stamford Advocate
Source 2:
CTV.ca
Source 3:
Chicago Sun-Times
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| April 4, 2006 | -
Scientists in Brazil discovered a new species of tube-snouted ghost knifefish.
| Source:
Practical fishkeeping
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| March 8, 2006 | - A new species of blind, furry, lobster-like crustaceans was discovered in the South Pacific.
| Source:
CNN.com
|
| February 16, 2006 | - A British nurse was in trouble for slapping her co-workers with a frozen
trout.
| Source:
BBC News
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| February 13, 2006 | - Beaches closed in Australia when sharks went into a feeding frenzy.
| Source:
The Courier Mail
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| January 28, 2006 | -
Hawaiians were attempting to have the humuhumunukunukuapuaa (HOO-moo-HOO-moo- NOO-koo-NOO-koo- AH-poo-AH-ah) appointed as Hawaii's state fish on a permanent basis after its five-year term expired. "It kind of looks like a pig and it squawks and everything," said a humuhumunukunukuapuaa advocate.
| Source:
ABC News
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| January 8, 2006 | - An Australian woman died after three sharks attacked her.
| Source:
BBC News
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| November 11, 2005 | -
Swedish authorities removed the Storsjo monster, a mythical serpentine creature that lives in Lake Storsjon in Jamtland, from their endangered-species list; hunters may now pursue the animal.
| Source:
AP
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| October 27, 2005 | - Scientists discovered that at least one species of fish, the north Pacific salmon shark, has very warm blood.
| Source:
National Science Foundation
|
| September 28, 2005 | -
Japanese scientists photographed a giant squid and managed to tear off one of its tentacles.
| Source:
MSNBC
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| September 24, 2005 | - An Australian surfer avoided a shark attack by punching the shark.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| August 5, 2005 | - A British man was in trouble for attacking his wife with a pike. He later fed the pike to his cats and dogs.
| Source:
Mirror.co.uk
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| August 2, 2005 | - An Australian woman sued the Sydney Aquarium for allowing a shark tank to shatter and shower her in sharks.
| Source:
BBC News
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| July 25, 2005 | - An Australian
eel nicknamed Eddie was seen swallowing a goose.
| Source:
Practical Fishkeeping
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| July 19, 2005 | - Another octopus learned to open lids.
| Source:
NBC30.com
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| June 30, 2005 | - It was discovered that killer jellyfish will swim away from the color red.
| Source:
News.com.au
|
| June 26, 2005 | - A shark killed a fourteen-year-old girl in Florida.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| June 23, 2005 | - A very large clam was discovered in Maine.
| Source:
The Ridgway Record
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| June 8, 2005 | -
Scientists studying the Devils Hole pupfish, of which only 180 remain, accidentally killed eighty of them.
| Source:
Live Science
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| March 24, 2005 | - Scientists found that some species of octopus can walk on two arms.
| Source:
EurekAlert!
|
| March 18, 2005 | -
Satan's face appeared on a turtle's shell in Indiana.
| Source:
Boston.com
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| March 8, 2005 | - Bubba, the 22-pound lobster caught off the Nantucket shore, died, most likely from stress.
| Source:
Toronto Star
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| March 3, 2005 | - A 13-pound, 13-ounce baby boy was born in Britain; the boy's mother credited the boy's size to her steady diet of cockles, herring, mussels, and crab claws, provided by her fishmonger husband.
| Source:
News & Star
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| March 2, 2005 | - A 22-pound, century-old lobster was caught off Nantucket.
| Source:
CNN
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| February 23, 2005 | - A nine-foot-long eel with a head as big as a soccer ball was swimming loose in Australia.
| Source:
ABC News Online
|
| December 28, 2004 | -
Missouri legalized bare-handed catfishing.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| December 21, 2004 | - Male fish in the Potomac river were producing eggs.
| Source:
AP
|
| November 23, 2004 | - An elderly South African woman was eaten by a shark.
| Source:
CNN
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| November 15, 2004 | - It was also observed that global warming is good for squid.
| Source:
ABC News
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| November 9, 2004 | - Scientists discovered three new species of sea squirt.
| Source:
CNN
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| October 1, 2004 | -
Chinese researchers unveiled a microscopic swimming robot.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| September 28, 2004 | - Researchers were trying to make buckyballs, the carbon nanoparticles that kill water fleas and damage fish brains, safer.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| September 11, 2004 | - Scientists created a genetically modified fish that produces a human blood-clotting factor.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| August 25, 2004 | - The head of the EPA said that fish in almost all lakes and rivers and streams in the United States are contaminated with mercury, for which there is no safe exposure level.
| Source:
New York Times
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| July 24, 2004 | - An Italian city banned the practice of keeping goldfish in bowls.
