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"Study finds bottom trawling nets 3,000 marine fish species, including threatened ones"
#Fish #Boats #Environment

Study finds bottom trawling nets 3,000 marine fish species, including threatened ones
How many marine fish species do bottom trawls catch? Researchers now have a list, and it’s long, running to some 3,000 species, according to a recent study. Bottom trawling is a commercially popular, and controversial, fishing method in which boats drag weighted nets along the seafloor. Usually they target commercially valuable marine life at the […]

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Study finds bottom trawling nets 3,000 marine fish species, including threatened ones https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/04/study-finds-bottom-trawling-nets-3000-marine-fish-species-including-threatened-…

Study finds bottom trawling nets 3,000 marine fish species, including threatened ones
How many marine fish species do bottom trawls catch? Researchers now have a list, and it’s long, running to some 3,000 species, according to a recent study. Bottom trawling is a commercially popular, and controversial, fishing method in which boats drag weighted nets along the seafloor. Usually they target commercially valuable marine life at the […]

Nooit verwacht dat een huismerk 'salt& vinegar' als smaak zou toevoegen aan t assortiment. 😅😅
Gaat de Febo nou ook fish&chips doen?? 🤔

Thieves stole paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse from a museum in Italy a week ago, police have said.
Four masked men entered the villa of the Magnani Rocca Foundation, near Parma in northern Italy,
and made off with the artworks on the night of 22 March, a police spokesperson said.
They stole Fish by Pierre-Auguste Renoir,
Still Life with Cherries by Paul Cézanne
and Odalisque on the Terrace by Henri Matisse.
The stolen paintings had an estimated tota…

Scottish Salmon Farms Report 35 Million Unexpected Fish Deaths In 3 Years #AnimalRights

Scottish Salmon Farms Report 35 Million Unexpected Fish Deaths In 3 Years
According to Animal Equality, Scottish salmon farms recorded 35 million unexpected fish deaths in three years, but only had two inspections

The world's great fish migrations are collapsing. That's a problem for millions of people
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-world-great-fish-migrations-collapsing.html

A nicely crafted article worth reading in Vox that explains the conflict within management agencies related to the widespread practice of stocking non-native fishes. Spoiler: it's about money.
https://www.vox.com/climate/483175/fish-stocking-trout-wildlife-agencie…

Fish sticks, this wine, and Edison The Man
#EngineeringWeek #FridayDinner #DinnerAndAMovie

Heute ist: End of Fish Day 2026 🐟❌
Deutschland hat die eigenen Fischprodukte für dieses Jahr bereits am 18. März 2026 aufgebraucht. Wenn wir nicht Fisch aus aller Welt importieren würden, wären unsere Supermarktregale ab heute leer.
Der „End of Fish Day“ erinnert uns daran, dass die Lebewesen im Meer nicht unendlich verfügbar sind und wir sorgsamer und bewusster mit ihnen umgehen müssen.
Meldung des BUND Bundesverband dazu:
👀

End of Fish Day 2026: Deutschlands Fischreserven sind aufgebraucht
Deutschland hat die eigenen Fischprodukte für dieses Jahr bereits am 18. März 2026 aufgebraucht. Wenn wir nicht Fisch aus aller Welt importieren würden, wären unsere Supermarktregale ab heute leer. Der „End of Fish Day“ erinnert uns daran, dass die Lebewesen im Meer nicht unendlich verfügbar sind...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Rosa Brunello:
🎵 Fish Without A Bycycle
#RosaBrunello

Come here fishy!!
I have good intentions. :neocat_evil_3c:

"A fish a day: More than 300 freshwater species described in 2025"
#Fish #Animals
htt…

A fish a day: More than 300 freshwater species described in 2025
More than 300 freshwater fish species were described in 2025. The fish come from around the world and a variety of ecosystems.

I've eaten at a lot of fish and chips places in England and Wales, and around the US. In the UK I like plaice, a kind of fish we don't get here on the west coast of the US.
For some reason, I believe that fish and chips are best consumed outside when the weather is nice, even a bit warm.
My favorite two fish and chips places are:
Scrumptious Fish and Chips - A food truck here in the Santa Cruz area. Their rockfish is especially good.
And the Sea Pal Cove in …

Fish and Chips | Scrumptious Fish & Chips | United States
Scrumptious Fish & Chips is a mobile food trailer that serves authentic British style scatch-made fish & chips in the Santa Cruz CA community.

