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Exposure to warmer water can greatly increase the reproductive powers of the common pest fish gambusia, a new study shows…
The eighth meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission concluded in Guam on Friday 30 March 2012. Five hundred delegates from more than 40 countries argued for a week about how to reduce…
After the big wet, spare a thought for the health of your waterways and the substances that wash into them. Bacteria are important to the health of the waterways running through our backyards. As decomposers…
The cardinalfish has survived for 50 million years, but its most successful survival strategy could be undone by rapid global…
Researchers from the Agency of Science, Technology and Research in Singapore have analysed the nature of the “alarm substance…
Dredge ponds along the Swan coastal plane in Western Australia could become spawning grounds for the black-striped minnow…
Big fish, like coral trout, snappers and sweetlips, prefer sheltering under flat table corals rather than branching corals…
Researchers have developed a way to identify conservation hotspots in the world oceans. These are areas where overfishing…
An increase of just 2 degrees centigrade could devastate “anti-freeze” fish in the Southern Oceans. Nototheniods is a species…
“Finish your dinner or there’ll be no dessert for you!” – it’s a cry heard at dinner tables around the world, as mothers battle to convince their sons about the importance of eating properly. Sorry lads…
Two distinct populations of rainbow trout – one in Alaska, the other in Idaho – share a genetic trait that could have huge…
Tool use among fish is more common than previously thought, say researchers from Macquarie University. While tool use is…
Salmon can be artificially stimulated to leap through water, scientists have shown for the first time. Researchers kept the…
Hermaphroditic cleaner shrimp attack and kill each other when in groups larger than two, new research from the University…
Water exploding from the Jindabyne Dam into the Snowy River made for compelling viewing in recent TV news reports. As well as being good TV, this water release highlighted the importance of releases in…
Piranhas have been found to bark by a team of biologists from the University of Liège, Belgium. The scientists used a hydrophone…
A fish’s personality may determine how it is captured. The association between personality differences and the capture-technique…
Overfishing is a serious problem on many of the world’s coral reefs – a problem that is generally attributed to too many people. But our research has found that economic development, rather than population…
Image courtesy of Noel Burkead. A highly invasive fish that can tolerate and adapt to a range of environmental conditions…
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