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
|
| July 14, 2004 | - Graduate students at the University of North Carolina discovered that 75 percent of the fish sold as red snapper was some other kind of fish.
| Source:
University of North Carolina
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| May 13, 2004 | - The World Wildlife Fund said that world cod stocks could be wiped out by 2020.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 14, 2004 | - Three crewmen died on a South Korean freighter after inhaling rotten squid gas.
| Source:
Mainichi Shimbun
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| March 27, 2004 | - A new study found that buckyballs can cause brain damage in fish.
| Source:
American Chemical Society
|
| February 21, 2004 | - A red-bellied piranha was found dead in a boat moored on the Thames River in England.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| January 30, 2004 | - A dead sperm whale with an unusually large penis exploded on a street in Taiwan, showering nearby pedestrians, cars, and shops with gore.
| Source:
MSNBC
|
| January 28, 2004 | - A new study found that male dolphins, whales, and seals have been turning into hermaphrodites because of pollution.
| Source:
BBC
|
| January 8, 2004 | - American researchers found that farm-raised salmon have ten times the PCB, dioxin, and pesticide contamination of wild salmon. Using EPA risk estimates, the scientists suggested that people eat no more than 110 grams, or about half a normal portion, of Maine salmon a month; Scottish salmon, among the most contaminated in the study, which analyzed fish from all over the world, should be limited to 55 grams a month.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| December 28, 2003 | -
Piranha attacks were on the rise in Brazil.
| Source:
BBC
|
| December 20, 2003 | - It was reported that the omnibus spending bill passed by the House of Representatives this month includes $23 billion in "earmarks" such as $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa and $225,000 to repair a swimming pool in Sparks, Nevada. Jim Gibbons, a Republican representative, explained that the funding came about because he felt guilty for clogging up that pool with tadpoles when he was a boy. "Look," Gibbons said in defense of his earmark, "this is the standard practice the United States Congress has had for decades." Gibbons said he did not view such projects "as pork."
| Source:
New York Times
|
| December 15, 2003 | -
Keiko the killer whale died of pneumonia in a Norwegian fjord. Local officials said it was "downright sad."
| Source:
Aftenposten Nettutgaven
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| December 4, 2003 | -
California banned the sale of the genetically altered "GloFish," a zebra fish that glows in the dark.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| November 5, 2003 | - Marine biologists traced a strange submarine farting sound to bubbles that were observed coming from a herring's anus; it was the first discovery of a fish making a sound (which has been labeled a "fast repetitive tick," or FRT) with its anus.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| October 28, 2003 | - The CIA celebrated the 40th anniversary of its Directorate of Science and Technology by exhibiting such devices as a mechanical dragonfly listening device and a 24-inch-long artificial catfish; the exhibit was not open to the public.
| Source:
Reuters
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| October 16, 2003 | - Thousands of dead catfish washed up in Alabama.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| August 15, 2003 | - A Greek oil tanker sank off a popular Pakistani beach and dumped at least 12,000 metric tons of oil into the water. People were complaining of dead fish and "pungent smells" as the oil washed ashore.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| July 10, 2003 | - It was discovered that clown fish can change their sex as they move up in social status.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| July 7, 2003 | -
Fishermen in Italy were using live kittens to catch giant sheat fish in the Po River.
| Source:
Independent
|
| June 15, 2003 | - A genetically modified
fish that glows in the dark went on sale in Taiwan.
| Source:
Observer
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| June 9, 2003 | - Asthma patients descended on Hyderabad, India, in order to swallow live fish that were stuffed with an herbal paste.
| Source:
ABC.net.au
|
| May 14, 2003 | - A new study found that widespread industrial-fishing operations have succeeded in reducing by 90 percent the world's population of large tasty fish such as tuna, swordfish, blue marlin, and cod.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| April 30, 2003 | - Scientists discovered that fish can feel pain.
| |
| December 17, 2002 | -
Fish fell from the sky in northern Greece.
| |
| December 3, 2002 | -
Japan was suffering from a plague of giant jellyfish.
| |
| October 15, 2002 | -
In West Virginia, a pipe burst at a Bandmill Coal plant and dumped 100,000 gallons of coal slurry into streams, killing fish and contaminating the water supply.
| |
| September 17, 2002 | -
Archaeologists found a 100-million-year-old shellfish fossil with two penises. The ostracod was described as having “the longest and most ostentatious display of sex in the fossil record.”
| |
| September 10, 2002 | -
President Bush compared Saddam Hussein to a crawfish and said he was “stiffing the world.” Bush and Blair also mentioned a 1998 report by the International Atomic Energy Agency and said that Iraq could be six months away from developing nuclear weapons.