I didn’t have any plans when I got up. However, I’ve been to the corner store for bread, and to Costco for meat and fish, and now to the local pub for a couple of pints and some buffalo wings.

Exploring the Chinese garden at the RUB botanical garden. Always a fun stop when I'm here

Hidden 'Beneath the Surface,' Freshwater Fish Migrations Collapsing Worldwide | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/fish-migrations-collapsing

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/country-joe-mcdonald-fish-singer-dead-obituary-1235527043/

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Kelis:
🎵 Friday Fish Fry
#NowPlaying #Kelis
https://kelisfood.bandcamp.com/album/friday-fish-fry

"Fish biology inspires laundry microplastics clean up"
#Microplastics #Laundry
https://www.

Fish biology inspires laundry microplastics clean up
Inspired by marine life, inventors have created a filter to trap pesky microplastics leaked during laundry

Hidden antibiotics in river fish spark new food safety fears #AnimalRights

Hidden antibiotics in river fish spark new food safety fears
Antibiotics are accumulating in a major Brazilian river, especially during the dry season when pollution becomes more concentrated. Scientists even detected a banned drug inside fish sold for food, raising concerns about human exposure. A common aquatic plant showed promise in removing these chemicals from water—but it also altered how fish absorb them, creating unexpected risks.

The serving suggestion for this herring salad is to replace it with a cartoon fish.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
The Marvelettes:
🎵 Too Many Fish In The Sea
#TheMarvelettes
https://djcashmoneystreetorchestra.bandcamp.com/track/too-many-fish-in-the-sea
https://open.spotify.com/track/4T7KB2dRMyQ6G7Ws1LEirm

> Curiously, if you read the New York Times story about this decision, the fact that it’s a top Trump donor, Ellison, who would benefit from this EO, simply isn’t mentioned. They didn’t think that was relevant.
"A fish has no concept of water"

Trump Issues Meaningless Executive Order To Try And Protect Larry Ellison’s CBS (And The Army Navy Game) From Competition
FCC boss Brendan Carr spends an awful lot of time pretending to be a tough guy, threatening any broadcasters that aren’t suitably deferential to our mad, idiot king. Carr’s had giant te…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
DoNormaal:
🎵 Gold Rooster
#DoNormaal
https://donormaal.bandcamp.com/track/gold-rooster-prod-fish-narc
https://open.spotify.com/track/4in0JG27vUBVJOubXXEMRf

cub - Go Fish - (1993)
Twee pop and cuddlecore are two of my favorite genres to come out of my generation.
Punk sensibilities, but for silliness not cynicism. Jangly guitar-driven indie pop.

#music #IndiePop

Freud: spends hours and hours dissecting phallic fish, looking for actual phalluses but failing to find them.
Later, Freud: everything is subconsciously phallic imagery! I ^H^HPeople constantly imagine phalluses even when they're not aware that's what they're doing!

Ah yes, the lovely smells of spring in the USA. Fitting, perhaps. Beautiful in its way https://www.popsci.com/environment/why-bradford-pear-trees-smell

Why spring smells like semen and rotting fish
They invasive, break easily, and smell terrible.

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 78 nodes and 181 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

"MSC’s ‘blue tick’ scheme creates illusion of ethically sourced fish, study claims"
#Fish #Animals #Oceans

Highlighting what can happen when a focus on a single impact rather than a more comprehensive assessment. Not a trivial problem to solve, but something to be aware of.
Though the solution is likely beyond the abilities of most organizations to address, I wonder if a collaboration of organizations - representing different interests (Labor, environment, social justice, etc) - could generate report cards that offer a more comprehensive assessment. Again, a challenge to implement, with…

Highlighting what can happen when a focus on a single impact rather than a more comprehensive assessment. Not a trivial problem to solve, but something to be aware of.
Though the solution is likely beyond the abilities of most organizations to address, I wonder if a collaboration of organizations - representing different interests (Labor, environment, social justice, etc) - could generate report cards that offer a more comprehensive assessment. Again, a challenge to implement, with…

Collectively owning property is difficult because the law is not set up for that, but a church provides a clear legal framework to do so. Prisoners can be cut off from political literature, but the first amendment protects religious literature (which is why Nazis started a church to get Nazi shit inside of prisons... but that's a whole other story). While these legal protections are definitely not guaranteed (we all know how many fucks the state gives about the law), it is both easy to hide in the noise (there are a *lot* of churches) and to hide in other ways. After all, the ichthys (Jesus fish) was an appropriated pagan symbol.
And there is also still value in peeling off other religious groups by showing them that they are also in danger. "When your enemy is strong, divide them," after all.

