AgriLife Researchers Address Declining Freshwater Mussel Population Statewide

By Gabe SaldanaUSA.- Jennifer Morton hovers methodically over a row of clear, water-filled containers on a tight-spaced industrial shelving system. She plucks a mollusk from ...

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Fixing the role of nitrogen in coral bleaching

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.- Excess nitrogen is shown to disrupt coral-algae symbiosis, triggering bleaching even in the absence of heat and light stress. With coral ...

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Scientists Launch Global Agenda to Curb Social and Human Rights Abuses in the Seafood Sector

Arlington, USA.- As the United Nations Oceans Conference convenes in New York, a new paper calls on marine scientists to focus on social issues such ...

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Rising sea temperatures put seafood quality at risk

Australia.- Climate change and ocean acidification has the potential to reduce the quality of seafood, with flow-on effects for future food security and ecosystem stability, ...

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GAA Report Identifies Steps for Better Management Of Harmful Algal Blooms

USA.- The Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) on May 30 published a report detailing the series of massive harmful algal blooms (HABs) that impacted southern Chile ...

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Mystery of electric fish genus solved, new species identified

By Krishna RamanujanIthaca, USA.- Solving a 140-year old taxonomic puzzle, Cornell researchers have identified and described a new species of electric fish from the Ogooué ...

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Great uncertainty in the largest dried and salted cod market

Norway.- Norwegian exporters of dried and salted cod have in recent years experiences a marked fall in their largest market, Brazil. The reason is the ...

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Scottish Shellfish Farm Production Survey 2016

Scotland.- In 2016, 7,732 tonnes of mussels were produced for the table market, this is the highest level of mussel production recorded in Scotland;

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Like a slice of pizza, a curvature could give fish fins their strength

Providence, USA.- Pizza enthusiasts know well that a simple u-shaped curvature at the crust can keep a thin slice from drooping over when lifted from ...

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USGS Finds 28 Types of Cyanobacteria in Florida Algal Bloom

USA.- A new U.S. Geological Survey study that looked at the extensive harmful algal bloom that plagued Florida last year found far more types of ...

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