“I don't know what more evidence we need,” Bush said.
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| July 9, 2002 | -
A boy in Australia died after eating part of a poisonous toadfish.
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| July 9, 2002 | -
A fisherman in Germany caught a 6.6 pound piranha.
| |
| April 9, 2002 | -
Officials in Illinois warned residents not to eat fish caught anywhere in the state more than once a week because of methylmercury contamination.
| |
| March 12, 2002 | -
The United Nations told fishermen along the Caspian Sea that they could resume the sturgeon caviar harvest.
| |
| February 26, 2002 | -
Two drunk fisherman got into a fight in Florida; the first hit the second with a beer bottle; the second stabbed the first with the bill of a swordfish.
| |
| January 22, 2002 | -
Fishermen caught a giant squid off the coast of England.
| |
| November 20, 2001 | - Thousands of dead fish killed by industrial waste in a lake in Bangladesh were being collected and eaten by poor people.
| |
| October 16, 2001 | - Crowds of fishermen in Germany were trying to catch a giant catfish that ate a pet dachshund in a lake near Moenchengladbach.
| |
| September 25, 2001 | - Paleontologists in Pakistan discovered a missing link between the ancient hoofed ancestors of whales and their descendants, who fancied fish, learned to swim, and eventually just stayed in the water.
| |
| September 11, 2001 | - Thousands of small dead bait fish washed up on the beaches of Stone Harbor, New York.
| |
| September 4, 2001 | - Botulism was killing thousands of fish in Lake Erie.
| |
| July 3, 2001 | - Millions of anchovies were dying in Oregon.
| |
| June 26, 2001 | -
Farmers in Oregon were upset about suckerfish.
| |
| June 12, 2001 | -
Japan claimed that since whales eat so much fish, an increase in whaling would protect the world's fisheries.
| |
| May 29, 2001 | - The Committee of Names of Fishes of the American Fisheries Society for the second time in its history changed the name of a fish; henceforth the jewfish, Florida's largest species of grouper, will be known as the goliath grouper. Previously the society changed the name of the squawfish to pikeminnow.
| |
| May 15, 2001 | - Environmentalists and fishermen asked the Food and Drug Administration to impose a moratorium on genetically modified fish.
| |
| April 24, 2001 | - The United States
Commerce Department proposed extending endangered species protection to the smalltooth sawfish, whose population in American waters has dropped 99 percent.
| |
| April 24, 2001 | - Some experts were worried about tourists who pay to swim with sharks, which are lured by fish heads and such; others welcomed the chance to study
natural selection at work.
| |
| April 17, 2001 | -
Maryland failed to pass a moratorium on executions, but did ban the release of genetically modified fish.
| |
| January 16, 2001 | -
Scientists proudly announced the insertion of a jellyfish gene into a monkey; the gene was supposed to make a protein that glows in the dark, but it didn't, though a couple of stillborn monkeys from the same experiment did glow.
| |
| December 19, 2000 | -
European
scientists warned that the region's fish and other seafood were contaminated with dangerous levels of dioxins and other toxins.
| |
| October 17, 2000 | - The director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press announced that media pundits are less influential than researchers had thought: “There is increasing evidence the American public has an ability to ignore what the pundits say.” Two hundred million gallons of coal sludge escaped from the Martin County Coal Corporation's coal preparation plant in Inez, Kentucky; the blob of sludge was spreading through the area at a rate of ten miles a day, killing
fish and wildlife as it oozed through woods and streams.
| |
| October 10, 2000 | - Red tide rendered much of the Texas coast unfishable.
| |
| September 26, 2000 | - In the Caspian Sea, the world's last sturgeon population, a primary source of caviar, was being fished and poisoned into extinction.
| |
| September 5, 2000 | - A fisherman's head was found in the belly of a large codfish in Australia shortly after he was lost at sea.
| |
| September 5, 2000 | - Reverend Sun Myung Moon was arrested and fined $250 for catching too many salmon on a fishing trip.
| |
| September 0, 2000 | - Bathers along India's Great Kali River were being eaten by giant goonches.
| Source:
The Sun
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| August 22, 2000 | -
Canadian Micmac Indians blocked a highway with bonfires near Burnt Church, New Brunswick, in a dispute with the government over lobster fishing rights.
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