@… two fish are in a septic tank: one looks at the other and says: “how do you drive this thing?”

Everyone's favourite procrastination activity is back: the 'Visdeurbel' [fish doorbell]!
https://visdeurbel.nl/en/

Fish Doorbell – It's almost here! — The Fish Doorbell
Zie je een vis? Druk op de Visdeurbel dan opent onze sluiswachter de sluis en kunnen de vissen doorzwemmen.

Legal Victory Protects Florida Wetlands https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/legal-victory-protects-florida-wetlands-2026-03-27/

Legal Victory Protects Florida Wetlands
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled today that permits to build in Florida wetlands should stay in the hands of federal regulators rather than the state. The ruling upholds a 2020 decision by U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss that the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act when the agencies approved Florida’s wetlands permitting program in 2020.

"The sensory superpower that lets seals hunt in total darkness"
#Seals #Animals
https://www.

The sensory superpower that lets seals hunt in total darkness | The Optimist Daily
A harbor seal named Filou just showed how seals track fish through dark, murky water by reading the invisible hydrodynamic trails they leave behind.

A minimal wake-vortex model explains formation flight of flapping birds
Olivia Pomerenk, Kenneth S. Breuer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22043 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.22043 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.22043
arXiv:2602.22043v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Collective patterns of motion emerge across biological taxa: insects swarm, fish school, and birds flock. In particular, large migratory birds form strikingly ordered V-shaped formations, which experiments and direct numerical simulations have demonstrated provide substantial energetic benefits during long-distance flight. However, the precise aerodynamic and morphological mechanisms underlying these benefits remain unclear. In this work, we develop a reduced-order model of the wake-vortex interactions between two flapping birds flying in tandem. The model retains essential unsteady flapping dynamics while remaining computationally tractable. By optimizing over a six-dimensional state space, which comprises the follower's three-dimensional relative position and three independent flapping parameters, we identify the energetically optimal leader-follower configuration of northern bald ibises. The predicted optimum agrees quantitatively with live-bird measurements. Because of its simplicity, the model allows for direct interrogation of the physical mechanisms responsible for this optimum. In particular, it isolates precisely how the follower's wing kinematics interact with the leader's wake to enhance aerodynamic efficiency. The model predicts an 11% reduction in total mechanical power for a follower in formation flight -- consistent with experimental estimates -- and shows that this saving arises from reductions in both induced and profile power, dominated by decreased profile power enabled primarily through reduced flapping amplitude and, secondarily, reduced upstroke flexion. These results provide a mechanistic explanation for the structure of V-formations and offer new insight into the aerodynamic principles governing collective flight.
toXiv_bot_toot

keytool decodes the keystore, the cert passes tests and while sslchecker.com says it is missing Org, it says the same about every cert we've used the past three years.
I do, I truly, honestly and with all my heart loath this industry that has eaten my life for 50 years with shit like this. Always shit like this, ten million variables where just one is off by a little bit, go fish. I fucking hate it, I want out.
But I also hate to leave a friend in a lurch, out of business, for reasons unknown, so torn between "fuck it" and "crying".
I was just updating a fucking certificate.

#caturday

"Finding Nemo, losing stripes: Baby clownfish shed bars to secure their social rank"
#Oceans #Fish

Joseph Allen "Country Joe" McDonald (January 1, 1942 – March 7, 2026) lead singer and co-founder of the 1960s psychedelic folk-rock group Country Joe and the Fish.
Country Joe & the Fish - VietNam Song - Live Woodstock 1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft0vkKCadgk

There is no such thing as ethically sourced (animal specie) in animal agri/aquaculture.
MSC’s ‘blue tick’ scheme creates illusion of ethically sourced fish, study claims https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20

Fish. Lips.
https://vimeo.com/1180173970?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci
alt video: from a camera on a stick in the water behind a boat, three interested fish, swimming back and forth and quite close to the camera.

