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    0 starskristen | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 21 2007 | news, fish, ocean
    Jellyfish Wipe-Out £1m Salmon Farm |Sky News|UK News

    Wow ... that's A LOT of jellyfish ... 10 square miles and 35 feet deep?!?

    Quoted: Sky News - More than 100,000 salmon worth over £1m have been killed in a freak jellyfish attack.
    It has wiped out Northern Ireland's only salmon farm and owners are now facing ruin.
    The massive invasion happened at Glenarm Bay and Red Bay, Cushendun, off the Co Antrim coast.
    Billions of small jellyfish called Mauve Stingers were involved - they stung and then stressed the salmon which were being kept in cages about a mile out into the Irish Sea.

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    0 starskristen | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 16 2007 | fish, news, science
    If it's any consolation, fish get insomnia too - Yahoo! News

    The thing that's not a consolation is that some insomnia may be genetic which means that there's not much we can do about it at this point.

    Quoted: Fish might not have eyelids, but they do sleep, and some suffer from insomnia, scientists reported on Monday.

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    0 starskristen | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 01 2007 | sharks, fish, news
    Aquarium gains two new whale sharks - CNN.com

    Okay ... This MAY get me to visit Atlanta.

    Quoted: Two new whale sharks arrived at the world's largest aquarium Friday.

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    0 starskristen | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 30 2007 | fish, science, news, food web
    Overfishing of sharks makes scallops vanish: study - Yahoo! News

    Ahh ... the food web. Didn't we learn about this in elementary school? Why is it news to people that removing a lead predator will have effects down the system?

    Quoted: With most of the great predatory sharks -- bull, great white, dusky and hammerhead -- gone from northwest Atlantic waters, the rays and skates the sharks normally feed on had a population explosion, the scientists said in the journal Science.

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    0 starskristen | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 30 2006 | news, fish
    Talking fish: Wide variety of sounds discovered - LiveScience - MSNBC.com

    I think this article should be used by kids whose parents are trying to force fish on them as a "quiet pet". In all my time cleaning fish tanks, though, I never heard them make a peep.

    Quoted: Increasingly scientists are discovering unusual mechanisms by which fish make and hear secret whispers, grunts and thumps to attract mates and ward off the enemy.

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