Tag: Fish - Page 6
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Istanbul Celebrates New Hope for a Favorite Fish With First-Annual 'Lüfer Festival'
Istanbul marked its first 'Lüfer Bayramı' (Bluefish Holiday) this weekend with fishing competitions, environmental talks, and storytelling by fishermen who have experienced 50 years of ups and downs off the coast of Turkey's largest city.
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Target Commits to 100% "Sustainable & Traceable" Seafood by 2015 (Infographic)
With the debt crisis and energy constraints putting a serious question mark over the very notion of economic growth, it will be interesting to see how well big box retailers and globalized supply chains weather the coming
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The Week in Animal News: Man Kills Entire Pelican Colony, Sharks at Golf Course, and More (Slideshow)
The arrival of thousands of pelicans could annoy just about anyone, but few resort to a mass killing to deal with the "problem." That's what one Minnesota farmer did this week, and he now faces fines of $15,000 and six months in
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The Week in Pictures: Solar London Bridge, Translucent 'Chicken Chapel,' and More (Slideshow)
London has announced grand plans to build the world's largest solar bridge, which will generate 900,000 kilowatts of electricity every year and provide nearly 50 percent of the energy needed to power the central London railway
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The Week in Animal News: Surfers Save Shark, Skinned Alive for Fake Uggs, and More (Slideshow)
It's been a good week for sharks -- a baby great white was rescued by Venice beach surfers, the world's largest shark sanctuary was declared, and faux shark fin soup may be catching on.
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The Week in Animal News: Melting Zombie Caterpillars, Self-Cloning Jellyfish, and More (Slideshow)
Scientists have made some startling discoveries in the animal world this week -- from a virus that causes caterpillars to turn into melting zombies to a lonely jellyfish that has produced hundreds of clones of itself.
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Another Coral Reef Fish Uses Tool To Help It Eat (Video)
A couple months ago it was revealed that the blackspot tuskfish exhibits basic tool use to help it eat--picking up a clam and using a rock the help open it--and there were photographs to prove it. Now we have video of another species of wrasse, the
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Lonely Jellyfish Produces Hundreds of Clones of Itself
When you can clone yourself, you never have to be alone -- at least that's what marine biologists at Australia's Townsville aquarium are discovering. Recently, an injured Cassiopea jellyfish that had been kept alone in its own
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Un-TreeHugger: World's Biggest Sushi Overload (Video)
With over 75 percent of the world's oceans being overfished and knowing the large carbon footprint of sushi, it's hard to be a green sushi-lover nowadays.
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The Week in Animal News: Drunk Elk Stuck in Tree, Famous Penguin Feared Dead, and More (Slideshow)
It's not exactly easy to free a drunk elk from a tree, we learned this week.
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WWF Encouraging Destructive Shrimp Farms?
It's true that shrimp farming has become so devastating to the environment that almost any standards created for the industry will be an improvement. But that doesn't mean they will be sustainable or that
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The Week in Animal News: Bear Drives a Prius, Suffocating Fish and More (Slideshow)
It's been a rough week overall for animals on TreeHugger: a bear totaled a Toyota Prius his first time behind the wheel, fish are suffocating in the Texas drought, and a seagull was kicked to death in New York by a man "walking for
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124,000 Fish Suffocate to Death in Texas Heat
Photo: GrapevineTxOnline.com / cc As Texas continues to suffer from the worst one-year drought on record along with scorchingly high temperatures, area lakes might seem like the best places to find refuge from the heat, but apparently not for fish.
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GPS-Bearing Invasive Trout Are Used as Moles to Find, Destroy Their Own Eggs
Invasive species can be seen in two ways: as winning the struggle for life by out-evolving competing species, or as upsetting a precarious balance of biodiversity. The United States Geological
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More People Eating Alternative Fish as Fish Fight Gains Momentum in the UK
In January, national treasure, chef and writer Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall spearheaded a campaign called "Fish Fight" in response to the "insane waste" caused by North Sea fishermen throwing back almost a million dead and dying fish
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Mysterious Orange Goo on Alaskan Shores Turns Out to Be Possibly Toxic Fish Eggs
This one sounds like the beginning of a B movie- last week, the residents of Kivalina, Alaska were surprised to find a mysterious orange goo washing up on their shores. It was determined that
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Atlantic Salmon Returns to Credit River After 100-Year Absence
Because we can't write only about bad news...While it seems like Pacific salmon off the West coast of Canada is in serious trouble (and scientists who study it are possibly getting muzzled), there are some good news coming from the
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It's Not Just Asian Carp: U.S. Identifies 40 High-Risk Species
Concerned about Asian carp? Meet the invasive cousins, you might say, of the monster fish. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released a white paper on 40 high-risk species to watch out for,
