Posts by Tag: fish
Scientists Expand Fish Memory From 3 Seconds to Several Months
Posted on Jan 18, 2010 by Jennifer Lance.
Fish are often considered lesser beings. In fact, pesce vegetarians justify eating fish because they don’t consider them to feel pain and suffering, and they think it is better for their health. New research challenges prior assumptions about fish, including their memory. The long standing myth that fish can only recall something for three seconds has been disproved.
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Tilapia Takes a Toll on Fiji’s Native Fish
Posted on Jan 15, 2010 by Derek Markham.
The native fish of the waterways of Fiji are battling an invasive species, one advocated by many sustainable fish farming proponents: tilapia. A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society found that streams with tilapia contained 11 fewer species of native fishes than those without, leading to speculation that the introduced species may be feeding on the larvae and juvenile fish of native species.
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Traitor Joe’s: Greenpeace Rates Trader Joe’s Unsustainable Seafood Policies
Posted on Jul 10, 2009 by Derek Markham.
The environmental watchdog Greenpeace has gone after Trader Joe’s with a snarky campaign called Traitor Joe’s, complete with a website, a Traitor Joe’s Twitter account, and a singing fish telegram for consumers to let the company know how they feel about the store’s unsustainable seafood policies. According to the latest Sustainable Seafood Scorecard from Greenpeace, Trader Joe’s gets a big fat F, the worst of all national supermarket chains, for continuing to sell imperiled fish such as orange roughy, Chilean sea bass, and swordfish.
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New Documentary Provides an Inconvenient Truth for Fish
Posted on Jun 17, 2009 by Reenita Malhotra.
A new documentary film, End of the Line, released at cinemas nationwide on World Ocean Day (8th June), warns that overfishing the bluefin tuna could result in the end of seafood by 2048 because all fishing stocks will collapse as a result of overfishing.
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Cigarette Butts Kill Fish According to New Study
Posted on Jun 03, 2009 by Jennifer Lance.
One of the most common forms of litter are cigarette butts. Once these butts enter waterways, they become toxic to fish. According to a new study by San Diego Sate University (SDSU), filter-tipped cigarette butts are deadly to marine and freshwater fish. In fact, researchers would like to have the butts classified as hazardous waste.
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