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Illegal Fisheries Threatening Shark Conservation in African Waters
Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fisheries Threatening Shark Conservation in African Waters Revealed from High Levels of Shark Mislabelling in Ghana Narkie Akua Agyeman, Carmen Blanco-Fernandez, Sophie Leonie Steinhaussen, Eva Garcia-Vazquez, Gonzalo Machado-Schiaffino ABSTRACT: Mislabelling of fish and fish products has attracted much attention over the last decades, following public awareness of the practice of substituting
New Bull Shark Record Certified in Mississippi
Press Release Mississippi Department of Marine Resources 22. July 2021 — — — — — — — — MDMR certifies five state records BILOXI, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources certified five state fishing records this month. Mason Watts, 12, of Long Beach set the youth record for Red Snapper (Litjanus campechanus) with
Why are some fish warm-blooded? Research points to a crucial speed advantage
Published on 25 Jul, 2021 at 11:51 in Research | Viewed times | No Comments
News Release Trinity College Dublin 1st July 2021 — — — — — — — — New research from marine biologists offers answers to a fundamental puzzle that had until now remained unsolved: why are some fish warm-blooded when most are not? It turns out that while (warm-blooded) fish able to regulate their own body
Endothermy makes fishes faster but does not expand their thermal niche
Endothermy makes fishes faster but does not expand their thermal niche Lucy Harding, Andrew Jackson, Adam Barnett, Ian Donohue, Lewis Halsey, Charles Huveneers, Carl Meyer, Yannis Papastamatiou, Jayson M. Semmens, Erin Spencer, Yuuki Watanabe, Nicholas Payne ABSTRACT: Regional endothermy has evolved several times in marine fishes, and two competing hypotheses are generally proposed to explain