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2/23/14
2/22/14
OREGON CHUB FIRST FISH TO BE TAKEN OFF ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST AFTER 21 YEARS - FRESH WATER MINNOW
SC MONITOR : OREGON MINNOW BOUNCES BACK FROM ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST
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... The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday that it was proposing that the Oregon chub was recovered, 21 years after it went on the endangered species list. The proposal will go through a 60-day public comment period before becoming final. The agency will monitor the fish for nine years to make sure populations continue to grow.
"We're not saying it won't need management," Paul Henson, Oregon director of Fish and Wildlife, said in an interview. "But they can leave the hospital and get out to be an outpatient." ...
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... The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday that it was proposing that the Oregon chub was recovered, 21 years after it went on the endangered species list. The proposal will go through a 60-day public comment period before becoming final. The agency will monitor the fish for nine years to make sure populations continue to grow.
"We're not saying it won't need management," Paul Henson, Oregon director of Fish and Wildlife, said in an interview. "But they can leave the hospital and get out to be an outpatient." ...
2/19/14
AXOLOH - TINY WATER MONSTER FISH - MAY BE EXTINCT
io9: MEXICO TINY WATER MONSTER MAY BE EXTINCT full article link - great picture!
...The iconic axolotl — a salamander-like creature capable of extraordinary regenerative abilities — has disappeared from its only known natural habitat in Mexico's few remaining lakes...
Biologist Luis Zambrano of Mexico's National Autonomous University says the most recent three-month attempt to net axolotls found not one of the creatures. He says researchers are planning a second three-month hunt for the creatures, which still survive in labs and breeding tanks...
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SIREN HERE : THE AXOLOTL does exist in tanks if not the wild. The question I have is, will this species ever be able to live in the wild again anywhere?
...The iconic axolotl — a salamander-like creature capable of extraordinary regenerative abilities — has disappeared from its only known natural habitat in Mexico's few remaining lakes...
Biologist Luis Zambrano of Mexico's National Autonomous University says the most recent three-month attempt to net axolotls found not one of the creatures. He says researchers are planning a second three-month hunt for the creatures, which still survive in labs and breeding tanks...
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SIREN HERE : THE AXOLOTL does exist in tanks if not the wild. The question I have is, will this species ever be able to live in the wild again anywhere?
2/18/14
STAR FISH PULLING OFF OWN ARMS - TURNING TO GOO! MYSTERY DISEASE HORROR!
LATIN POST - STARFISH MUTILATE THEMSLEVES THEN DIE full article
... mysterious health condition is actually causing starfish to tear themselves to pieces, literally.
Scientists with the United States Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center say the arms of infected starfish begin to twist and then crawl, pulling away from and eventually off of the bodies entirely.
To make things worse, the resulting holes, from which the starfish's innards are then spilling out, are not able to heal, due to the disease...
Divers and scientists first reported the macabre illness along the Washington state coast, although infected starfish have since been sighted in the waters of Alaska, as well as Southern California.
Scientists say they first detected the mass deaths among one star species, the sunflower starfish, last June.
Now the condition, dubbed "sea star wasting syndrome," has spread to 12 species, affecting stars in the wild and also in captivity, according to Jonathan Sleeman, director of the wildlife health center....
... mysterious health condition is actually causing starfish to tear themselves to pieces, literally.
Scientists with the United States Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center say the arms of infected starfish begin to twist and then crawl, pulling away from and eventually off of the bodies entirely.
To make things worse, the resulting holes, from which the starfish's innards are then spilling out, are not able to heal, due to the disease...
Divers and scientists first reported the macabre illness along the Washington state coast, although infected starfish have since been sighted in the waters of Alaska, as well as Southern California.
Scientists say they first detected the mass deaths among one star species, the sunflower starfish, last June.
Now the condition, dubbed "sea star wasting syndrome," has spread to 12 species, affecting stars in the wild and also in captivity, according to Jonathan Sleeman, director of the wildlife health center....
2/15/14
CUTTLEFISH COLOR CHANGES MAY PROVIDE TECHNOLOGY FOR BATTLEFIELD CAMOUFLAGE
UPI SCIENCE - CAMOUFLAGE INSPIRATION - CUTTLEFISH full article
... Nature solved the riddle of adaptive camouflage a long time ago," Harvard bioengineering Professor Kevin Kit Parker said. "Now the challenge is to reverse-engineer this system in a cost-efficient, synthetic system that is amenable to mass manufacturing." Neurall controlled pigmented organs called chromatophore allow a cuttlefish to change its color...
... Nature solved the riddle of adaptive camouflage a long time ago," Harvard bioengineering Professor Kevin Kit Parker said. "Now the challenge is to reverse-engineer this system in a cost-efficient, synthetic system that is amenable to mass manufacturing." Neurall controlled pigmented organs called chromatophore allow a cuttlefish to change its color...