Hat tip to Cascadia Journal
Parksville, BC
Entrepreneurs who come from a long line of commercial fishers are capitalizing on an ocean harvest that has nothing to do with catching fish.
Kelp is presenting growing possibilities on international markets, contributing a valuable, self-regenerating ingredient to agriculture, food products and even the skin care industry.

English muffins (a little too dense) with egg and bacon, tea and coffee. Some smoked fish for the muffins. Azul as our game last night, soccer tonight! #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/NBM9tkJsjkyrwBVu6

#FotoVorschlag: Bodenmarkierungen
Photo suggestion: ground markings

Art by: https://www.tumblr.com/fernsnailz

i'm friends with a doctoral student from chengdu and he brought me a sichuan-style sea bass to celebrate the new year!

"World’s Freshwater Fish in Crisis, U.N. Report Warns"
#UN #UnitedNations #Fish #Environment

I spent the last week in a PTSD intensive therapy. We had no phones or devices of any type, no radios, no contact for 5 days
I'm slowly transcribing and editing my journal. This is the first entry, from the first night.
It should probably go without saying that there are a number of triggering things here, mainly around family violence and self-harm
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/fish-ptss-5-day-0

Took my grandma to one of those fish spas where the tiny fish eat all the dead skin.
It took forever, but $90 was way cheaper than a funeral.

🔥 Snow flies produce bursts of heat and proteins to avoid freezing, new study finds
#animals

Snow flies produce bursts of heat and proteins to avoid freezing, new study finds
In a new study, Northwestern University scientists explored how snow flies—small, wingless insects that crawl across snow to find mates and lay eggs—survive in freezing cold temperatures. They discovered this snow-dwelling fly uses a surprising combination of strategies: it generates its own body heat like a mammal and produces antifreeze proteins like an Arctic fish.

garcia, hart, kaukonen, & casady jam at the final show by the original country joe & the fish lineup, fillmore west, january '69 (headlining over led zeppelin). more coherent than you'd expect! https://youtu.be/ayCupYA4DBM
@corry342.bsky.social pieces it together:

When the Last Tree Is Cut Down, the Last Fish Eaten, and the Last Stream Poisoned, You Will Realize That You Cannot Eat Linear Algebra

#22 on our countdown is the 893 km La Grande River, which drains a modest watershed of 97,600 km2 in Quebec and flows westward into James Bay. In French, La Grande Rivière, and its original Cree name, Chisasibi, both mean "great river") and it is the second-longest river in the province. The river has been extensively developed as a source of hydroelectric power by Hydro-Québec, starting in 1974 a total of 8 hydroelectric dams have been built on the waterway. As a result of the development projects, the Cree people of the region lost parts of their traditional hunting and trapping territories. Organic mercury levels increased in the fish, which forms an important part of their diet, as the organic material is trapped by the rising waters in the new reservoirs.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadaRivers
https://chisasibi.ca/about-chisasibi/

"Biodegradable Plastics Made from Fish Waste Offer New Path to Sustainable Materials"
#Plastic #Plastics
https://

Biodegradable Plastics Made from Fish Waste Offer New Path to Sustainable Materials | Happy Eco News
An MIT senior developed biodegradable plastic made from fish waste, transforming fish scales into compostable thin films suitable for single-use products.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
School of Fish:
🎵 3 Strange Days
#SchoolofFish
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Zd1hLu5AswuxE7xAYLvc9

Scientists Gave a Bunch of Salmon Cocaine. This Is What Happened Next. https://www.404media.co/scientists-gave-a-bunch-of-salmon-cocaine-this-is-what-happened-next/

Consumers urged to ‘completely avoid’ UK-caught cod as population plunges | Fishing | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/09/consumers-urged-to-completely-avoid-uk-caught-cod-as-population-pl…

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 78 nodes and 181 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

The Making Of One Nation
From a fish and chip shop in regional Queensland to the heart of Australian politics: this is the unlikely story of the country's most controversial minor party...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-ma

Touchy da fishy

Several years ago my daughter bought several good vanilla pods. She had a good mason jar with a rubber gasket seal. Added vodka and she let it mature several months before giving it to me. Beats store bought vanilla hands down. Every year just after Easter I buy three more pods to add the top the jar with good vodka. Stored in a dark corner of the pantry and by Thanksgiving it is ready for use. Next year I fish out all of the old pods and buy six fresh pods.
Wife loves the real s…