2/12/14
SWEET PEA THE RAY SHARK GIVES BIRTH TO SEPTUPLETS - SIX LIVE - BORN DIFFERENT SIZES
DISCOVERY : CAPTIVE RAY SHARK GIVES BIRTH full article
A shark ray mom from the Newport Aquarium in Kentucky gave birth last Friday to seven pups, making her the first known shark ray to breed in captivity, according to the aquarium.
One of the pups, a little female, did not survive, but the rest did. “Sweet Pea” — the shark ray mom — now has three female pups and three males. One can only imagine that Sweet Pea is relieved … and tired. The birthing process took an arduous five hours.
At birth, the pups’ weight ranged from 2.1 to 2.4 pounds. The longest was 1 foot, 7.3 inches, and the shortest was 1 foot, 6.4 inches....Sweet Pea and her pups, however, are part of Newport Aquarium’s Shark Ray Breeding Program, which now has 10 shark rays in total — the most in the world for one institution.
A shark ray mom from the Newport Aquarium in Kentucky gave birth last Friday to seven pups, making her the first known shark ray to breed in captivity, according to the aquarium.
One of the pups, a little female, did not survive, but the rest did. “Sweet Pea” — the shark ray mom — now has three female pups and three males. One can only imagine that Sweet Pea is relieved … and tired. The birthing process took an arduous five hours.
At birth, the pups’ weight ranged from 2.1 to 2.4 pounds. The longest was 1 foot, 7.3 inches, and the shortest was 1 foot, 6.4 inches....Sweet Pea and her pups, however, are part of Newport Aquarium’s Shark Ray Breeding Program, which now has 10 shark rays in total — the most in the world for one institution.
2/10/14
EELGRASS RINGS CAUSED BY POISON NOT FAIRIES OR ALIENS
DISCOVERY - UNDEREATER FAIRY RINGS EXPLAINED full article
...The biologists concluded that the rings formed because of the radiating pattern in which the eelgrass grows — and dies when exposed to toxins. In the mud around the eelgrass, the scientists detected high levels of sulfide, a substance that's poisonous to eelgrass and can build up naturally in a chalky seabed like the one off Møn (or unnaturally when agricultural pollutants enter an ecosystem)...But biologists Marianne Holmer from University of Southern Denmark and Jens Borum from University of Copenhagen assure that the circles have "nothing to do with either bomb craters or landing marks for aliens."
...The biologists concluded that the rings formed because of the radiating pattern in which the eelgrass grows — and dies when exposed to toxins. In the mud around the eelgrass, the scientists detected high levels of sulfide, a substance that's poisonous to eelgrass and can build up naturally in a chalky seabed like the one off Møn (or unnaturally when agricultural pollutants enter an ecosystem)...But biologists Marianne Holmer from University of Southern Denmark and Jens Borum from University of Copenhagen assure that the circles have "nothing to do with either bomb craters or landing marks for aliens."
2/8/14
KELP WATCH 2014 UCLA and CAL STATE LONG BEACH SCIENTISTS CHECKING FOR RADIATION - FUKISAHAMA JAPAN DISASTER
FOX NEWS : KEP OFF CALIFORNIA COAST TO BE TESTED FOR RADIATION full article
... the Kelp Project is a research program launched by Steve Manley, a Cal State Long Beach biologist who has been studying the environmental impact of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that damaged the plant in March 2011.
MALIBU TIMES : MALIBU KEPT TO BE TESTED FOR RADIATION full article
... In California, kelp is at once admired for its underwater beauty, grumbled over as a beach obstacle and served up on dinner plates. Now it is being used in the name of science...A research team led by UCLA ecologist Peggy Fong will take 15-lb. samples at locations off Escondido Beach and a second site near County Line Beach sometime between Feb. 24 and March 5. More than 20 labs and universities will take place in a West Coast-wide effort called Kelp Watch 2014, testing 35 sites from Alaska to Baja.
... the Kelp Project is a research program launched by Steve Manley, a Cal State Long Beach biologist who has been studying the environmental impact of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that damaged the plant in March 2011.
MALIBU TIMES : MALIBU KEPT TO BE TESTED FOR RADIATION full article
... In California, kelp is at once admired for its underwater beauty, grumbled over as a beach obstacle and served up on dinner plates. Now it is being used in the name of science...A research team led by UCLA ecologist Peggy Fong will take 15-lb. samples at locations off Escondido Beach and a second site near County Line Beach sometime between Feb. 24 and March 5. More than 20 labs and universities will take place in a West Coast-wide effort called Kelp Watch 2014, testing 35 sites from Alaska to Baja.
2/7/14
ENDANGERED SPECIES - AN IMPORTANT ISSUE
While we're concerned about drought on land and having enough water for drinking, bathing, cooking... never mind watering lawns! And having enough fresh water so that farmers can water their crops and their animals will have enough too ... so we can eat... live... is of utmost importance, there is always evidence of environmental changes that effect FISH and SEA CREATURES in fresh and salt water. Over the next few days I'll be posting links to some important news articles that cover these issues.
2/6/14
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