@… no toor with Kubuntu 🙂
Incidentally the reason for me switching to fish is muscle memory.
csh/tcsh autocompletion (if that's what it was) worked nicely for me in FreeBSD.
I didn't get that niceness in Kubuntu with bash, didn't get it after switching to csh/tcsh, and I'm too lazy to figure out how to get the niceness so I sw…

Perplexity asks a US judge to force Dow Jones and the New York Post to hand over the queries they made to "fish" for a basis to sue for copyright infringement (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/p

Perplexity claims News Corp tried to 'entrap' chatbot to make copyright case
Perplexity has accused News Corp's Dow Jones and the New York Post of carrying out a fishing exercise for their AI copyright claim.

Joseph Allen "Country Joe" McDonald (January 1, 1942 – March 7, 2026) lead singer and co-founder of the 1960s psychedelic folk-rock group Country Joe and the Fish.
Country Joe & the Fish - VietNam Song - Live Woodstock 1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft0vkKCadgk

Microplastics found in a third of surveyed fish off the coasts of remote Pacific Islands https://phys.org/news/2026-01-microplastics-surveyed-fish-coasts-remote.html

Microplastics found in a third of surveyed fish off the coasts of remote Pacific Islands
A third of fish living in the remote coastal waters of the Pacific Island Countries and Territories are contaminated with microplastics, with especially high rates in Fiji, according to an analysis published in PLOS One by Jasha Dehm at the University of the South Pacific and colleagues.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Pharcyde:
🎵 Otha Fish (L.A. Jay remix)
#ThePharcyde
https://thysenterprise.bandcamp.com/track/the-pharcyde-otha-fish-thijsenterprise-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1KcZRMyC2tSs3CMIsng9wx

Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced.
But where does that lost tire material go?
The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways,
where the tiny microplastic particles from the tires’ synthetic rubber carry several chemicals that can transfer into fish, crabs and perhaps even the people who eat them.
Millions of metric tons of plastic waste enter the world’s oceans every year.
In recent times, tire wear particles have been found t…

One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources revealed – and it’s not straws or bags
Tire wear particles have been found to account for about 45 per cent of all microplastics in both terrestrial and aquatic systems

In 1975(76?) I went to a fish fry on the shores of Lake Erie just west of Cleveland. A celebration of once again being able to eat the perch from the cleaned up Lake Erie.
What happened (or, more like didn't happen)?
Troubled Lake Erie is being transformed into a vast water research facility

In 1975(76?) I went to a fish fry on the shores of Lake Erie just west of Cleveland. A celebration of once again being able to eat the perch from the cleaned up Lake Erie.
What happened (or, more like didn't happen)?
Troubled Lake Erie is being transformed into a vast water research facility

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 107 nodes and 966 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SaturdayMorning
Noël Coward:
🎵 Any Little Fish
#NoëlCoward

Vaupés River contamination identified near rapidly expanding Amazonian town https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/vaupes-river-contamination-identified-near-rapidly-expanding-amazonian-town/

Vaupés River contamination identified near rapidly expanding Amazonian town
VAUPÉS, COLOMBIA — Traditionally, for members of the Indigenous Macaquiño community in the southeastern Colombian Amazon, the Vaupés River is not just a source of water, but a living being that must be respected. It supports all kinds of life, including fish, which have sustained the community for generations. Now, as a nearby Amazonian town […]

Why are you mostly being sold Alaska-caught salmon in British Columbia?
Many critics argue Alaska takes too many salmon and is harming populations — but it’s easier to find Alaska-caught fish in B.C. stores and Alaskan salmon fisheries have global sustainability certification that B.C. salmon fisheries don’t. What gives?
https:/…

Why are we eating Alaska salmon in B.C.? | The Narwhal
B.C. catches a fraction of the salmon caught by Alaska — but none of the province’s fisheries have a global sustainability certification

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
While I have often talked about eutrophication (high nutrients leading to excess algae production), systems worldwide have also undergone oligotrophication: productivity reduction from nutrient decline or ecosystem changes. While lakes becoming clearer is often viewed positively, this results in food web alterations and loss of culturally and commercially importa…

@… I'll probably revert to bash for the major upgrade from 25.10 to 26.04.
Then again fish.

A gray wolf wandered into
Los Angeles county
for the first time in more than a century on Saturday morning.
“This is the most southern verified record of a gray wolf in modern times,”
Axel Hunnicutt, gray wolf coordinator for the California department of fish and wildlife, said.
The three-year-old black coat female, known as #BEY03F, crossed into LA county around 6am on 7 Febru…

"China’s Decade-Long Yangtze River Fishing Ban Reverses 70 Years of Decline"
#China #Environment
https://

China's Decade-Long Yangtze River Fishing Ban Reverses 70 Years of Decline | Happy Eco News
Yangtze River fishing ban recovery demonstrates fish biomass doubling and 13% diversity increase within five years as China's unprecedented 10-year moratorium on commercial fishing reverses 70 years of biodiversity decline with a US$3 billion fisher transition program.

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 94 nodes and 424 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

UK Government Expected To Ban Chicken Nuggets In School Dinners #AnimalRights

UK Government Expected To Ban Chicken Nuggets In School Dinners
The UK government is expected to announce a ban on fried foods such as chicken nuggets and battered fish and chips in school dinners

"Cocaine pollution in rivers and lakes may disrupt behaviour of salmon, study finds"
#Fish #Environment #Pollution #Water

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 110 nodes and 718 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

“Selfless move from Mary Peltola” - Carville
James Carville here, urgently asking you to support Mary Peltola’s campaign. 
I’ve spent nearly 50 years electing Democrats and winning tough elections across the country, so please take my word for it:
We gotta get serious about Alaska’s U.S. Senate race. 
Alaska is Democrats’
VERY BEST CHANCE to take back the Senate majority,
and Mary needs YOUR help to win.
It was a selfless move from Mary Peltola to ju…

Home - Mary Peltola
It's simple: The fight for Fish, Family, Freedom depends on fixing the rigged system in DC.

Anger over Scottish salmon farm inspections amid 35m unexpected fish deaths https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/05/more-than-35m-unexpected-salmon-deaths-at-scottish-farms-sparks-outcry

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 78 nodes and 181 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

China’s Yangtze River shows signs of remarkable recovery after fishing ban https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/12/china-yangtze-river-recovery-after-fishing-ban

"China’s Yangtze River shows signs of remarkable recovery after fishing ban"
#China #Environment #Rivers

Desert Songbirds Move Toward California Protected Status https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/desert-songbirds-move-toward-california-protected-status-2026-04-16/

Desert Songbirds Move Toward California Protected Status
SACRAMENTO, Calif.— In response to Center for Biological Diversity petitions, the California Fish and Game Commission voted today to protect both the Bendire’s thrasher and LeConte’s thrasher as candidate species under the state’s Endangered Species Act.

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 95 nodes and 565 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

"Small ray of hope for Sri Lanka’s sawfish, now feared ‘functionally extinct’"
#SriLanka #Fish #Animals

Small ray of hope for Sri Lanka’s sawfish, now feared ‘functionally extinct’
COLOMBO — The sawfish, a large ray, is easily recognized by its long, flattened snout edged with sharp, tooth-like projections that form a distinctive “saw,” technically known as a rostrum. Despite being one of the ocean’s most extraordinary creatures, very little research has been carried out on sawfish in Sri Lanka. This gap in knowledge […]

Ghana declares its first marine protected area #Ghana

Ghana declares its first marine protected area
Ghana declares its first marine protected area at Cape Three Points, aiming to restore depleted fish stocks, strengthen fisheries management, and boost food security.

Mangrove forests are short of breath, researchers warn #Mangrove

Mangrove forests are short of breath, researchers warn
The tidal environment of mangrove forests serves as nurseries for many fish species. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have measured carbon dioxide and oxygen levels in 23 of the world's mangrove areas. The study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, sends out a warning that these ecosystems are increasingly threatened as sea temperatures continue to rise.

"One-Third of Pacific Island Fish Contaminated With Microplastics"
#Microplastics #Plastic #Plastics #Fish

One-Third of Pacific Island Fish Contaminated With Microplastics - Inside Climate News
From the coral-covered coastlines of Tonga to the remote sandy atolls of Tuvalu, microscopic synthetic fibers are infiltrating the region’s species and food systems. One-third of fish living in Pacific island waters—like Fiji’s thumbprint emperor or Vanuatu’s dash-and-dot goatfish—are contaminated with microplastics, according to data published Wednesday by researchers at the University of the South […]

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